Robinson Barracks, Stuttgart

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  1. Frank H Laetsch says:
    May 11, 2012 at 7:49 am

    While not stationed at Robinson, I do remember it well. My wife and I stayed at the Army Hotel there while waiting for Government Quarters in Pattonville in 1972. Coming out of Vietnam (second time), we needed a car quick so we went to AAFES New Car Sales at Robinson. Don’t know what rode me, but I brought a 1972 AMC Matador. 2 years later I traded this piece of junk for a Mercedes (used). Spent 5 years in Stuttgart, all in Nellingen Barracks. First with the 87th Maint Bn then with 2d SUPCOM.

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  2. Frank Gresik says:
    April 14, 2012 at 10:11 am

    I lived in RB from Jan 1970 to May 1971. I was a CW2 and a helicopter pilot assigned to the 29th Transportation down at the Stuttgart Airport. It was the best time of my life. Just out of Viet Nam, money in my pocket, a new Porsche and a few girlfriends. That was the life. Does anyone remember Franco and Aldo from the Officers club?

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  3. Chavez Ray says:
    April 7, 2012 at 9:42 pm

    Any Bldg 112 MP’s (Family Housing) folks out there. (79-83) Miss you all.

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  4. Tom Weis says:
    March 8, 2012 at 10:07 pm

    Mike Baginy, We have an old friend newly signed into the Patch site,Michael Tourne`
    who has recorded 15 reels of AFN circa1970 ( his claim) . Suggest you type him a note.
    He could have those recordings that you mentioned.
    I was re-reading your posting about photography and would love to see your favorite
    s.I’ve got pics on photobucket and Mike recently put up some of his also.

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  5. buddy Glazner says:
    March 4, 2012 at 11:50 am

    I was in the 106th Finance Section at robinson barracks from Feb. ’72 thru Jul ’74. Worked in several different areas, really enjoyed it. If anyone was there during that period please contact me. Buddy.

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  6. Charles Cooper says:
    February 23, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Loking for any one that was assigned to the 25th BO from April 65-May 68, or any one tghat worked at the Skyline club on RB

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    • John Flinn says:
      May 14, 2012 at 3:04 pm

      I don’t recognize you name, but I was a member of the 25th BPO and assigned to Wharton Barracks in 1965. I served with Sgt. Ortiz in Heilbronn and ran in to him in Viet Nam.

  7. michael eatmon says:
    February 21, 2012 at 9:33 pm

    I was stationed in Stuttgart at Patch barracks 1978-1979. I had a ball in the 554th MP company

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    • Tom Weis says:
      February 22, 2012 at 7:44 pm

      Hello Michael,I lived there in 1969-70 .Was the “cave” still open ? How about the fusball game?When you have time go over to the Patch thread.I was transferred
      To 385th co.A after and we got beer-vending machines,did you guys?

    • roger rivers says:
      February 23, 2012 at 3:11 pm

      was the Patch library still up on the 3rd floor above the snack bar? Was Mom’s in Vaihingen still there? Like Tom, I too am mostly over on Patch site. Welcome!

    • bill conway {twitty} says:
      March 30, 2012 at 8:04 am

      i was there 78-80 played softball for mp”s and buffaloes. member of general guards. looking for any pictures anybody has lost all mine

  8. bob stephens says:
    February 19, 2012 at 5:13 am

    I was there at Robinson Barracks in 81, and was in contact with the office that handled child adoption. Would someone please contact me with information of the civil affairs offfice that I can contact that handled child adoption the year 1981.

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  9. Mary Ann Brinkley says:
    January 30, 2012 at 9:45 pm

    I lived at RB from 1950-1953. The valley was full of fruit trees then and bomb holes. We saw bullets in the tree trunks and played in the valley alot. I recall the road to the elementary school being built across the top edge of the valley. My dad was Col. Harold Coder, in charge of the General Hospital. RB was a great place to grow up!

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    • Mike Baginy says:
      February 7, 2012 at 5:40 am

      Hi Mary Ann,

      Wow, interesting description of the surrounding area. You’d probably not recognize much today. The only area not (yet) built up is the hill down towards Bad Cannstatt (behind school). At the bottom of that hill an industrial area has been built. I attended 8th grade in 1968-1969, then attended High School at Pattonville. So much has changed. Nice memories though.

