#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 of hair cuts, and the occasional celebrity cameo.
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 DeBussy, on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii..The hotel, which includes a PX, was financed entirely by money provided by Exchanges and…
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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 was a longtime military story who was unable to serve in the military–so he created characters who could and did.
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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 have played a role at the Exchange.
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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, flying them into both World Trade Center towers and into the Pentagon. Passengers on United Flight 93 died preventing an…
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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 the United Nations established a PX in the Republic of the Congo. An Exchange associate was put in charge—and he…
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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 Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas, caused more than $30 billion in damage and took more than 30 lives. At the…
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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. It was the first such facility on a military installation in CONUS, opening a new era for automotive care at…
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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 for months before the grand opening.
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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, inspired this look back at the White Sands Missile Range Exchange. Although it opened after World War II, the Exchange’s…