Mike,
We lived in Bermuda 45 years ago, chief of surgery (and the only surgeon) at Kindley AFB. The memories are somewhat distant but I remember being constantly cold and damp in the winter as we lived on the economy in a limestone home in Padget, heated only by a fireplace. In those days, take home pay for a board certified surgeon with nine years of "constructive credit" was in the range of seven hundred dolars a month. Not much left over, in a family of seven, for firewood. The bed sheets were always damp. What a pleasure when we moved on base with kerosine heaters. Of course. those were the days when a chief resident made four hundred a month before then took out 75 for living in a one bedroom cottage on the hospital grounds at LA County. Hurray for Black Seal rum and coke and prices at the O Club.
Bart Spitz
Hi, Bart...
Thanks so much! Sounds like it was a pretty rough time... Glad you made it out of there...
I might wait until the warmer weather...
Mike