      All the best,
      Mike

    • Mike says:
      March 3, 2012 at 9:38 pm

      Mary Ann,

      I lived at RB from 1953-1955. I remember the valley well. It also had a bombed out pillbox near the top toward the stairwell buildings. I went to the 7th grade at Stuttgart High School and then to Ludwigsburg Elementary School for the 8th grade. My dad was the Sergeant Major of the 5th General Hospital.

    • Lorna Bergdale Gilbert says:
      March 20, 2012 at 1:25 am

      Mary Ann! Where are you? And Beth–where is she? Every now and then I get nostalgic for Stuttgart and surf around the net, but this is the first time I’ve come across this particular site. I look back on those years at Robinson Barracks as the absolute epitome of the perfect childhood experience. In various photo collections I’ve come across, I’ve learned that we lived on “King’s Row,” but it wasn’t called that then. Remember sliding down the bannisters? And walking around on our stilts? The pictures also show that the beautiful Valley, where we spent so much time, has now been built up, but it seems kids still kept sliding down that hill for some years after we left. The three of us probably climbed most of those trees, and sometimes brought our pet white mice along on tree-climbing expeditions. I remember the bullet holes and bomb craters in the orchard very well–when it rained the craters became lakes. There was also a little stream that ran through the valley, remember? We decided we were environmentalists then, before we had even heard that word. Great times.

  10. Karin Titmas says:
    January 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    Karin Brown
    I worked in 106th Finance at Robinson Bks from August 1969 until October 1970, and again in 1973/74 for the Housing Division of the Baden Wuerttemberg District until Hsg got combined with the Engineers where we moved to Bldg 6, Grenadier Kaserene

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    • buddy Glazner says:
      March 4, 2012 at 11:53 am

      Karin: I was in the 106th Finance Section at Robinson Barracks from Feb. ’72 thru Jul. ’74. Can not recall the name of the great pizza type restaurant right across the street. Great views and a great juke box… Buddy Glazner. My email is bglazner@bellsouth.net….

  11. Rod Robinson (Retired MSGT) says:
    January 23, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    I was with VII Corps station at Robinson Barracks from 1981 to 1987 with the VII Data Center that moved from Panzer Kaserne to Wallace Barracks

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  12. leonard Van Bemmel says:
    January 20, 2012 at 5:28 pm

    Stationed in Robinsen barracks with 25th BPO from 56 to 59.would like to hear from any one who remembers me Leonard Van Bemmel Doon Iowa 51235

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  13. Mike Baginy says:
    January 19, 2012 at 6:05 pm

    I came to RB as an Army brat in 1968 when my father was in Vietnam. Went to school at RB for a year, then on to High School at Pattonville. Graduated SAHS in 1972, then moved to Richmond VA.

    I enlisted in 1976, was stationed in Schweinfurt and visited RB a few times. After ETS I stayed in the Stuttgart area and visited RB regularly for coffee and Stars&Stripes in the Snack Bar. It was the “old”, larger Snack Bar then, later the smaller one towards the entrance by the bus stop.

    My father had retired and worked at RB for some years (1980s). Anyone recall Joe Baginy?

    I visited the Colonial Inn regularly and the O-Club. Remember the bar tender, Günther? Remember “Too Tall” and the bingo nights? How about those slot machines in the basement of the O-Club?

    Later, when RB was fenced in and guards wouldn’t let me on post, I no longer had the opportunity of weekend coffee with Stars&Stripes and chats with the retirees. Those were good times (which I didn’t realize at the time). Today RB seems drab and uninteresting. Times change.

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    • Tom Weis says:
      January 31, 2012 at 9:54 pm

      Mike,I was an M.P.stationed in Kornwestheim in1971 and briefly dated a girl
      That you maybe went to school with.Her name is Cheryl McCoy and would have been a sophmore or junior the year you graduated. She lived in Pattonville
      And her dad was a sgt.major E8.Stateside,they were from Killeen Tx.No
      Idea how big that h.s. was or how many kids but what the hell no harm in
      Rappin to ya.Have a good one.peace.

