man if Paramount Ranch was still a track I'd be there everyday hahah

The good old days

This is amazing. I'm guessing you were stationed on the Island.

Fresno destroyed itself

Love the old cars and everything about those years... tku👏👏Love the road side motels not like the ugly sky scrapers today...

This is the Tahoe I remember as a kid in the 60's and 70's.

The last picture is from "Catedral São Pedro de Alcântara", city of Petrópolis, about 45 miles from Rio de Janeiro.

I went there at least twice in the Seventies. Don't remember it well, but I do remember enjoying it.

Que Chrétiens! Quelle diversité! Bande de fachos!

Looks like AI generated crap.

my dad said he went to this as a kid and loved it,he also went on a school trip there and the animals would jump up on the bus to look at the windows and the they would feed the giraffes their lunches 😂

AFRTS? I hung out there occasionally with an airman/sgt (?), tried my hand at volunteering to read news/etc. but was never able to speak without letting my natural skepticism into my voice. Was deemed untrainable 🤓. Ironic that, cause when the CMSgt who ran the Det was going PCS, the base commander asked me (a SSgt with 6 years Svc) to write the Chief's Commendation Medal! I had been the Base Editor at my previous base and was a fair stick with a typewriter so got to write quite a few AFCM, MSM, and one Legion of Merit (for the base commander) while there. If anyone is alive and reading, I still remember the names of the 3 guys I hung out with, all SSgt, names: Richard Agbayni, Karl Kawamoto, and Willie Kusonoki. As you may have guessed, all were stationed at Hickam AFB and were able to finagle assignments to JI instead of Vietnam. Can't say I blame them.

beautiful

Estava lá,1968 São Cristovão.

I put in to get stationed there. Never happened. 😢

Foi um Rio que passou.😢

lovely video!

I was there in 1987 working on jcad. Have a lot of fond memories.

Were dependents allowed on the island or men only?

Good job! That's the way to do your videos! I did mine that way also!

Stellar footage! The CalNeva Lodge was a favorite getaway before it closed. The shots from the Lakeview Dining Room brought back memories. My wife and I were married in 1998. We spent our honeymoon at lodge. Sinatra had passed just a few weeks before then. There was a really nice tribute to him in The Celebrity Showroom. Thanks for the upload!

Was this is used for nuclear testing? Was this the island they used to destroy all the Nerve Gases>

RIP kitty

I was there is 1980 for the whole year. Those photos brought back a lot of good memories. Saw a video on JI after it had been shut down and all buildings raized. Didn't recognize any of it and trees are everywhere now. A shame that it wasn't developed into a dive vacation site, nice coral and sea life inside the reef! I would have paid decent money to visit JI for a dive/snorkel vacation.

There's a profound loneliness I feel when I think back to the many great memories I have from my childhood growing up in this town which I was born. They echo in my mind as I look at these wonderful moments of a home that I long for, lost in time, to which I can never return.

Russia is 🚫 Ukraine is ✅️

What a shame! Whoever was behind the camera slung it around so fast most of the images and people are blurred. I remember going to there to the fair in the 60's, I recognized the buildings. Sadly it is all gone now.

made it there in May 1983, giraffe licked a car window...

Sure looks a lot different in these pictures than it did when I was there in 1963 about 10 months after the missile with the nuclear war head blew up on the launch pad. Dredging approximately doubled its size in 1964. I was surprised a couple years ago when I met a nurse who was stationed there. No women were allowed on the island in my day. Women on supply planes that stopped there on their way to Kwajalein weren't allowed to leave the terminal area which was fenced off with a 6 ft. cyclone fence. Often a few drunks would go down to the terminal area to hang on the fence when the plane arrived about 11pm in case one got off the plane to stretch her legs. Amazing what they did with the Atoll since my time there. No joke, we would talk about taking a beer (preserved with a touch of formaldehyde) and sitting under THE only palm tree on the island to drink it. I wish I knew how to upload a picture of the reef rafts we used to work on while measuring currents over the Atoll. They were the very early, very crude forerunners of the modern day pontoon boat made with welded together 55 gallon drums and had about 6 to 8" of free-board. Top speed with a 40 hp was about 3 to 5 mph, if that. The nuclear air test ban treaty was signed about a week after we left the island and I thought it's mission was going to wind down. Little did I suspect it was just getting started.

What a hole. They've been trying to revitalize it for more than half a century. Until they rid it of druggies and other vagrants, it will never come back. And yes, I go there frequently for work purposes. It's still terrible.

I was in the Cub Scout group. Michael Keown. Paradise lost.

I was there 1970 with the 24 ADS (Thor). What an interesting tour of Duty. Dom Ottavi

The runways would still be used because of the size. Midway and Johnston atoll still have a major adjective for the military like in ww2. From storages of planes to logistics of equipment.

The Lockheed Constellation looks nice.

My Father, William David Watkins, aka Bill, was there with USAF in 1970, 1971 & 1972. He was stationed at Vandenburg Air Force Base at that time and would go back and forth. I was born in 1969 so I don't really remember but he would tell me about all the places he had been to during his time with the USAF. He is now 83 and still tells me the stories and history and I just love hearing them again and again and just listening to all his knowledge. I am soooooo blessed and lucky to have him as my father!!!!

I was on the JI closing team 2003-2004, one of the coolest jobs I've ever been on in a 25 year career.

I used to ditch school hop on the bus downtown. Fry on low grade purple microdot in the early 80s. The punks used to sell. Very small tiny scene in fresrag. Mescaline ‘think pink’ was around 81, 82 pink capsule’s. You’re not busy a week. Theirs a reason fresrag’. Some gangbanger tattooed ‘fresno’ on his forehead in the mirror so it was backward said ONSERF

January 22, 1962 ... There are more images online... Haven't found films yet.

Thanks for posting. There from 89 to 2003. Awesome place to be.

We need this up a running again. Time for a rebuild

Someting to be said about that.😁

I was there January 1969 to January 1970, U.S. Air Force, worked on Sand Island.

Was there in 1970 with AFRTS. Was told there was an executive suite in the JOC for the POTUS. Never confirmed it though. Wonder if it was true. Nixon did visit once with AF1.

I still think that 🤔 Johnson atoll territories should have a small coast guard station 🚉 there for emergencies of rescue because of of airstrip and location. Just like 👍 during ww2. Airstrip is big enough for an jets to some infrastructure capabilities.

Gorgeous photos. Nice music too.

Well done.

The only thing that has changed in 60 years is all the stores are closed, the streets are much dirtier, and, while there are still people walking the streets, most of them would be described by those of this era as mutants.

I was there as a kid. I remember all of these scenes

There are MG-TD's MG-TF's MGA's Austin Healy bug eye sprites, larger austin healys 3000?, Triump TR3's, JAG XK120's 140's, XKE's, Mercedes 300 Gullwings and Roadsters probably some 190 roadsters, Bathtub Porsche 356. The newest car may be late 50's. At 2:46 White car is a Jaguar XK140 Drophead, dark car is a Jaguar XK120 Roadster, Roadsters have chrome windshield surrounds, dropheads have body color windshield surrounds.

And now after the stadium was build Fulton mall went down hill who builds a stadium in downtown area when u already have a nice downtown .no more weekends hang out and hearing bands every conner .