Shipmates San Clemente
"Once Upon A Time - Long Long Ago"
"China's Song"
Pictures Of The Week
Remembering Old Shanghai - 1945

Faded Memories Passing By


left to right
Gerald Tester, Calvin Sommer
Officer, Chinese Nationalist Army
Warren Walker, Blaine Gilmore


"A Toast"

For the days now in our past, my ShipMates
For the days now in our past.
I'll drink a toast of kind remembrance
For the days now in our past.

"Auld Lang Syne"
Guy Lombardo

ShipMates

"Once Upon A Time"
We always laughed as though Tomorrow wasn't there
We were young and didn't have a care
..."Once Upon A Time" ...

"China's Song"
The song is in a Loop Mode.

Courtesy Of May May

Hi Sailor Boy

MAP OF DOWNTOWN SHANGHAI - November 1945

1. New Asia Hotel
2. Embankment Building
3. Navy Motor Pool
4. Broadway Mansions
5. Astor House (NABU 13)
6. Capitol Theater
7. Navy Y.M.C.A.
8. Navy Supply
9. Glen Line Building

10. Grand Theater
11. Park Hotel
12. Foreign Y.M.C.A.
13. Pacific Hotel
14. Navy Officer's Club
15. Cathay Hotel
16. Chocolate Shop
17. Chase National Bank
18. Palace Hotel

19. Customs Jetty
20. Metropol Hotel
21. Cable Office Warehouse
22. American Club
23. Development Building
24. Hamilton House
25. Y.M.C.A.
26. Wheelock Building
27. Stars and Stripes
28. Nanking Theater

Custom Jetty #19 - Whangpoo River
Shanghai, China  1945 - 1946

The Ugly American
Shanghai, China .. 1945 - 1946
Number 19, Custom Jetty

As I Remember

All American Sailors stationed on ships anchored in the Whangpoo River will remember the Custom Jetty.

When the Curfew clock tolled......The streets leading to the Custom Jetty would be covered by the white sailor hats converging on the Jetty and the Liberty boats lined up at the Jetty to take the mostly drunken sailors back to their ship.

Not a pretty picture.....of drunken sailors and the SPs (Shore Patrol) trying to make sure the drunken sailor got on the correct liberty boat to his ship......

The New & The Old Sounds Of Shanghai

New Shanghai - Teresa Teng
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This piece is quite famous among all of China, old and new. In the movie, The Joy Luck Club, this song can be heard in the background of a dance scene; it originated sometime in the first half of the 20th century.

Old Shanghai - Folk Song
Chinese Melody
Chinese Happy New Year


"Once UpOn A Time"

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