#FlashbackFriday: Some Snips and Clips About Barbers Throughout Exchange History
It’s a history with barber chairs in unusual locations, barbers who’ve given hundreds of thousands…
Flashback Friday
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#FlashbackFriday: October 1975—The Hawaiian Military Resort Exchange Funds Helped Build (and There’s a PX There)
On Oct. 15, 1975—48 years ago this weekend—the Hale Koa resort hotel opened at Fort…
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Flashback Friday: The Comic-Strip Hero Who Told the Exchange Story, and the Military Supporter Who Drew Him
Comic-strip character Steve Canyon helped tell the Exchange’s relevancy story. The man who created him…
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#FlashbackFriday: Let’s Talk About the Elephants in Exchange History
In honor of National Elephant Appreciation Day, here’s a brief look at some elephants that…
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#FlashbackFriday: Stories of Exchange Support After the 9/11 Attacks
Monday will mark the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, when terrorists hijacked jet planes,…
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#FlashbackFriday: 1960—the Exchange Associate Who Ran a U.N. PX in the Congo
One of the more unusual stories of Exchange support began on Sept. 1, 1960, when…
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#FlashbackFriday: August 1992—The Exchange Responds After Hurricane Andrew Devastates Homestead AFB
In August 1992, 31 years ago this week, Hurricane Andrew struck, leaving 250,000 homeless across…
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#FlashbackFriday: 1993—Firestone and the Exchange Begin a Journey of Car Care Service for Military Communities
Thirty years ago this, the Exchange opened Firestone Master Care Car Center at Fort Lewis.…
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#FlashbackFriday: August 1989—The Waco Distribution Center Officially Opens
The DC, about 100 miles south of Dallas, had already been receiving merchandise for processing…
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Flashback Friday: The White Sands Missile Range Exchange and Its Links to the Nuclear and Space Age
The movie “Oppenheimer,” and the approaching anniversaries of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb explosions,…
