[K6NCG] Re: Your island exprtise

[Desmond]

At 10:13 PM 12/11/2005, you wrote:

>Hi Desmond,
>Perhaps you can help this gentleman out. I don't know if this is in the 
>barracks the Job Corps has now or what, and you're sure more qualified on 
>island questions.
>Winter happiness to you and Laura!
>Karen

Hi Paul,

This is Desmond Crisis, I live in what I think used to be housing for 
enlisted personnel with families.  Casson Hall may be on property that has 
been transferred to the U.S. Department of Labor Job Corps.  Unfortunately 
those BOQ's are pretty much condemned and have been boarded up for years. 
The photo you want would be close to impossible to get without breaking and 
entering.  Job Corps is using the old galley to train cooks and the 
transient unit barracks for dorms.

You were asking about the pier, it's actually south of my location..  It's 
still here but has sadly gone into disrepair and is condemned.  Many of the 
pilings have rotted off and it's just not safe anymore.  It must've been 
great to fish from.

If you had ET school here, were you by any chance part of the Ham 
club?  I've been in touch with some of them and keep trying to organize a 
field day from the site of the old shack.  The building is gone but the 
base of the old tower is still there and it still has "K6NCG Forever" and a 
number of the members callsigns legible!  What a thrill it was to find 
that.  I'd been looking for years.

If you like to come visit I'd love to tour the island and trade 
stories.  Let me know.

DC

>Hi Karen,
>
>My Name is Paul Reece.  I'm a retired US Navy Chief.   I went to ETA 
>School there on TI.   I have attached a photo of Casson Hall with my room 
>circled.  I was wondering if you know who is in charge of that building 
>and if it would be possible to get any body to take some pictures from 
>that room both during the day and hopefully in the evening also.  For some 
>unknown reason in the seven or eight months that I lived there I never 
>took one photo from that room.  Please don't ask me how that happened I 
>couldn't give you an answer if you paid me.
>
>Also, is there any way that I could contact Desmond Crisis.  It sure would 
>be nice if I could get him to give me an idea what the view is be hind the 
>camera.  Is there an old wooden pier a little to the north of this 
>location?  Assuming, that the pier is still there of course.  Or do you 
>know of somebody there who would be interested in answering a bunch of 
>questions about the island.
>
>I sure appreciated the great pictures of The Bay from your location.
>
>By the way I was sitting there on the rocks of TI when the Dock Of the Bay 
>was written right across the Bay from TI.  Plus, for what it is worth I 
>heard it performed a couple of times at the USO right before and or right 
>after it was recorded.  Oh yea the artist performed it himself at the time.
>
>I'm not to sure I left my heart in San Jose or San Francisco but I do know 
>it is still looking out the Golden Gate.
>
>Merry Christmas,
>
>Paul Reece
>ETC USN Retired