ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER says:
One of the joys of having been stationed in Japan for over two years was that the dollar was worth 360 yen at that time, but it was the people, always polite, nice and helpful. Not once in 28 months did I ever have a bad experience and I wandered off into the depths of Tokyo in the middle of the night. The streetcars were almost like an amusement park ride, especially late at night around the Bund in Yokohama. They would get up some real speed, sparks would fly and the entire care would shake, rattle and roll. Yes, for ten yen I could ride all over. I just got on the streetcars and let them take me wherever. For a young guy 19, Japan was like one big holiday without end. Unfortunately, my tour ended. See my BLOGABOUTJAPAN for more about streetcars.
ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER says:
The main street of Tokyo, it was a
"must see" for me.
I clearly remember my New Year's eve at an expensive and upscale club on the Ginza on New Year's eve of 1961/1962.
This was before I met the young lady of my dreams, so I spent the evening with one of my best Navy friends. Shortly after our big party on that New Year's eve, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant-Junior Grade and sent to Naval Aviator's flight school in Pensacola. Had my eye sight been 20/20, I would have enjoyed the same duty, but I would never have met the young lady that still makes my life sweet by simply remembering her.
Life is full of joys and contradictions, but I must accredit much to Fate, otherwise my sanity would have left me sitting beneath the bridge in San Pedro, a wretch of a man with too many heartaches to endure.
The Ginza, with its many lights must surely be quite different today than it was on New year's Eve of 1961.
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