SAGAMIHARA - A Look Back
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- A then-and-now look at Sagamihara Family Housing Area, located approximately 40 km southwest of Tokyo in the Minami Ward of Sagamihra City.
HISTORY:
SHA was first established in December 1937 as home to a Japanese Imperial Army telegraph regiment. At the end of World War II in 1945, the U.S. Army occupied the heavily forested installation as part of the U.S. Army garrison at nearby Camp Zama. In 1949, Sagamihara was formally designated as a dependent housing area and the Army Corps of Engineers began construction of 680 housing units to accommodate the influx of personnel and dependents. Sagamihara Elementary School opened in September 1951 with 300 students, ten teachers, and a principal. It was renamed John O. Arnn Elementary School in 1982. The original school building was destroyed in a fire in 1967 and was replaced by a new campus. A new school at SHA was officially dedicated on August 28, 2003. Construction of two-story concrete housing quarters began in 1994. Most of the old 1950s-era wood and stucco quarters and facilities remained in use until 2012 when the Army undertook major redevelopment of SHA, including new townhouse housing quarters, pool, recreation, dining and entertainment facilities. Few of the original structures, such as the original PX-snack bar building, steam plant and old housing, remain. They have been re-purposed. - Фільми й анімація
thank you for the trip back. i was there in 77 and 78. lots of memories in that short time. lots of changes too. i'm 52 now and brought tears to my eyes. thanks again.
77-80 here
Thank you for posting this great video! We lived in Sagamihara from 64-67 and and I attended the elementary school at Camp Zama for K-2nd grade. I took swimming lessons at the pool. What wonderful memories I have of my childhood there! We even had snow one winter.
Lived and went to school here in Sagamihara around '63-66. Being an Army brat you leave behind many good friends because you tend to get transferred every 3 years or so. Remember riding the post bus and going to the snack bar and getting a drink. Remember going to the theater a watching the James Bond movie "Dr.No" with a friend named Bobby Winston. Even remember a tragic jet crash that happened one night. I'll never forget that. It was a time in my life I will always remember and charish.
Live there from 1985 - 1991 - I miss the old library near the gas station - My heart will always be there -
Thank you for this. I lived on Kamiseya and attended Sagamihara Elementary about 1967-1970
Went to that elementary school as well from 1st grade to 6th. - 1966-1972
Also went to Sagamihara Elementary
1966, '67 & '68. Lived in Sagamihara Housing Area and rode my bike to school -- what memories !!!
So weird. I was looking for more videos of SHA and I see this video. Right in the beginning you drive by my mother and sister waiting for her Yochien school bus. Can’t wait until I am able to visit Japan again.
Thanks so much for sharing. We lived in Sagamihara 1968 thru 1970.
,I lived at Sagmihara housing from 1969 to 1971, went to Zama middle and the old High school. I lived near the elementary school.
Our class at Sagamihara Elementary in the early mid-1960's would go to that base theater to watch Disney's Jiminy Cricket educational safety films such as fire safety and such. We called them the "I'm No Fool" films. I really enjoyed going there together as a group. We also went on a school field trip into the Japanese countryside to visit a Japanese Green Tea Plantation Farm along beautiful forested hillsides. Our school at Sagamihara always had Japanese locals from the nearby civilian community come visit us during special occasions for public school assemblies which every grade of the entire school would view together. The Japanese locals would give us American kids demonstrations of their traditions and culture. I remember our huge outdoor school courtyard being used to demonstrate the old fashion way of making mochi. The entire school stood wrapped around the perimeter of the courtyard while skilled Japanese artisans from the local community pounded hot steaming rice with a large wooden mallet into a huge wooden barrel. They would sing and pound in rhythm until it was mushy. Sagamihara holds many memories. Dear memories for me. I miss my friends. We Army Brats don't often get to keep our friends for very long.
No we don't. I was accustomed to making fast friends and few, if any, long-lasting friendships. It was a matter of self-preservation and to avoid the heartbreak of having to say goodbye.
My husband was at Sagamihara ES from 1964-67. Maybe you were there at the same time! This video is amazing, brought back so many memories for him! My husband remembers seeing "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" at that theatre.
@@CherylDayToday saw the same movie there!
I was there from the mid sixties until mid seventies and it was a blast being an army brat living on base. I remember the cherry blossom 🌸 next to our P-house. I remember the Japanese citizens would walk by the fence and asked us to invite them for a barbecue 😂
Amazing memories from SHA as I lived in two homes there back in the 90’s.
Spent three years, arrived with one kid and left with two.
Use to walk to commissary with a wagon to food shop.
When the gym annex was locked ya had to get the key from the fire house.
The drive to Zama was easy and the drive to Atsugi wasn’t that difficult.
My son enjoyed eating at the club and his favorite…chicken fingers of course.
So many wonderful memories.
We ived at Camp Fuchinobe and I attended grade school at Sagami Depot. Dad was stationed at Camp Zama with Special Services (MWR today). I remember getting sick and having to go the hospital at Sagamihara in 1965. I will always have fond memories of Japan and appreciative that I was so lucky to have lived there. Fast forward 1980. I returned as the Dunham & Smith Agencie Commissary & Exchange representative from 1980 - 1983. I got to revisit many of the sites! Thanks for sharing this video.
That was a blast. We lived in Sagamihara from 1957-1959, from when I was six, in a single-family house on, IIRC, 3rd Street. Dad was provost marshal at Zama. I did first through third grades at the base elementary school. Now (and for the past 50 years) in NYC.
I lived in base housing and attended the Sagamihara elementary school in 1957! We could walk to the theater on a path near the base barbed-wire fence and collect chestnuts from the trees on the border. I saw Jacques Cousteau's The Sea Around Us at the theater and it spurred an interest in science. The housing was much newer than when we lived in Washington Heights. What a delight to have a free range childhood here. Thank you for posting this!