    • Mike Baginy says:
      February 1, 2012 at 11:34 am

      Hey Tom,

      Nice of you to comment! I just looked for Cheryl in my SAHS year book and found her photo. I was class of ’72 and she class of ’73. I can’t say, that I remember her though. We lived on the economy (outside Ludwigsburg) and my school buddies all lived in Heilbronn.

      Kornwestheim has changed, as well as most barracks in and around Ludwigsburg. Most are gone completely, others have been renovated and are now local housing. Osterholz commissary is a supply building for the German Red Cross. RB shopping center and barracks are all gone. School still exists plus most housing and the O-Club.

      I live in Germany (in Bonn) and sometimes take a weekend tour to where I lived in Germany as an Army Brat: Berlin, Bamberg, Schweinfurt, Stuttgart area, Munich. Due to heightened security, I’m forced to view the remaining posts from outside, no being allowed on post. Sad, but a sign of the times.

      Great hearing from you! Always nice corresponding with folks from “back then”. Seems like a trillion years ago. All the best!!

    • Tom Weis says:
      February 1, 2012 at 12:51 pm

      Ach Munchen Eine Zwei Prosit.When I read Munich,that drinking toast,the music,
      The singing and swaying all memories rush back.Those buxomy waitresses
      holding six or more half liter glass steins while navigating through us drunken assholes is a sweet memory.
      You no doubt have gone several times,I however,just once.There were five beer tents.Dinklelacker,Wulle, and Lowenbrau (I stole several and still have four,
      Chipped,but usable) . For five points,what were the other two?
      I shied away from that “brat” word so as not to offend,but Cheryl was a
      D-brat.A skinny fifteen year old should stay away from degenerate G.I.s

      Anyway I retired last year and don’t have work to interfere with this leisure time.

      Why didn’t you re-up ? You must be fluent in German.
      Guten tag

    • Mike Baginy says:
      February 3, 2012 at 9:28 am

      Hi Tom,

      Don’t think any former Military Brats would feel offended. I, at least, am damned proud to have been an Army Brat! Just wish I would have photographed more back then.

      I only visited the Oktober Fest once, many moons ago. It was crowded, it was loud, it was great! I visited the Cannstatter Volksfest (in Bad Cannstatt) more often. It was closer and just as great! By the way, I give up, can’t recall the five beer tents. I’ve also got a few beer mugs from the fests and from the RB O-Club. Fond memories when I drink from them.

      Yep, I speak the local lingo as well as any German. Please don’t remind me – I SHOULD HAVE RE-UPed!!!! Could have been retired with 30 years service six years ago! Actually, I loved Army life. But love made me ETS back in 1980 and my plans never worked out. So it’s still overseas for me.

      Just wish I could read the Stars & Stripes once more while eating a ham & cheese omelet with a cup of coffee at the RB snack bar. Impossible, since that snack bar no longer exists and, as a civilian, post is off limits to me. I guess that shows, we should cherish what we have at the moment. It passes so quickly.

      Have a Guten Tag!

    • Roger Rivers says:
      February 16, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      Hi Mike, Tom told me to ck in w/ya. I was at Patch Sept ’69-Jan ’72. I have a copy of the Stars & Stripes, Friday, Aug.13th, 1971 you can read! but you have to come to Seattle to do it. (It’s turned yellow w/age) I’m thinking of a Vaihingen-Zuffenhausen re-union someplace over bratwurst & weisswurst. Seattle imports this great German beer direct from old Prussia, (not bottled in US)….Pinkus Muller Brauerei, from Munster..ne of Koln. Organic unfiltered Pilsner & a Heifa -weisen. Of course they charge the earth for it, but what the hey..time is short.
      I remember walking down the RB hill several times thru the wineyards to visit a German girlfriend who lived at home near Wallace Bks, across the Neckar from Bad Constatt Hosp. She had two sisters, and a dad who was in the Wehrmacht and was interned in a US p.o.w. camp up near Mannheim 1945-1946. He was quiet & soft spoken around me, it showed he had a lot of memories he was still processing. 1st time as a 19 yr old I realized people had bigger life stories than mine. Really big, really good stories. I miss those days. There but for fortune we could have been stationed in Siberia if Patton had had his way. (just kidding)

    • Mike Baginy says:
      February 20, 2012 at 8:44 am

      Hey Roger,

      Nice of you to write. Sadly, I’ll have to pass on your very generous invitation to read the S&S 1971 edition. Next time I’m on the west coast though, I’ll drop you a line.

