124th Anniversary Month: See How Our Restaurants Looked Years Ago
Years before name-brand restaurants came to the Exchange, we operated our own cafeterias, snack bars and soda foundations. Here are some tasty samplings:
Sidewalk Cafe, Fort Dix, 1973
Fort Carson cafeteria
Camp Roberts, early 1950s. The installation now belongs to the California National Guard.
A Fort Riley pizza restaurant in 1972.
Tokyo PX dining room, 1947
Yokohama PX, Japan, 1950
An original Exchange-brand restaurants, 1980s.
Fort Jackson restaurant with female carhops, 1950
Vietnam Regional Exchange restaurant, 1968.
AAFES' Run-in Chef, Germany, circa 1975
Albrook, Panama, 1954
Original AAFES-exclusive brands, 1980s
Patrick AFB cafeteria, grand opening, 1951
Post exchange snack bar, the Philippines, 1948
Three logos of first Exchange-brand restaurants, mid-1980s
Fort Bragg's Italian Gardens, date not available
Fort Sill soda fountain, 1949
AAFES Burger Barn, Europe, early 1980s.
A post exchange's cafeteria workers and managers, possibly in Europe, 1950s.
Camp Cooke, now known as Vandenberg AFB
Yokohama PX restaurant, Japan, early 1950s
AAFES-exclusive Frank's Franks, Lowry AFB, 1992
Fort Bliss, main cafeteria, 1949
I love these old pictures! I have some from the 90’s & late 80’s !
We love them too, Charles!
I always used to go to Franks Franks as a kid and my mom always got Robin Hood sandwiches. Miss these places.