Author Topic: NTC Orlando (Read 48762 times)

Fermi2 · « **on:** Jul 17, 2004, 07:41 »

I may be posting this in the incorrect forum, if so I apologize.

When I left NPS Orlando I was given a class picture along with a great picture of an overhead shot of "our" end of the base. It seems it's lost in our attic someplace. My little girl (well she's 11) has been showing a big interest in where Daddy went to Nuke school. I wanted to show her the actual base itself but it's gone. The closest I can find of a picture of the school is the shot taken just after the base closed. It's looking through the gate (opens on Bennett Street) by the part of the school where we spent our first 12 weeks. You can see some of the some of that portion of the school.

Does anyone have a good photo of NPS Orlando???

Mike

Druid · « **Reply #1 on:** Jul 17, 2004, 08:24 »

This isn't the best, but at Terraserver I zoomed in on a 1999 aerial photo of the area.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=1&s=10&x=2338&y=15796&z=17&w=2

And this is a photo from 2002 part way thru the demolition.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/image.aspx?t=4&s=12&x=584&y=3949&z=17&w=2

Hope this helps a little.

Fermi2 · « **Reply #2 on:** Jul 17, 2004, 08:55 »

That's great man. THANKS (Although I didn't much like seeing her all toren down in picture 2.

Here's the one I mentioned.

http://www.overall.org/NTC-Orlando/15.JPG

Mike

taterhead · « **Reply #3 on:** Mar 17, 2005, 06:52 »

oh, the memories.

I miss school daze.

Hoss · « **Reply #4 on:** Feb 04, 2006, 07:08 »

I took my wife to field engineer's conference in 2003 in Orlando. I knew the base was closed, but i wanted to show her where the school was. I didn't know how deeply affected I was going to be until I could find no trace left of an important part of my life. After driving through the new housing development, we went to go find some lunch. I was almost as crushed to find out that Skeeter's restaurant doesn't exist anymore, either.

War Eagle · « **Reply #5 on:** Mar 05, 2006, 03:08 »

Quote from: Hoss on Feb 04, 2006, 07:08

I took my wife to field engineer's conference in 2003 in Orlando. I knew the base was closed, but i wanted to show her where the school was. I didn't know how deeply affected I was going to be until I could find no trace left of an important part of my life. After driving through the new housing development, we went to go find some lunch. I was almost as crushed to find out that Skeeter's restaurant doesn't exist anymore, either.

I know what you mean. I took the family to Disney in Jan 2005 and stopped by NTC; not a trace. They do have a nice park with a fountain where the RTC grinders used to be. Its called BlueJacket's Park.

Gamecock · « **Reply #6 on:** May 25, 2008, 08:24 »

Came across these pictures the other day....

For those of you that were Orlando RTC, NFAS, and NNPS alumni, I hope they bring back some fond memories (they did for me).

I was there for Boot camp starting 10 October 1990 and I left after graduating from nuke school the day before Thanksgiving 1991.

Enjoy

http://overall.org/NTC-Orlando/ntc.html

JustinHEMI05 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 25, 2008, 09:35 »

Nice find, thanks! What is there now, if anything? Last time I looked at google earth of the area it was bare.

Justin

Fermi2 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 25, 2008, 02:06 »

A huge subdivision with a bunch of million dollar homes. They're packed together real tight. It's been that way since at least late 2003.

Mike

G-reg · « **Reply #9 on:** May 25, 2008, 03:35 »

Wow! Doesn't that bring back some memories? I still remember stepping off the plane and piling into the bus bound for RTC Orlando on that hotter-than-hell day back in July (of 1987, of course...).

Thanks for cranking up the ol' Way Back Machine!

- Greg

JustinHEMI05 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 26, 2008, 03:55 »

Quote from: Broadzilla on May 25, 2008, 02:06

A huge subdivision with a bunch of million dollar homes. They're packed together real tight. It's been that way since at least late 2003.

