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CLUB OPERATIONS

The ballroom of the Rocker Enlisted Club can
fit up to 800 people and be separated into
three different rooms.

to Feinberg.
The Rocker NCO Club served the com-
munity until the early morning hours of
Jan. 1, 2016, when it closed after holding
its last event, a New Year’s Eve party.
When the original Rocker
closed its doors, its services
were temporarily parceled
out to other club facilities on
base. One of these sites was the
Skoshi Rocker, an adults-only
club that featured bingo, slot
Kadena AB residents tour the Rocker Enlisted Club’s game room, machines and a beverage and snack bar.
which features more than 80 entertainment slot machines. The rest of the operations at the Rocker, includ-
PHOTOS: SENIOR AIRMAN OMARI BERNARD, USAF ing the T-Bones Dining Room, the Daily Grind Cof-
fee Shop and the Weekend Enlisted Club Lounge,
first club on Kadena was called the Stillwell Club, which was were transferred to the Banyan Tree Club for the
constructed in 1949 after World War II. construction duration.
This facility evolved into the Rocker NCO Club, and it But in the new Rocker, those features have re-
became a popular mainstay of the installation, serving be- turned, some with new names, in a more modern,
tween 200 and 500 customers on average per day, according up-to-date setting.

“Skoshi” means “little” in Japanese.
‘Little’ Skoshi Rocker Japan, over during construction of the new Rocker Enlisted
The aptly named Skoshi Rocker helped tide Kadena AB,
Club, but now that the sleek new club is in full operation, its
Does ‘BIG’ Business little version can still hold its own as an entertainment venue.
The Skoshi Rocker is an adults-only entertainment facility
conveniently located between Emery Lanes and Chili’s Grill

14 MILITARY CLUB & HOSPITALITY | JUNE 2018