The aerial photo below shows how the Mess Hall looked in 2005. It's seems somewhat odd the mess hall would have survived demolition.
Just imagine how many meals were served in this one mess hall alone. 5000 recruits x 3 meals/day x 365 days = 5,375,000 meals in one year during WWII. .
The "H" shaped building at the bottom is HUNTER HALL constructed circa 1967 to serve as Wave barracks.
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A 2010 photo of the mess hall taken from nearly the same spot as Dorothy Montgomery's 1963 photo above.
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USNTC Bainbridge -- Mess Hall Interior April 1943.
The menu sign read "soup de jour" every day, I wasn't having any of it, didn't sound appetizing to me.
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USNTC Bainbridge -- Great image of the First Regiment Grinder Taken by Dorothy Montgomery while in recruit training in fall of 1963.
The F4U-2 Corsair fighter plane on the grinder is an air intercept variant it was modified with a radar pod on the right wing, I recall an episode of the "Black Sheep Squadron" on TV about the radar modification.
In the late 1940's as a young boy I assembled a model of the Corsair. .
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USNTC Bainbridge -- F4U-2 Corsair on 1st Regiment Grinder, Date unkown.
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USNTC Bainbridge -- First Regiment Grinder and Mess Hall Building 102 circa November 1957.
Male recruit training would end at Bainbridge NTC in December 1957, so it is very likely this recruit would have been one of the last recruits to graduate.                ▼
USNTC Bainbridge -- First Regiment Grinder Graduation Day in 1954.
This photo represents the essence of what occurred at Bainbridge, parents proudly and happily turning their son over to the US Navy. Lives changed forever. .
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USNTC Bainbridge -- First Regiment Drill Hall Building 101, circa ????, however a 1940's automobile parked beside the drill indicates the 1040's .
Lower portion of Drill Hall 101. The swimming pool was at this end of the building.
It's apparent the grinder itself had quite a slope to it judging by how fast it is falling in comparison to the level drill hall.
The original grinder was of gravel construction, perhaps the slope to aid in drainage?.
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