Mike

Never understood why folks would spend hundreds of thousands or millions on a house then pack it into a tight area with other similar houses.

Would be cool to see though, but I don't see myself ever going to Florida again.

Justin

Wirebiter · « **Reply #11 on:** May 26, 2008, 06:15 »

Great pictures. Boot camp had been closed for a few years by the time I got there. Those pictures still bring back a lot of memories.

Here is a little more info on old NTC, with a little info on what was built in its place.

http://www.cfhf.net/orlando/military/ntc.htm

-Rob

anthonyalsup · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2008, 04:03 »

I was actually in that last Power School class to graduate from Orlando (9806). Can't believe that was 10 years ago. By the time we left, that place was a ghost town. They had already started knocking down the old RTC and Yeoman school side. I think they locked it up when we hit the gate.

blackballedsnake · « **Reply #13 on:** May 29, 2008, 03:40 »

I did my boot and BEEPers school there. (fall '85-spring '86)

I joined up as a conventional ET. (I was actually qualified to go "nuke"...but chose the other option.)

Go figger, I ended up in the biz anyway!

Anyhoo...My barracks was across the way from the Navy Nuke barracks. Them guyz had some cool R.C. "projects" that would zip around the grounds and parking lots!

On the other hand, the stresses from the nuke school took their tolls...a sailor committed suicide, and several "stress related" incidences occurred.

I had returned to Florida 18 years later (2004) for a little "getaway" in Clearwater.

My traveling companions wanted to go to Orlando to hook up with some old friends.

I couldn't believe my eyes!!

What happened to all of the orange groves that were due west of Orlando!!

WOW! I have a lot of good memories of the 'ol RTC/NTC.

Have times changed that much in only 18 years??

I suppose so, eh? Peace!

Wirebiter · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2008, 10:36 »

Quote from: anthonyalsup on May 28, 2008, 04:03

I was actually in that last Power School class to graduate from Orlando (9806). Can't believe that was 10 years ago. By the time we left, that place was a ghost town. They had already started knocking down the old RTC and Yeoman school side. I think they locked it up when we hit the gate.

I heard stories that everything was shut down. Not even the E-club or the exchange was operating. Was the galley even open then?
Did they have one of your classmates turn the lights out as they left the building,

?

-Rob

Wirebiter · « **Reply #15 on:** May 31, 2008, 10:59 »

Part of the old base was converted into a yuppy paradise called Baldwin Park. I looked through some of these photos, and the one with the tree caught my attention. Does that look like the one that used to be outside the E-club?
There is also a middle school on the grounds, so at least somebody is still getting educated there.

They named the park "Blue Jacket Park". I wonder how many people hear that and go..."what the hell is a bluejacket!?"

http://www.baldwinparkfl.com/web/photogallery.asp

-Rob

JustinHEMI05 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 31, 2008, 11:16 »

Wow, pretty nice!

Justin

mooredee13 · « **Reply #17 on:** Jun 02, 2008, 09:08 »

Inquiring minds want to know: is The Foxhole (strip club outside the back gate) still open?!?!?!

LaFeet · « **Reply #18 on:** Jun 02, 2008, 09:28 »

Amazing how things have changed... I was in 8102 Nuke class.. also did my Boot and 1st half of BEE school in Orlando.

I remember roller skating the walkways and circle around Nuke School... ahhh the early drunken times of my life... no concerns about cholesterol, cardiac arrest, body fat percentage or aids.....

Wonder how much money the Government lost out on the property value??

Loffy Muffin · « **Reply #19 on:** Jun 02, 2008, 02:58 »

I lived in Orlando when they leveled the old NTC. the only way I knew where I was at was based on the "lakes". They put in these overpriced condos going for 300k and up. Joke.

