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Here is a August 2008 Google Earth photograph of the old MAAG Officers’s Club Annex. The Club has the orange colored roof. The old USATG Motor Pool is directly across the parking lot (yellow and maroon roof) Please remember that the Google Earth photographs are not up-to-date. I know that this picture was taken before 2006. If you backup and look at the photograph I took in May/June 2006, you will notice weeds growing in parking lot then, I don’t see any weeds in this Google Earth photo.
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I took this photo in November 2007. You are looking toward the area of the old club building. Look at the grass and weeds growing in the center of this photo. Now go back up on this page and notice the parking lot between the club building and the USATG Motor Pool. Where the weeds are growing in this photo is that parking area, look closely and you can see the stripes on the pavement.
Ken Ashley updated me on this property. From the Taipei Times Newspaper, 31 July 2008. “…..Shin Kong Life acquired the two plots of land -- originally owned by the officers club of the Ministry of National Defense's Combined Logistic Command -- two years ago for NT$6.38 billion.
Based on the article in the Taipei Times, it would appear that the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense took over the old club after our departure. I have no additional information. Please update us if you have information. |
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Les Duffin found this photograph of the Dining Room at the MAAG O Club Annex in the “Taiwan Report” a booklet normally presented to newly arrived personnel during in-processing. This room and the windows in the center of this photograph would have looked out onto the lawn area or the swimming pool as seen in the Google Earth photograph above. What you saw during you time in Taipei depends on the years you were there. I still remember the grass being cut with hand shears by a number of men. I was told that the grass cutting was done in this manner to keep more men employed. I always wondered about that.
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I found this old lighter in my “stuff” a few months back. I used to smoke in the mid 60’s when stationed in Taipei and the loss of paint was just wear and tear from being dropped into my pants pocket after lighting up on of those cigarettes I used to smoke way back when.
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