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Last updated on:
03/23/2008



25-cent haircuts
Air raid tunnels
All Night Poker In the Latrine
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS)
Banana Seats
Barge Wreck outside Spit Island
Bike Decorating Contest
Boat rides between the islands. 
Bob Hope & Co.
Bobo the dog
Booze Lei's
Bosun Bird Tails (red tails)
Bowling Leagues
Boy Scout Camp
Brackish water
Caddying
Canned milk
Ceramic shop
Cheerleading in Homemade Green/Yellow Outfits
Christening by birds
Clear blue water.
Coasties
Coral poisoning
CPO Club
Dark Tans
Deejays
Deep Sea Fishing
East of Tomorrow Club
Easter Island Trips
Eastern
EM Club
Fairy terns
Fairy terns flying just overhead. 
Fil-Am Picnics 
Finding Red Tail Feathers
Fish balls
Fishball hunts!
Fishball Spacers
Fourth of July parties
Free movies
Frozen Milk
Gecko's
Getting short
Gooney Runway
goonies nesting in our yard
Gossip
Green Light
Halloween "Trick or drink " 
Ham Radio Shack
Handcrafted Carnival Rides
Hartley field
Horses (Bikes)
Horseville
Huge Waterbugs
Hula lessons
Jams and jellies
Japanese house spiders
Kakui Nuts
Kure Island
Learning to make macrame nets for fishballs picked up on the beach
Little League Baseball
Little League Football
Lone Coconut Tree
Lumpia
Main Hill
Man 'O Wars
Mid-watch in the Power House
Miss Midway
Moaning birds!
Monk seals. 
Moray eels
No air conditioning
No cars
No cats
O'Club
Old Black & White TV shows
P.E. on the beach
Peer Fishing
Potato chips in cans
Quarter Beers
R&R
Race Gentry
Red Light
Reef Hotel
Roller Skating Rink
Rust Bucket
Sailors
Scavies
Shark warnings
Shark's Grabbing Baby Gooneys
Short Timer Rings (Cap cover from Booze Bottle)
Shortsnother Bill
Skateboards--the hard way
Skimboards
sock on the bathtub faucet to catch the little red worms 
Softball teams
Spit Island
Stars and Stripes
Sun Showers
Sunburns
Surfing
Teachers
Teenage Gooney "Hair Styles"
Ten-cent canned sodas
The "bus" (landing barge) to Eastern
The "Geedunk"
The 4th of July parades, complete with floats
The beautiful knot tying displayed on the tugboats
The Bleachers
The Dump
The helicopter drying the soccer field after a rain so the kids game could go on
The helicopter scouting the lagoon off the beach to ensure against sharks
The Log Flight
The nasty meaness of Frigate Birds
The October radio progress reports on Goonies returning
The Pier at EM Beach
The Pinball Machine
The silky shining beauty of a nesting Bosun Bird 
The Teen Club
The tree house
Tidal Wave Alerts and Drills
Turquoise Blue Lagoon
Turtles
Walking Around the Island
White sand beaches
Woody Woodpecker cartoons
Year Round Swimming
Yellow underwear
Young Goonies learning to fly. 
Your First Love
Zoomies


If you would like to add something to our list,
send your memory to Lee Maples at:
MidwayIsland@Comcast.net