BC Street
by BCST1963BC Street ran parallel with Gate Two Street in the Koza area, now known as Okinawa City. I offer this information in answer to a question asked earlier. Sorry, that it did not post as a comment to the appropriate blog. My error, but my heart was in the right place. I’ll get better at this in time.
September 30th, 2007 at 7:20 am
I served in okinawa in81-82,with hq 4th.
By the tibe we got to BC Street,we were hammered.
Photos might clear the fog.
I loved it there.
October 14th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I just finished reading B.C. St. I opened it and finished it in 2 hours, couldn’t put it down. Good book and I couldn’t find any real glaring errors about Okinawa even though I was stationed there for 8 years. I even remember the US Club and think I have a match box form there.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I was in Okinawa during part of the Vietnam war and stationed at Torii Station on old highway 6. I remember BC Street well! It was known as the largest U.S. Forces drinking area in the Far East and probably the world. Very fond memories of the Barkers yelling “Showie, Showie, Showie” while a cute local in a bikini had a boa constrictor around her shoulders. Two hours and ten drinks later you would be 4 blocks down, different barker, different girl, same snake.
Those were the days! I met a nice Okinawan gal in a small local restaurant near Sobe Village who is from a nice family. We have been married for 35 years now and have two grown and happily married children and three grandchildren. The Okinawan’s, unlike the Japanese used to take life at a little slower pace and were the nicest people as a whole that I think I have ever met on this planet.
BC Street was nice and a great place to sow some oats but not a place to judge the true people of the Ryukyu Islands.