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Grant Heights 1971-73 - Nearing the End
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| An aerial map of Grant Heights. The colored insert may be an overlay of what the plans were to convert Grant Heights to a park & housing area. Narimasu HS should be near the oval field at the top. | View of Grant Heights from on top of a high building nearby. This is a super wide shot, probably with some special lens. With the water tower in the distance, this pic is probably shot from behind the movie theater - note the shape of the building - and the BX. |
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Too cool!
A wide shot of the BX and theater! |
Another wide shot. Can anyone recognize any landmarks in it?
See your quarters here? |
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| An entrance gate that appears to be the main gate, from N Avenue, through which the school buses came from Washington Heights, Johnson and Momote Village. Guard shacks were usually on a wider cement island (as protection from wild drivers). There appears to be a wider road going to the left ... that leads to the road past the baseball fields, a bomb shelter, and to MAAG-J housing. | Another gate .. usually a JN (remember what that meant?) and an Air Police tag team. Other gates were near NHS, by the PE fields, and at the far end of the base, near the Officers' Club, the opposite end of the housing area from the school and chapel. Thanks to Kevin Buey, NHS '64, for filling in the blanks on these pics of Grant Heights. |
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| A Grant Heights street with no one in sight. |
This is the electric and heating plant for all the housing area ... you'll recall the steam radiators. The smokestacks are visible in the photo above of the movie theater and BX. The heating power plant was beyond the snack bar, which was a long block past, or below, the movie theater/BX. |
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| The NCO Club | The Fire Department |
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| A story on a fire in December 1971 | The base chapel |
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| This was Grant Heights Elementary School. The triangular sign kinda gives a hint. It was at the opposite side of the block from NHS main entrance. | The 4th of July. Wasn't the patriotism more intense here than it was back in the U.S.? |
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| 30 September 1973 .. when Grant Heights was
returned to the Japanese government. |
Obviously an elementary school outdoor play ..
but a fitting photo after the previous one. |
Domo arigato to Sahei KATO, Grant
Heights Security Policeman about 1971-73, for posting these photos on his
Japanese language Web site. We've been looking for these for
many years, Kato-san.
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