The Airman's club and 10 cent beer night on Wednesdays
Not having to be to work until 8:30
Having an hour for lunch with 15 minute breaks in the morning
Permanent class A passes
No parades or inspections
Decent food - except Sunday evenings - Cold Cuts (nicknamed something vulgar that starts with horse)
The USO on the base; not much doing except we put on plays as the Chateau Players.  Also Ann Marsala, a civilian who worked there and later married Mike Amber.
Working at Déols for a time receiving and shipping material
Midnight Chow
The base dentist office
Learning to play cribbage
Being taken for 70 dollars ( a lot in those days) in a poker game by one of the tent city guys
Living in a building (140) where there were two people to a room and a sink
Having to qualify on the indoor range; the BAR that I qualified with was the last weapon I have fired
Eating in the cafeteria on base intended for the French civilians and having wine with them
Going "TDY" to Lisbon (90 days) to work with the Portuguese Air Force
The Faison restaurant and bar.  The first stop before going on the town; had the first of many Kronenberg's there; could barely choke it down
The Red Cross - Dances on Saturday night.  Pulled out one night by a civilian to give blood to a young girl who had a traffic accident and got in a hell of a lot of trouble because of it
Joe from Maine bar - used to convert  MPC to French francs (350 to a dollar).  I read later that one of the young children that used to be in the place went on to become French actor Girard Depardieu.  I also remember good chili
The Grenoulier (called the Frog Pond by the GIs)
A dance hall near the railroad station
There was another bar called (I think) the Blue Moon
Belle Isle Park with the colored strung lights
Visiting Limoges once a month by train
In Paris (a 90 minute train ride from CHAD) there were the following bars:  The Blue Train (I walked in one night just as a beer bottle came whizzing by); Arlettes, The Happy Landing and the Canadian Bar Burberry's, it was in the same building that the American express was n'est ce pas?

Paying $1.20 for a carton of Luckies .those were the days when everyone smoked  .I think I quit in 1961 .What was the thing they issued to us .was it class 6 cards  .that enabled us to buy liquor?

Jambon ham sandwiches on the bus. They had the best mustard on them.  I have  haunted French markets on my business trips (during the 90's) looking for that mustard .but since I didn't know the name  I never had any success

I don't recall a curfew.  Did it apply to the GI's or just the high school kids? The popular song played in most of the bars was Portuguese Washerwoman .remember it? One fond memory: GI's couldn't wait to get off work so they could put on Civvies, but no matter how well they disguised themselves the Government shoes were always a giveaway  Someone would pay big bucks for a cashmere sweater, but would top off the ensemble with his class A black air force shoes .go figure.

I bet if I looked hard enough I would find some script (sp) .nickels were blue .ten dollars were pink.  I forget what 20s were but that's what we got paid in.  We had to go up to the Sqdn commander, salute and say Airman first class Bokas, David D. reporting for pay and say thank you sir afterwards...strange way to get what was owed to you.

Regrets:
That I wasn't interested in the town and it's history
That I haven't returned
That I didn't learn French better  although I was and am somewhat conversational in it having recently retired from a French based company. You know - over the years we have taken a bit of ribbing from family and friends for fighting the battle of Pigalle in the (warless) part of the fifties The debauching, the boozing and other unsavory pursuits, while true, in retrospect,  these activities pale by comparison to the bigger picture.  We gave  four years of our lives in service to our country.  "The proud,  the few" doesn't apply only to Marines.  I was proud of those three stripes on my arm;  proud to be a part of the Air Force.  Those were times during the height of the Cold War when keeping the aircraft supplied with parts made a big difference.  Fortunately, the cold war stayed cold, but hell, we put ourselves out there and for that we and all of those like us should be proud to call ourselves veterans!