Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 19
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Turner:When you say one out of three, do you mean you could get
one night out of every three?
Yes. Yes, there'd be three sections. In other words,
the ship's cut into three sections.
Three-section liberty.
Right, three-section liberty. Before that, we had two-
section liberty.
So it would be very rare, then, that you would get a
complete weekend.
Yes, after the fleet came out there.
When you went on liberty, what was your routine? What
would you and your brother usually do?
Oh, we'd usually catch a bus or taxi over to Honolulu.
Pearl Harbor's about twelve or fifteen miles out of
Honolulu. In Pearl City and those other little towns
around Pearl Harbor, there wasn't nothing there,
probably one beer joint or a filling station, so we all
had to go into Honolulu to get any kind of liberty, or
Waikiki Beach, if we wanted to go down on the beach.
Down there we usually went to a movie or went to a club
and drank or went to restaurants and ate. That's aboutthe only thing there was to do.
Of what significance are Hotel and Canal Streets? What
do you remember about them?
Well, Hotel Street was the old street that all the
movies and the restaurants were on. The YMCA was on19
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/21/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.