Roanoke (CL 145) - Naval Cruise Book

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LIRE TO DRACHMAE TO LIRE By the time We reached Genoa We had become somewhat accustomed to what has aptly been described as our role of governmentfsponsorecl tourist, and We were becoming more critical in the things We Went to see, the things We ate and drank and the things for which we spent our hard cash. We Were hack to the land of the lira from the land of the drachma. We had gone through the 15000 to l phase and now were again on the 625 to l level. No one Was going to fool us this time. The Sicilian proving ground had made us smart. Genoa Was different than anything We'd seen, Here the streets Were clean, and the city had a look I p t ,,ff. yyyay i 4 n Um ' 1 R-Q + - 9.525 lnspection of personnel in Genoa, ltaly, has its sobering effects

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about it of a modern, prosperous city. Down its narrower streets lined with shops ranging from notion shops to the more exclusive leatherfgoods and fur shops we found no dirt or other indications of a poorly administrated City of the 20th century. The many city squares or piazzas were widefspread, well'paved, clean and, at their center, planted with colorful flowers. Here, we thought, was a city, a proper city as the English would say. From the Broadway of Genoa, Via XX Settembre, to the skyscraper dining room in a setting much like the Top Of the Mark, the 1400 and more men of the Roanoke took a look and liked it. Being a city of merchants and business, Genoa is not the great city for sightseeing that, for instance, Rome is. But worthwhile sights are to be found, and in the nine days during which the Roanoke lay at her Mediterranean moor most men who went ashore at all saw Columbus's birthplace, the magnificent and world'renoWned Staglieno Cemetery, the Piazza Della Vittoria, and the Riviera town of Rappollo. These were the sights to be seen, along with the art museums and ancient homes of nobility, hours were spent in browsing until the sun hit the yardarm and the familiar Roanoke haunts began to fill up-the New York, Texas, Scandinavia, or lppo Campo. Our big hope as we went through the days of our stay in Genoa was that Italians visiting America would hnd Americans as warm and friendly to their foreign guests as the Genoese were to us. Une sailor described our stay in Genoa rather tersely, on a post card to his family back in North Carolina, Am line. Will write. Genoa very continental. Awfully busy. Having fun. Broke. Take care. Love, Davief' Christopher Columbus and Kilroy lived kara 37 it A... I.. 'Fx v t + ws 4. w