Halfway Night, Casino Night
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Topic: Halfway Night, Casino Night
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Subject: Halfway Night, Casino Night
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 7:48am
FBM's had a patrol halfway celebration when the patrol was half over by schedule. Did the Fast Attacks also have one? Casino night was a gambling event, raising funds for the Rec Committee. Von Steuben Blue usually had two per run. Did the other boats follow this pattern in the seventies? How about the one armed bandit that lived on the barge in the yards? Just wondering how the Rec Committee's on other boats raised money?  ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
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Posted By: GaryKC
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 9:37am
We used to joke that, at our current rate of seemingly bullet proof behavior, none of us would ever reach 7 decades of life.......oh wait! Walt, you slippery old snipe  ------------- SS484 SS426 SSBN618 Joined this BBS: May 25 2007 Website http://www.usstusk.com" rel="nofollow - USS Tusk SS 426 |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 9:47am
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We had halfway nights on the 599 and 600. This was followed by a surf and turf meal. yes, lobster tails and steak. Sometimes each would get a can of beer. The rest of the halfway night was either a movie marathon or casino night, sometimes both. The 600 had a nickle slot machine between the tubes in MLMC. The proceeds were usually enough for a ship's party at the Groton Motor Inn during in port. It was a bitch to have a 6 hour watch during all this, usually reserved for the low man on the totem pole. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 9:57am
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While true that I made it to seven decades, it isn't from extreme caution. Thanks for the reminder of my Birthday date, I appreciate it. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
Posted By: Dave595
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 9:57am
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On PLUNGER (SSN-595) - did not know when halfway was so, no we did not have halfway nights like the boomers did. ------------- EM1(SS) USS PLUNGER (SSN-595) HOLLAND Club USSVI LIFE Member Blueback Base, Rogue-Umpqua Base, Olympic Peninsula Base |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 12:50pm
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What Dave595 said. Only sissies with a second crew to get home to knew when half way was. |
Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2017 at 2:18pm
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We celebrated Halfway night on the Edison with a Vegas-style extravaganza. The particular event depicted below transpired sometime in 1964, date and location classified. A special meal of Surf & Turf (Langosta [or rock lobster] & filet mignon) was enjoyed by one and all. Don't ask me where they got the filet mignon, but, needless to say, our cook, Red "Somebody whose name I can't recall", was a very popular individual. I think some cumshaw might have been involved in its acquisition. The moral: Never underestimate the trading power of a can of cashews. BTW, the sap sitting at the table about to lose his liberty money is me. Never could gamble worth a damn.  ------------- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2017 at 7:08am
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Stan, I didn't think you were ever that young....
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Posted By: Dr. Stan
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2017 at 2:44pm
Joe, I can hardly believe it myself. I have to get out old pictures to prove it.  I'm old enough to remember watching Eisenhower's swearing in ceremony on TV in 1953. The event that impressed me so much wasn't watching Eisenhower, but actually watching a real television. Even though the screen was a 4" x 8" black and white rectangle it was a sight to behold . . . to me at least. TV's were rare in that part of the world.  ------------- It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2017 at 7:24pm
I don't remember that, but same year, 1953, I remember sitting out in the family car in NYC with my father listening to the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We likely had no TV, or the event was not broadcast trans-atlantic, and I assume our inside radio wasn't working??? |
Dr. Stan... wrote:Posted By: GaryKC
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2017 at 11:05pm
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Can't be certain of my thoughts back then, my cells were real busy dividing like crazy. Early first trimester with Ike, late second trimester with Liz II. Rather confident from my perspective both would have been in black and white and amplitude modulation (AM) though, I'll bet it was around 98.6° and wet. ------------- SS484 SS426 SSBN618 Joined this BBS: May 25 2007 Website http://www.usstusk.com" rel="nofollow - USS Tusk SS 426 |