Edwards & Drake Kaserne, Frankfurt 2023
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- For all of you who lived and worked here, who grew up here or raised a family here, this video is for you. Please leave comments and share your memories.
Drake Kasern is the home of the Bundespolizei and is not open for visiting.
If you want to just walk by, take the U-5 and continue down Homburgerlandstrasse about 10 more minutes. The Pizza place is still in hands of the same family for over 40 years now, but the original owner passed away 2 years ago. His daughter runs it now. We had pizza there yesterday and have got to say, this is the best pizza I have eaten in Frankfurt.
The US Army left here in 1992.
Link to more information about those who were posted here at one time:
www.3ad.com/pio/
Wawwww, so many memories! FARMC 1983-1994.
That was a long time to be here. Share some memories with us.
Brings back a lot of memories from the 80s
Did you live or work here?
Awesome, I definitely bought food at the burger bar from 88 - 90 !! I’ve been waiting so long for someone to do this !! Thank You so much !!!! 👍👍 above the burger bar was the library, pool tables and most importantly where we would sign up on the list days ahead so we could call home to the States .
Great memories you are sharing.
Wow DeAngelo's is still there. Went there many a night after drinking at Johns Pub. Stationed with 22nd Chemical Co. 3AD Drake Kaserne 89-91. Thank you so much.
Glad you enjoyed the video. They do have delicious pizza
This video was a Cool find !!!
I was at Edward Kaserne 1971-72 (143rd Signal Bn)…
Barely looks recognizable but still familiar settings…
Yes… ANGELOS PIZZA was the BEST!!!
Especially after getting stoned!!!
Thank you for the video !!!
So glad you enjoyed it. Hope you share some memories of your time there.
What, no Bubble Gym? ;) I lived in the Edwards Housing Area from 76-79, and attended both FAJHS and FAHS. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing your memories.
I worked at Frankfurt American Junior High from 1989-1990. So many changes. The last time I was in Germany was in 2013 and it was all so different. I imagine even now, more so.
The city keeps changing rapidly. It is nothing like what it was in the 80s or 90s. Mostly positive though. Are you on any of the Frankfurt alumni FB pages?
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 No, I’m not on any of the pages. I didn’t realize there were any.
The building at 1:22-1:33 was the building my office was in when I worked for the IG 1978-1981. We lived in Edwards housing and could walk through a back gate of Edwards, cross the street and go through the gate at Drake. Thanks for sharing the video. Lots of memories!
So glad you enjoyed it. It is so wonderful to read the memories that everyone shares on these videos.
Awesome video! This brings back so many great memories! That housing area looks like Old Edwards! I lived in the Building right in front of the DYA ( now the kindergarten) in 1978-1980 I cheered for the Edwards Packers youth football team in 1979 and 1980. GiGi Goode was our coach. I also went to Atterbury Elementary school number 2 and FAJHS. I look forward to seeing your next video!
I went to the "Junior Highschool" in the 70's and often visited the Division Ammo Ofice in Drake, while I was Stationed in Friedberg. And I allso live in Frankfurt after my Service Time.
Thanks for sharing your memories.
DeAngelo's is hands down the best pizza in Frankfurt!! I had some U of M classes on Drake and lived in Edwards in mid-80s. Awesome experience and fun times! Drake was 3rd Armored Division HQ, and Edwards was where Elvis was stationed when he was in the Army. They always left a light on in his room. Thank you so much for the video.
I agree about the pizza. Had one yesterday. Glad you liked the video.
Elvis was stationed in Hanau but he did come over to Edwards once for only a short time passing through. That wasn't him that jumped into the sports car in front of Drake in GI blues. He met Pricilla in Hanau where her father was a colonel stationed there. Sorry I have the advantage of you because I was there at the time.
Pretty sure Elvis was stationed in Friedberg but lived in Bad Nauheim. Priscillas dad was in Wiesbaden. @@frankmchugh9436
I remember DeAngelos!
Your content is great we are visiting in October and just love all the memories you are waking up keep up the great work
Thanks. Hope you make time to tour with us when you visit in Oct.
My wife and I think that’s a great idea will have to see what our daily plans are I will keep your offer in mind and contact you. We just hope October turns out good with not a lot of rain
Edwards had a chapel on the kasserene, it was inside the gate and to the right as you went in, Drake did not have one. The building with the cupola on top of it was where the American Express office was. And the one to the left of it as you are looking at it from the street was the headquarters building for the 3rd Armored Division. Lived in New Edwards Housing Area from 81 to 84 then moved to Mainz. Dad was stationed at Maurice Rose Army Airfield in Bonames with the 11th Avn Company 5th corp
Thank you so much for the details about both of these Kasernes.