Foxhole? Nice place. I think I gave one of the dancers there a buck to lay a lip-lock on my unsuspecting buddy. Those dancers would do anything and I mean anything. Never went home without a smile from that place. Of course, all of OBT was like that. anything goes...all you can drink for 5 bucks. they didn't enforce DUI or open containers back then. Getting hammered nightly, driving around in a jeep with a case on ice was SOP. Never gave it a second thought to drink and drive.

Foxhole is long gone. OBT is just dumpy and about as much fun as a stick in the eye. Rosie OGradys used to be a good place to pick up unsuspecting tourists chicks that didn't know how deranged us swabbies were. that place went Bankrupt, not sure what happened to it. It was just sitting there closed.

xobxdoc · « **Reply #20 on:** Jun 03, 2008, 08:38 »

Rosies went belly up when Pleasure Island at Disney and City Walk at Universal opened.

ScottCandelore · « **Reply #21 on:** Sep 26, 2009, 08:16 »

Quote

Wow! Doesn't that bring back some memories? I still remember stepping off the plane and piling into the bus bound for RTC Orlando on that hotter-than-hell day back in July (of 1987, of course...).

Yes, memories of "back in the day" -- photos are a trip down memory lane.

Creeker · « **Reply #22 on:** Sep 30, 2009, 08:52 »

Couple memories... Out on Hwy 50, West of Semoran, was a Mazda dealership, where I bought my first car, a little 626. Tony Diamond was the salesman, as smooth as they came, and we read later in the Orlando Slatinal that he was busted in some kind of coke deal.

Next, anyone remember Hot Dog Heaven out on 50, or the Chili Bordello? Palm trees, cool breezes, and muggy weather... Oh, and the 49th Aero-squadron restaurant, out by that little executive airport. And last, but not least, Rachel's, out by Sam's club. The exception to the rule that you should never eat the buffet at a strip club!

AND.... A place called Dixie Crossroads, with Rock Shrimp, out by Titusville.

NukeLDO · « **Reply #23 on:** Sep 30, 2009, 09:19 »

the Wunderbar in the mall (real german beer and brats)
The Thirsty Gator (coldest longnecks, great gumbo, and oysters on the 1/2 shell as fast you could could suck them down)
Negril Cove...the best in reggae every Friday night

anthonyalsup · « **Reply #24 on:** Oct 13, 2009, 11:44 »

The rock shrimp at Dixie Crossroads was ridiculous. I'm glad you brought that up. I've been trying to remember the name of that place.

Fermi2 · « **Reply #25 on:** Oct 14, 2009, 04:02 »

How about the guy in every class who fell in love and married a stripper? I knew a stripper there who was so marriable she'd been married to sailors 3 times. !!!

1way · « **Reply #26 on:** Oct 16, 2009, 07:47 »

Completed Nuke school there in Orlando October of 1985...lots of good memories. Never had the chance to see the place again. Thanks to all who posted pictures. I remember all us getting excited every weekend when the waves
got out of bootcamp there. Spent a lot of time at the club on base shooting pool (can't recall the name of the club on base next to Nuke school...might have been the Mariner). And who can forget the strippers. I had the misfortune of being awakened in the middle of the night by the bunk mate below me who had managed to get one on the base and into the dorm. They had a good time, but it made for a sleepless night for the rest of us!!

LaFeet · « **Reply #27 on:** May 11, 2010, 11:17 »

Huh and I thought I was weird playing Riff Raff on stage for the Rocky Horror Picture Show Saturday Nights at the theater off Colonial.

I do miss the all the beer and wine you could drink at the skating rinks (Tues -Fri), that was a great place to pick up chicks.......... ahhhhh the days of my stupid youth

crusemm · « **Reply #28 on:** May 11, 2010, 05:19 »

Quote from: LaFeet on May 11, 2010, 11:17

Huh and I thought I was weird playing Riff Raff on stage for the Rocky Horror Picture Show Saturday Nights at the theater off Colonial.

I do miss the all the beer and wine you could drink at the skating rinks (Tues -Fri), that was a great place to pick up chicks.......... ahhhhh the days of my stupid youth

When were you there? I probably saw you up on stage.

