Anyway, I was a Ensign assigned to the Supply Depot there and in those days an O Club was a good place to be after hours and on Saturdays. I don’t remember too much but in a tall glass over ice cubes – not too big – like from an ice machine. goes the rum, dark or light but light favored, lemonaid, and garnish. Again I may be wrong on this – I just drank them. A few times too many.

They cost a dime. A bottle of rum from Puerto Rico was something like $1.10. I think they were liter bottles. No rum from Cuba after Fidel came to power but before then I was told it was like a dollar or two for a jug – 1/2 gallon? Basket around it? That was before my time. I was there in 1967-68. First tour of duty. We didn’t attach the word cocktail to it either!