Nas Alameda pic

[Lonestar155]

For those that knew the surrounding area at NAS Alameda; you all remember how industrial the place was. Train yards everywhere, sea containers, slums, etc... This picture pretty much illustrates that. Fortunately, the air station was also surrounded by the most incredible views. To the west was both the Bay Bridge and in the distance was the Golden Gate Bridge. Lucky for those that flew out of there.

 

[nittany03]

I say we reopen it just to piss off the San Fran city council. Every time they pass a resolution on how battleships are evil warmongering machines, or how the Blues should stop coming to town, they get thumped the next morning.

 

[Lonestar155]

You bring up an interesting point. While the air station was open there was much support for the Navy being in the Bay Area. Up until around 1999-2000 a ship full of softies took over the Bay Area and have made it "soft". Catch my drift....

 

[BusyBee604]

Lucky...

For those that knew the surrounding area at NAS Alameda; you all remember how industrial the place was. Train yards everywhere, sea containers, slums, etc... This picture pretty much illustrates that. Fortunately, the air station was also surrounded by the most incredible views. To the west was both the Bay Bridge and in the distance was the Golden Gate Bridge. Lucky for those that flew out of there.

I was lucky enough to be based there from '58-'61 with VA-94/USS RANGER. What a great base to be stationed at. Friday night Happy Hour at the O-Club was legendary with the transient line jammed with USN/USAF aircraft every weekend.
Liberty was great in SF & Berkeley, we used to troll for lovelies in the Cal campus beer halls in dress blues. Was hard to strike out! If you tried that today, you'd be ripped from limb to limb...
The biggest "obstacle" was on every takeoff, to resist the urge to fly under the Bay Bridge.
In SF, Buena Vista's Irish Coffee & the Red Garter banjo band were weekend highlghts.
Sadly, the only thing left on the base today is the HORNET Carrier Museum. Thanks for stirring the memories, Lonestar!
BzB

 

[yodaears]

My pop was comptroller up there just before he retired in '89. He used to take me fishing along the taxi way that pic is taken near. I still remember thinking how cool it was to see A-4s taxi by with the canopy open and the pilots waving at me. Great memories!

 

[jollygreen07]

I was lucky enough to be based there from '58-'61 with VA-94/USS RANGER. What a great base to be stationed at. Friday night Happy Hour at the O-Club was legendary with the transient line jammed with USN/USAF aircraft every weekend.
Liberty was great in SF & Berkeley, we used to troll for lovelies in the Cal campus beer halls in dress blues. Was hard to strike out! If you tried that today, you'd be ripped from limb to limb...
The biggest "obstacle" was on every takeoff, to resist the urge to fly under the Bay Bridge.
In SF, Buena Vista's Irish Coffee & the Red Garter banjo band were weekend highlghts.
Sadly, the only thing left on the base today is the HORNET Carrier Museum. Thanks for stirring the memories, Lonestar!
BzB

God I was born waaay too late.

That sounds too good to be true...

 

[exhelodrvr]

Stationed there from 88-91; lived in the base housing on Yerba Buena Island. Our back porch view had Alcatraz and the GG Bridge in the center; Fisherman's Wharf - downtown SF on the left, and Marin County/Angel Island on the right!

It was a great place to be stationed, with (at that time) a lot of military bases - the Presidio, the Army housing on the Marin side of the GG Bridge, Mare Island, the Concord Weapons Station, Oakland Naval Hospital, the Oakland Army Supply Center, Moffett Field in San Jose, Treasure Island NS, the Coast Guard station on Yerba Buena, and Alameda, of course. And Travis, McClellan, and Mather AFBs not far away.

Beautiful flying, too, especially to the north, with almost all uncontrolled airspace.

 

[LazersGoPEWPEW]

I went there to see the USS Hornet Museum. Pretty nice area if it get dressed up again. One place that I really wish would come back to life. San Francisco is a great city minus the hippies.

 

[BigIron]

Some older and more recent pics of NAS Alameda. Scroll down midway until you find NAS Alameda...

 

[BACONATOR]

I say we line all the warships we can muster up along the San Fran bay, and turn all their "gadgets" on... even focus the quadrant on the land-mass alone.... Problem solved.

Then we let normal people live in that beautiful area. I love San Fran and which it wasn't inhabited by all those patchouli-oil-doused fucktards.

 

[MasterBates]

Josh, we don't have battleships anymore.

I know you are an ass and trash non tactical HSC dude.. But no more battlewagons.

 

[RHPF]

I attached a picture of NAS Alemeda from a HH-65 flight I was in; April, 2009. Despite being closed for quite a long time now, they have not made much progress on what to do with the land yet.

 

[BACONATOR]

Josh, we don't have battleships anymore.

I know you are an ass and trash non tactical HSC dude.. But no more battlewagons.

Semantics, I know. I meant to say warship. A boat is a boat. What are you... a SWO splitting hairs? Such are the mistakes made when browsing/posting on AW and looking at porn on the interwebs simultaneously... my bad.

 

[NavAir42]

I went there to see the USS Hornet Museum. Pretty nice area if it get dressed up again. One place that I really wish would come back to life. San Francisco is a great city minus the hippies.

Even the hippies aren't the worst part. Hippies by themselves are just hippies. I would call the worst part the militant liberal left that controls city hall. They're assholes who don't know their own elbow's from their butt holes.They give a great city a bad name. Enough said on that front.

San Francisco alone is a great city. I grew up in San Jose thanks to Moffett Field before moving to God's country in the Northwest. I got the chance to go back for Fleet Week while I was in VP-30 and had a blast. While it was a little sad that the average San Franciscan treated us as curiosities rather than the norm, they were by no means hostile or openly anti-Navy or military. I would kill to have Moffett open again and save it from NASA.

 

[feddoc]

Alameda, Mare Island, Treasure Island, Moffett Field, Concord, all distant, but pleasant, memories for the old guys.