We never went to the skating rink, usually went to this little dive bar right next to that same theatre, where sfor some reason they let us drink, even though we were all under age.

LaFeet · « **Reply #29 on:** May 12, 2010, 12:28 »

I was in class 8102 I was there for about 4 months prior to staring school. Left in March of 81.

Jgutierrez · « **Reply #30 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 08:16 »

Hey guys, I moved to Winter park as a child and I remember seeing that ship and all of those buildings behind a wire fence and I knew it was a naval base, but the place always looked creepy all abandoned, I remember watching the USS Bluejacket getting demolished and I remember the new Middle School being built, I was the the first class to go through that school. There are still some old navy buildings left in the area, An abandoned VA is left in urban decay( teenagers sneak in and party on the roof top), there are a few administrative buildings in the area used as offices now. its half park half fancy expensive homes.. there is also a water treatment facility that is still in use. I just looked up some old photos of the place and even though I was a 9 year old I still think its crazy that there was a navy base in that area. If you guys need any photos of the place i'd be happy to take pictures, though it is a park, there are still a few buildings left.

co60slr · « **Reply #31 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 10:25 »

Quote from: Marssim on Oct 17, 2010, 10:11

that's a pretty cool sentiment,...

(I'm not as old as Marlin and have never used that "groovy" ad word, then again, I don't think Marlin ever made it to RTC or NTC Orlando)

I wished I hadn't read this thread. (Laughing). Someone says "Hey, as a kid I saw them tear down your old base". Seems like when "I" was a kid, I was walking into NPS Orlando all starry-eyed with nuclear.

Seems like just yesterday. (sniff, sniff). :-)

C'mon...someone make us feel better and tell us about NPS in Bainbridge, CA.

I never knew (until just now) that NPS was originally in CT before Bainbridge. Interesting....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power_School

MMM · « **Reply #32 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 06:41 »

I knew about NPS being at Mare Island, but not about Bainbridge. Co60, I'm with you, although it seems a little longer than yesterday since I went there.

HydroDave63 · « **Reply #33 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 09:08 »

All the talk of demolished Nuke School, and the adventures of the Cold War gone by, reminds me of Dana Andrews sentimental journey to the scrapyard...

co60slr · « **Reply #34 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 09:48 »

Here's another "oldie, but goodie": Where do all the old reactor compartments go?

Process: http://home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/chop.htm

Satellite Photo: http://home.flash.net/~tomj/tunny/chop/200Ehighup.JPG

I found it on Bing, but when I tried to paste the actual photo, IE crashed. So, for extra credit, find area 200E on the map and find your old RC, if you're bored.

Answer key: http://navsource.org/archives/08/100/0857524.jpg

Enjoy. :-)

HydroDave63 · « **Reply #35 on:** Oct 17, 2010, 10:01 »

Quote from: Marssim on Oct 17, 2010, 09:13

I'm ignorant on this reference,.....

What's the story?

(good b&w still picture though)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036868/

Dana Andrews having a flashback of his bombardier days, when seeing the thousands of B-17s being scrapped in 1946 to make houses and travel trailers.

Higgs · « **Reply #36 on:** Jun 01, 2011, 10:05 »

Sorry for the thread necro, but found another good site focusing on the RTC side of things. I was feeling nostalgic for the Navy tonight and was checking out google earth of my birth place as a nuke and found this site and didn't see it posted yet.

http://rtcorlando.homestead.com/

Author Topic: NTC Orlando (Read 48762 times)

Fermi2

Druid

Fermi2

taterhead

Hoss

JustinHEMI05

Fermi2

JustinHEMI05

Wirebiter

blackballedsnake

Wirebiter

Wirebiter

JustinHEMI05

mooredee13

LaFeet

ScottCandelore

Fermi2

LaFeet

LaFeet

Jgutierrez

co60slr

co60slr