| Home | | | Back | | | Page #4 |
| NSGA Cape Chiniak, Kodiak, Alaska .. Feb 1955 - Feb 1956 |
| Photos/Narrative from Jerry Argo |
| Please scroll-down for Page #3 of the collection. Click-on each small photo to enlarge. |
|
The dining room was the center of our activities in early dark days of the year. Games of poker, chess, puzzles, PingPong, reading, music listening, conversation, and sometimes boredom. Late night found us younger guys laughing and making too much noise for the Petty Officers sleeping in their quarters located over the dining area. Chief Kopitsch would show up at the door and remark "OK Argo you guys are getting to noisy". My voice was the one he could always hear penetrating the overhead. |
|
|
|
Back ? ? Briscoe, Finegan, Dickson, Argo, Moore |
Mitchell, ?, Dickson, Chief Kopitsch |
 |
 |
| ? | Kopitsch, Jerome, ? |
 |
 |
| Moore, ?, Argo, ? |
|
C. T. Moore loved to regale us with stories of what he had done in his life, college graduate, etc, at the ripe old age of 22. Figured up once that he would have been 26 to 28 years old if he had done every thing he said. He was a great guy and his stories were harmless though.
Chief Kopitsch taught several of us to play chess. It was many games played nightly before I was ever able to |
 |
 |
|
The hockey games and ice skating was great fun but injury prone with hip pointers being the most common suffered. |
 |
 |
 |
| Mitchell was from Seattle and an expert skier | D.S. Mitchell |
'38 Chevy belonged to the Sta. and could be checked out for sight seeing |
 |
 |
| WWII truck we used for trip to pick up supplies | ? Argo ? was cutting hair when I arrived |
 |
 |
| Argo, Finegan I took over |
Then Hayward tried his hand. CWO R. P. Milham |
 |
 |
| Mitchell, Bonsor, Gotte | ?, ?, Mitchell Enlisted men dorm |
 |
 |
| Hayward | Finegan, ?, Jerome |
 |
 |
| Hosea Antonio Arollo BMSN | Joseph, ?, West, Hayward |
|
Arollo was a tuff little sucker from the streets of Los Angles. All his fingers were tattooed just above the large knuckle with some type of gang message. He could open a beer bottle with his teeth and loved to watch us recoil at the thought of broken teeth. |
 |
 |
|
Argo, Ace & Deuce Dogs belonged to Sta. also |
? |
 |
 |
| Proud day for Jerry Argo | ?, Argo |
|
We had a concession stand at the end of pool table room where we could purchase beer, cold drinks, candy bars and misc items. A larger building was built at the end of the loading dock in later years for a place to relax and was named Cape Chiniak Bar or either Holes End. Probably was renamed several times as time went by. |
 |
| "Mooch" |
| Home | | | Back | | | Page #4 |