Under the Hood Café
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Under the Hood Café was a coffee house located at 17 South College Street in Killeen, Texas. It provided services for soldiers located at Fort Hood, one of the largest American military installations
Photo from grand opening of Under the Hood Cafe
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Oleo Strut (coffeehouse)
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The Oleo Strut was a GI coffeehouse located in Killeen, Texas, from 1968 to 1972. Like its namesake, a shock absorber in the landing gear of most large aircraft and many smaller ones, the Oleo Strut’s
Under the Hood Café
…The coffeehouse closed its doors in 2015. Under the Hood Cafe described itself as being part of the tradition of The Oleo Strut, a famous GI coffee house during the Vietnam war. The cafe continued in this tradition by hosting the Fort Hood chapter of Iraq Veterans Against the…
The Oleo Strut anti-war GI coffeehouse in 1971. Photo by Alan Pogue