My parents were teachers at FAJHS for many years. Parts of the video seemed familiar, but so much has changed since the 80s.
Frankfurt has changed tremendously since the 1980s. Hope you can come back for a visit some day.
So much...has changed since the 70's. I was in the Class of 74' in FAJHS
@@Ironmikeblood Yes, the city has changed a lot, especially since the 80s. They wanted to improve the reputation of Frankfurt with museums, festivals, more parks, etc.
I am pretty sure I had your parents as teachers. Mid-80s. Such great memories.
Loved this video! I lived in Edwards housing twice from 81-84 and 86-88. Where the Kindergarten you showed was, looked like the location of the old Youth Activities Center. There were officers' quarters directly behind Edwards Kaserne at the top of the hill in Old Edwards. I walked to Frankfurt American Junior High on Drake and took the bus and train to F.A.H.S. where I graduated. in 87. There was Old Edwards housing and New Edwards housing. If I remember correctly, the Football field and tennis court was between the housing areas. I worked at the Youth Center and got my first job with Morale Support Activities Frankfurt. I worked at Edwards, Betts Roller Rink, and Camp King. All in the Youth Activities and Youth Sports. I Loved Edwards and Drake. DeAngelo's was a treasure. The best pizza. Thank you for the walk down memory lane. -Ken
Thanks for sharing your memories and info about the buildings. Yes, that was an excellent pizza!
@Ken I believed we crossed paths
Thank u so much for ur videos 🙂 i grew up in FRANKFURT and lived in New Edwards from 70 till 77 then moved to right outside of Gibbs and had the best time living there. I left in 97 after working as a Base closure tech and closing down all the kaserns starting with Edwards and Drake and finishing up with Rodelheim and moving to Hanau for a few months.. Will always miss those places and Frankfurt will never be the same but i felt honored to be one of the last five employees to be part of that team that closed down forever all those places i went to as a Military Brat and as a Adult working for the 103rd ASG/418 BSB.. Thanks again for sharing ur awesome videos and remind us all how that community meant so much to us all! Much love to u❤
Thank you so much for such a detailed comment and sharing your story about living here. Do you ever come back for a visit? The city has changed a lot.
@mikelstiers2608 please see my post above would love to hear more about the last years of Edwards
Thank you for the walk... It has completely changed since I was there.
Glad you enjoyed it.
& WOW! I just seen you worked at Edwards in 88', so we were there at the same time even😳pretty cool
I was only there for about a week, I worked at Camp King all the time.
Thank you for doing this. I moved to Old Edwards when I was 9 now I am 46, SO much has changed. You said that you worked at the snack/lunch cafeteria in 1988? That is when we moved to Mannheim. Old Edwards has a place in my heart. I just watched Dirty Dancing which I rented from a shopping area across the street from Old Edwards, there was also a Trinkhalle where I got sour gummy Cokes for 5 phinnings each. I love your channel. XO
Yes, I mainly worked at Camp King in Oberursel, but they sent me to Edwards for a week, I think in 1988?
Glad you enjoyed the video and have some great memories.
Thank you for these videos! I attended Frankfurt American Junior High 1963--1965. Lots of great memories!!!
Oh wow. Not sure where that would be today or if the building still exists. If you have an address, I can look and see.
Thank you for posting. Brought back so many memories.
DeAngelos..mmmmmmm so good.
Yes, there was a chapel on Edwards atleast in the 80s. The building immediately to the right of the gate.
Old Edwards!!! We lived on the 1st street. 554A6 Im Klingenfeld used to be the address.
Thank you so much for sharing details and memories.
Wow, this brings back memories! I was stationed there from 1985-1989. I was in the 143rd Signal Battalion, we were in the big building at 2:15 in your video. Thanks for posting this, it was great to see it again.
So happy you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for the video. I'm a former FAJHS student 68-71. Also a former soccer player for the 3rd Armored Division soccer team in the early to mid 70's. I remember the FAJHS basketball team played some of their games at the Drake gym in the 70/71 school year. On a different note, I wonder if the SPD sign at the 5:48 minute marker and the size of the housing area you referenced are connected to each other in some way in the call for "Zeit fuer 6000 neue Aerztinnen", Maybe in part medical student housing?
