Silly Games at a Farewell Party in Yokohama’s Foreign Community in 1963

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yoko-1963_0007There was a lot of drinking and playing games in Yokohama’s foreign community when I was growing up in the early 1960s and 1970s. Sometimes the games involve drinks.

I came across some fun pictures of some of the games. yoko-1963_0004 yoko-1963_0005yoko-1963_0002 This was a farewell party at the home of my friend Ian Harvey’s parents. in 1963. The man on the floor in the middle picture with a glass of Scotch on his forehead is my father Don Helm.

The picture of the three men doing the “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” thing was at a New Years party at the Chuzenji Kanaya Hotel. Nikko, close to Chuzenji, is the site of the shrine that has the carving of the three wise monkeys. The “hear no evil” man is Mr. Murray, whose sons, Chris and Nicholas, were our friends. They always had great parties in Tokyo. I remember one New Years Eve when they organized a very elaborate scavenger hunt all over town. We teenagers had a lot to drink and enjoyed wandering about the city.


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