jim pastorius posted:Later while doing WW II re-enacting we stayed in them at different bases. At that time, in the 1980s, at Ft. Indiantown Gap we stayed in some old original WW II barracks, still open but the latrines weren't as good. I marveled at the design of those buildings.
Sadly, most (if not all) of them got plowed over at "FIG" a few years back. They also closed the Battle of the Bulge re-enactment there for good, last year was the very last one.
I went to several of those events in the 90s, including the massive one in 1995. I'll never forget walking past a line of halftracks and tanks that took a long time to get past!
I also endured the horrors at Funck's Family Restaurant, right outside the FIG gates. Nothing other than that for miles, so the food was overpriced, never very good and the service was always iffy. It's the only place I ever ate at where I went to the manager, told him I wasn't going to pay as it was so bad, and that I wanted him to know I wasn't doing a 'dine and dash' as I didn't want him to think that would've bene worth my time. I actually told him he was lucky I didn't bill him instead. As I walked out, one of the few people who wasn't stunned to hear that actually said out loud, "Wow, I didn't know that was an option!" Within a couple of hours, people at the swap meet buildings on post were coming up to me, asking if I was the guy who'd just done that at that awful greasy spoon...
