My parents, brother and sister called Green Park apartments in Tokyo, Japan their home for a short time when they lived overseas in the 1950s. Built around 1953, the complex had everything families would need under one roof – a post exchange, a movie theater, club for teens, etc.
For more information about Green Park, please visit Green Park photo essay featured on the Japan Brats website (which is also a very cool site to peruse if you happened to spend a lot of growing up years in Japan as a military brat – I’m looking at my sister here!)
This was an amazing place to live; go downstairs from our apartment to eat dinner in the club; shop at the PX (as it was known back in the day); go to the movie theater or use the services of the beauty shop to be pampered with a manicure and/or have your hair “done”. My girlfriend and I would do the hula hoop thing out in the spacious foyers or get a suntan on the roof (where all the clotheslines were – no dryers back then). I have very fond memories of Green Park. Love reading your blog. Your Sis.