Missouri folks...

Any of you from or know anyone in these towns around Ft Leonard Wood?

Newburg
Richland
Dixon
Roby (and some of the other towns out the back gate)
And out highway 17 (? next exit off 44 SW of FLW)
also supposed to be a stock car track in the area , anyonehang out there?

Made some friends when I was stationed there about 20 years ago and wondering if any of them are still around.

I don't want post names on the net and I'm not trying to track anyone down, just would like to know if they are still there and maybe pass of my contact info to them.

If you are in the area and know some folks, you can email me from the modern view or at

[email protected]

Thanks,


Dave

Ihey have not left. They are small places I would ride around on a motorcycle while at Fort Leonard Wood. I recall coming in through the South Gate in 1980 and getting a ticket from the MP's for not wearing a full face shield. A helmet was required by Missouri law but the face shield was a post regulation. Outside the main gate at St. Robert was where the pawn shops and massage parlors were. At the south end of the post was the Bloodland Lake. At one time before the building of the post, Bloodland, now covered by the lake, was a thriving community.

Did 9 weeks in 1960. Worked for NCR 1967- 1971 lived in Rolla, worked Post and St Robert, Waynesville about 3 days a week. My late wife was from Rolla, St James area, Delivered auto parts over night 1997-2005 Richland, Crocker, Dixon, Rolla, St. James, Waynesville. Still go see late wifes kin one or twice a year at Rolla, St James area. The last time I was on Ft. Lost in the woods was spring 1997.

Spent almost 18 months there from about April 1967 to June of '68. Coldest I have ever been was walking guard duty in February. Waynesville was the "ladies" hang out. I was married and lived off base just outside the gate a few miles.I was amazed at how much Waynesviille grew when I was through there a couple years ago.

Larry in Michigan

The base has been snowed in for the last two days. DIL works on base and she has been told to stay home. Considered "non-essential" That always makes you feel good doesn't it?


Gene

That was the coldest and the hottest I'd ever been in my life when I was there from January to July. Then went back later for 2 1/2 years. Loved it there.


Dave

I did my Combat Engineer AIT at Fort Leonard Wood in 1964 after taking my basic training at Fort Knox. They told us not to bring a car along but I did anyway and parked it off base. The old car wouldn't start good so when we had a week end off, we would get another buddy to give us a push start and then leave it running all day. It was an automatic. We were running on a thread. )

Funny thing happened to me at Ft. Leonard Wood. In the late 1990’s I was working for a contractor training the National Guard hazardous materials response teams from all over the country how to handle hazardous materials incidents.

Later, not long after 9/11, I made a trip back to MO to pick up an Oliver tractor. While passing through St. Roberts, I remembered a nice Japanese restaurant I had eaten at several times while I was there in the past. I was telling my buddy about it and showing off my local knowledge.

The restaurant was on the road leading up to the main gate, several blocks back from the gate. So here I was pulling a trailer with an old Oliver farm tractor on and before I knew it, I pulled right up to the heavily fortified main gate. The MP’s came out of the woodwork with automatic weapons pointed at us. We had a hell of a time explaining to the MP’s what were doing there. Finally we were able to make a U turn got the hell out of there. My buddy was not impressed with my local knowledge.

Seems they had moved the main gate into the post about 3 miles further up the road. The Japanese restaurant was nowhere to be found.

Anyone know of a nice restaurant called The Point. A very nice family runs it and catered to the folks I was working with. I spent Thanksgiving there with them one year.

2 stock car tracks at Lebanon, Mo (I44 and Midway speedways) about 30 miles west of Fort Wood. Mike