Wreckers prepare to tear down the former Rocker Four building in downtown Tokyo which during the 1950s housed the biggest U.S. military club in the world. It will be replaced by a modern office building. The Rocker Four Club opened its doors July 4, 1952, during the Korean War and in its 6 years of existance was the biggest - and to many the swingingest - NCO club in the world before closing its doors in March 1958. The Romanesque building with a 58,592 square-feet inside floor space housed two ballrooms, four bars, as well as several restaurants and snackbars. The biggest and most popular club made so much money in its heyday that free-drink and steak-dinner nights became a regular feature.

Teruhiko Kikuchi, © 1965, 2018 Stars and Stripes , All Rights Reserved | BUY THIS PHOTO