Posted on 08/21/2009 8:29:21 AM PDT by Nikas777
I would like to ask if any Freeper lives in a home with a Cold War era bomb shelter?
If so, what is it used for now? Still an emergency shelter or just for storage?
The reason I ask is I live in Queens, NY and growing up in the 80s and 90s I still saw what I assume were Cold War era early warning sirens - painted Green and buildings with the fall out shelter radiation sign.
I visited some of these areas recently and the apartment building that had that used to have that fall out shelter sign no longer displayed it.
I thank you in advance for your time in any response I get.
PS: If you did live in a home with such a fall out shelter I would love to hear a brief recollection of your memory of it. Also welcomed are those that have built or are building a modern survival shelter. How are you building it? Home made? Pre-fabricated? Costs, etc.
The reality is that those drills could have saved lots of lives just a few miles from a blast site.
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WA
House built in ‘63
I’ve been here much longer than indicated on my profile.
Ask whatever.
Pay no attention to the critics.
The Russians are rational - the jihadis and North Koreans are kook burgers.
I am shocked that my request solicited a critical remark - I thank you for your reply.
Even though it is not my era I am very tuned into the America of the past and want to know as much about it as possible.
“Remember the Duck and Cover Drills at school?”
Yep...one of brothers was named “Bert” too! LOL
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Awesome.
Ditto!
Thanks for responding with your recollections.
My Grandpa built a shelter on his property with hidden air intake, toilet, pantry; large enough for our combined families to stay for the projected “2 weeks” of nuclear fallout after a blast. Plus shotgun to keep intruders out.
By the mid-60’s it had become just a large underground pantry.
Considering he was ~60 miles from an air force base in California, I think it was a very good thing to have.
This shelter may interest you.
http://i825.photobucket.com/albums/zz175/castlebravo007/BombShelter.jpg?t=1250871110
I find it amazing how handy that generation was - they could build anything by hand back then it seems.
That looks like the Penthouse suite of shelters!
In 1981 I inspected the last rations of the Cold War Nuclear bomb shelters in the Knoxville, Tennessee, area. The crackers were rotten, the water unpalatable and contaminated and the storage amenities were unusable. The inventories were kept by the Tenn Air Guard at McGee Tyson and spread in several shelters in the Knoxville area.
What is a "bomb shelter"?
Why would I tell you anything like that noob?
On youtube there is a govt film about living in a fall out shelter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Zgyp4HgNU
Were the items in the video similar to what you saw?
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I find this stuff fascinating.
We owned a place here in central Indiana that had a small reinforced concrete shelter underground below an outbuilding. It may have been for tornados also because the house didn’t have a basement. Not really sure about the details because the original owners were dead by the time we bought it.
It was damp in the driest of times and full of water in the spring. I had it filled in when we razed the outbuilding to build a new one.
Did I sit at the wrong table in the Junior High School lunch table or something?
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