I was at Sagamihara elementary for 1st grade in 1956 with Miss Opfer and 2nd grade in 1957 with Ms. Roselli. Were you in my class? Ed
there in 63
@@edwarddauer9067 Just came across your question Ed. No, my memory failed me. I checked: 2nd grade in Washington Heights, 3rd Grade at St Mary's in Tokyo and 4th Grade with Ms. Toombs in Sagamihara. Navy fliers used to fly over and wave their tails (Cutlass) for Ms. Toombs. I had a crush on her and realized that I couldn't compete with jets and Navy Dress Blues!
lived here 1974-77. Fond memories! thank-you for sharing.
We missed you by four years. Lived at SHA 68-70.
This is wonderful. I lived there from 1975-1979. My second child was born in Japan. Thanks for the memories ❤
A lot has changed since I lived there 1991-1993 (3rd and 4th grade). The elementary school was called John O. Arnn Elementary school. I can remember, during the monsoon season, they had to put down pallets for us to walk to the cafeteria.
You would hardly recognize it now. While Arnn Elementary is still there all of the old housing is gone, plus the pool, theater, etc. are new since your time.
Thank You so much you brought back great memories.
I miss it there sooo much! I really miss eating at Viking the most!
Sagamihara City is beautiful, as is the whole of Japan in general. You won’t believe it, I first heard of Sagamihara City from Captain Aty. He is the little Asian clawed otter the best “Ambassador” of Japan and amazingly, Aty is the Sagamihara City Goodwill Tourism Ambassador. With this little adventurer, we met half of Japan ..😍
Spent 5 years there 1970-1975....the Army had to drag me out.....great time and the nicest people I ever met......
I actually lived on Sagamihara from early 1994 thru the middle of 1997. Stayed in the area working on Camp Zama thru the end of 2017. Great Video! Lots of good memories. I was just back there this past July for two weeks...
Would love to head back for another tour or two. My home for more than half my life!
WOW thank you. I lived at Sagamihara housing 66-69. love the video / pictures.
Lived in Sagamihara (2015-2020) 😍😍 Nostalgic 😭
loved, loved the video... was a kid there in the 50's... thank you, thank you.
Well done, well done.
beautiful documentary thank you! 💕
Miss this place. I was there summer 2018 😢
My family lived here 67,68.69 I went to 6.7,8 th grade in zama lot of good memories thanks
Okie, you and I must've rode the bus to Zama together. We lived at SHA 1968-70. I was in 6th and 7th grade at Zama Middle School. ~ Tom
@@japanbrats i think i was on that bus in 71. the kids would all start their cassette players at the same time and blast war pigs.
@@TheDouglascates Yep, that's what we did...haha
you probably knew who Shirly White was.
@@TheDouglascates Not sure. I knew a Shirley, really cute girl a couple years younger than me who lived in one of the P houses. Had two older brothers, John and George. But I think her last name was Mosier.
i lived here from 2002 to 2007. i love you Japan
lived at sagamihara for 2 years mid 1971 to mid 1974 ( age 6 to 9) I remember visting on a field trip to downtown toyko the first in the country McDonalds and baskin-robins .. we then took personal trips in to the city to go to shakeys pizza, a sumo event mount fuji and the bullet train and the love train.. i vividly remember the earth quake drills .. my dad was the head of communications for his last TDY at ZAMA . i remember him telling me that even back then Japan as a country was still rebuilding after WW2. . .. anybody remember the day the snack bar got the pizza oven and all hell broke lose the day it opened to serve hot pizza's ... spent every single day at the pool when we could .. Cmd Col R J Tourtillott
I lived in P-311 from Jun 64 - Jun 68... thanks for the video !!
You left as soon as we arrived Sept. '68. We lived at 213-A.
I lived in P707 between 1969 to 1971.
The Sagamihara Snack Bar had the best hamburgers and the Shopette had the best Archie comic books!
Dad was the MC at Zama NCO club in the early sixties.
Lived in one of the p homes back in 1969
I lived there 1959-1966. Had an opportunity to visit in 2015 and BOTH of the houses where we lived were gone. One was a construction site and the other (4-plex) was just totaly gone; bare ground.
Don, were your quarters near the back gate or on the West side near the school? I lived down the street from the firehouse and steam plant 1968-70.
First one was (793-C by old numbering system) near the back gate (first court on the right as you came in). Second one was down the street from the firehouse, right side, a court of five single. All the way back, next to the ditch. The path crossed in front of us.
@@oDon44 That explains why they were gone when you went back in 2015. They were among the first to go. The ones by the ditch were replaced by storage units. 793-C and that court were replaced by 2-story townhouses. Now, all of the original quarters except one single are gone. That one single next to the pool was kept sort of as a memorial and is still occupied.
@@japanbrats Thanks. It was obviously ongoing in 2015. I was just disappointed that both places were gone as I had my wife in tow and especially wanted to walk the second one by the ditch. (I had also hit a barrier in the rental car when leaving Zama so wasn't totally on my game.) When we got back to Zama had lunch in the HQ building snack bar; imagine that, I knew exactly where it was!
I was fortunate enough to visit in 1988 and see the old places. Ah, nostalgia. - Don
I lived on sagamihara from 86 -88 and from 89 -91 is the teen center still there?
I lived down the very street of the pool, commissary during the mid 70's. house 208
are the houses still there?
Sorry Kevin, they're all gone now. And most of the big trees too.
Kevin, all the way back next to the ditch in a court of four other singles?
My house is gone now RIP 230-C
Bro That was rosie from the child development center I went to like so long ago how did you get these videos
Melodie where are you?
there 1964-1966