      I wasn’t at Patch very often. Though I visited the EUCOM Audio and Photo Club quite often. I was a photo nut (still am) and enjoyed “window shopping” at Patch. Also spent some time at the Rod&Gun Club with my dad. Unfortunately, all that has been tabu for me for decades (since ETS). American passport no longer gives access to post.

      I know the hill through the vineyards you mentioned. Vineyards are still there as well as the former german housing but new streets and buildings mushroomed on the former fields. Haven’t been to Stuttgart for about four years but might take a weekend drive once milder weather sets in.

      I miss AFN radio and don’t care for today’s “AFN Eagle”. Would like to hear the Swap Shop” or the daily “Community Bulletin Board” with their jingles again. AFN was local at that time and well-produced. More of a Family station. I recall AFN Bremerhaven’s last broadcast with the speakers signing off and wishing everyone all the best. A tear-jerkin broadcast for sure.

      I never had the liking for beer that others had. But I know, that some Stuttgart breweries have closed since the 70s. Do you recall the “Schnitzel Factory” in a small town outside of Ludwigsburg? Used to go there after Volksmarches with friends. Giant tasty Schnitzels and mountains of crispy fries – all for just a few DMs. Don’t know if that place still exists.

    • Mike Troyer says:
      February 20, 2012 at 5:57 pm

      To Mike Baginy,

      Sounds like you and I went to the exact same schools at the same times – I went to 8th grade there at RB the same time as you, and then on the Pattonville (I will always hate calling it anything other than “Pattonville High”) – of course, there were a good number of us who were there at those same places at those same times, just thought I might drop you a quick line.

      Spent a total of 13 yrs in Europe, most of it as an Army Brat (a term I am perfectly comfortable with NOW, though many of us were not back then) – anyway, lived at RB for a short time, then moved to Kelly Barracks (HQ VII Corps) and lived there at Kelly while I went to Pattonville – don’t know if you might remember some of the gang from Kelly – Murphy Robinson, Tom Colegrove (my “brother”), Barbara Stockton, Denny, and so many others. Most of us do not remember each other unless we actually lived on the same base together, of course.

      I made many a trek up and down that hill at RB, and fondly remember AFN – we got exactly one hour of rock & roll a week back then, and then each day we MIGHT also get to hear a song or two from the Top 10 – AFN there at RB was well run, I miss the old radio theater shows we heard in the late 50′s through the 60′s on AFN – we were everywhere from Ansbach/Katterbach to Fulda (14th Armored Cav) to Munich to Frankfurt to Stuttgart – we used to hang out at the AYA clubs at Kelly and at Patch from 68-72, especially — since you were there at the same time I imagine you probably did some of the same.

      Anyway, just thought I’d share a post with you, nice to “see” another “Brat” from back then, enjoy your posts & feel free to drop me an email at: mike@troyetrperformance.com

      Take care & good luck!

    • Roger Rivers says:
      March 28, 2012 at 3:31 pm

      Mike Baginy, how is springtime in Stuttgart this year? Here in Seattle spring is almost two weeks late….winter not wanting to give up. Do you know of any bookstores near you that would ship a German Language book to the U.S.? I’m looking for a local shop’s address or email. (Do you ever get over to Scharnhausen?)

  14. Tom Weis says:
    January 5, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    Bratwurst and Wulle beer no doubt kept you healthy.

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  15. ray gossett says:
    October 5, 2011 at 7:10 pm

    hi out there can somebody contact me and let me know if were all the same page from56-thru 59 we had some good times in stuttgart beer -food and the girls and all the army buddies ray gossett

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