I had one of those shocks of recognition earlier this evening. There was on the TV screen, in glorious colour, the Troodos holiday camp in the mountains of Cyprus in which our army family spent an enjoyable week on my father's leave in the early 1950s. It turns out that the camp was run by the NAAFI (the Naval, Army and Air Force Institutes) and the sequence appeared in a Rank Look At Life short, part of a series being shown on Talking Pictures TV.
It was a worthwhile reminder of what a large and sophisticated organisation the NAAFI was. It was not quite as grand as the American PX, but claimed to provide an equivalent service. It even provided its own range of pop including a cola, which it has to be said was not as flavoursome as the two big proprietary brands.
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