Thanks for commenting.
The signs are all over Frankfurt, not just here. Voting is soon, so all of the many political parties have their signs everywhere.
At 5:58 you are at the quarters we lived in on the right. We were on the third floor at the far end. When you go straight through to the end of the building you are you are facing where the AYA was. They have since tore it down obviously and built that new building. My mother worked at the AYA where my sibs and I hung out as if it were our second home. We were there 60-64.
Thanks so much for the tour! I was stationed on Drake from 86 to 89 with the 3AD. If you worked in the snack bar on Edwards, I’m sure we crossed paths. I dated an Irish girl who worked at the library on Edwards. Such wonderful times! I miss them so much.
I mainly worked at Camp King and was only at Edwards for a few days.
I sure wished someone would do a walk through what's left of Rhein Main AFB. Was Army, but stationed on RMAFB.
Check out my video of Gateway Gardens. That is all that is left of Rhein Main.
Thank you for the interesting video. Assuming Drake and Edwards were former US military bases decommissioned now? Am not familiar as no one in my family was stationed there-only stateside. Thank you for the informative walk.
Yes, the military left both of these posts in 1992, other posts in Frankfurt a bit later.
Thanks Jo. It's funny that for those of us that lived in Germany for any amount of time, you can almost always tell when a building was used by the military, it just has that look. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.
This is so true! All built the same. Thanks for commenting.
I was assigned to Drake Kaserne, 1987-1990, 22nd Chemical Company! I have some pretty good memories of the place. Had 2 baby's born at 97th General Hospital & we lived in the Eschborn high-rise👍 I was stationed in Germany 3 times and still do love the place. Thanks for the video. ps. So you walked from the Prungesheim u-bahn stop, to drake/edwards? That's what it used to be I believe😁
Yes. In my Gibbs kasern video, I walk up the street where the U-bahn goes, but not quite as far as Drake/Edwards.
@@frankfurtonfoottours2361 yep! The 3rd AD Spearhead Museum was also on Drake. And the barber shop next to the PX there had an old German barber that actually cut Elvis Presley's hair when he was with the 3rd AD. Soldiers would come from all around to get a haircut from Elvis' barber😁I think he was stationed in Friedberg
Hey I was at the 22nd Chemical Co from 89-91.
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@@raiderfan71269 I was in the maintenance platoon, out there with SFC Cipriano, SGT Archie, PFC Evans, etc. I drove the 5 ton wrecker most the time I was there, with SPC Hernandez
I grew up here
When was that? Thanks for sharing. you must have a lot of interesting memories.
at 2:20 is the door/landing that morning roll call was taken for b co 143 after cq duty.. it was july when i first met sgt robert morse.. he came to us from nam without any layover in the states.. anyway we were dressed for summer.. sgt morse was not.. he came out in full winter gear.. pile cap with flaps down.. field jacket.. and gloves.. and most likely some stuff i didn t even know about.. since we were the same rank and i had never encountered this before .. after roll call and all present i ask to talk with sgt morse.. trying to tell someone of the same rank that top is not going to let you run around in winter gear.. well he wasn t going to listen to me so after about ten minutes.. he more or less knew what was coming .. poor guy.. he was in summer dress later on that day.. alot of other stuff happened by that door too .. i was there jan 66 to july 69
Interesting story!
de angelo has been there for a very long time
Yes, it has been and still in the same family.
wondering does anyone remember pizzeria bonanza it looked like a western saloon and it was frequented by americans back in the early 80s to 90s
Not familiar with this one. Do you remember where it was?
If you drove towards the u5 and went maybe 400 meters past the station on the right on homburget landstrasse
OMG! I think I saw the barracks window I jumped out of during a health and welfare check!!! LMAO
Too funny! Thanks for sharing a unique memory.
This country is increasingly in the grip of paranoia. In 2003 I was able to go inside Drake - and take pictures - , at a time when it was already used by the police. Nobody complained then. And some trivia from way back then: In the late 50s Elvis Presley most likely attended a change of command ceremony at Drake. And some scenes for Elvis first post-Army movie "GI Blues" were shot in front of Drake and Edwards
They actually filmed a lot of GI Blues while Elvis was serving, waiting until he was out to do the scenes with him in them. He came to Frankfurt to meet his double.
I think the police keeping the public out of their training area is the same as military bases keeping the public out.
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