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. . . Our barracks (dorm actually) wasn't ready when most of us arrived in early 1957. When the paint showed up, chosen by the base commander's wife, we had three colors to choose from; pink, green, & blue (none matching the rust color of our T-shirts). When we finally moved in, we had army bunks, three to a room. Nothing else. We had to build things from scrap crates or project left-overs as best we could. Some guys went to town and came back with chest-of-drawers. Then some heavy duty day-room furniture showed up, with TV. Toward the end of 1957, more or less, the first twin beds arrived. Then some metal chairs. But by 1959, only one or two rooms had a metal table. It was awfully tight with three twin beds in a room but as guys brought their wives or got married and moved into base housing (or off base, many into trailers), the rooms gradually became dual occupancy, as here. Most of us spent three years of our lives living out of those lockers, cleaning the floors, and looking at those cinderblock walls.
