We’ve got provisions and lots of beer.
The key word is Survival on the New Frontier.
In the days before expiration dates were put on food. Also today you’d be accused of hoarding if you prepare for emergencies. I wonder how many people are prepared to survive for a week or two?
SPAM? Well...that’s more than we have now. Our gov’t demi-gods all have shelters they can run to...the rest of us? SOL.
I’d rather fry in the initial blast...like that old poster says “then kiss your ass goodbye”. Works for me.
I used to have a copy of that book, THE FAMILY FALLOUT SHELTER.
I had occasion to work for a week at a Swiss affiliate a few years back.
Small factory in an obscure valley.
They had a fully stocked BLAST shelter, not merely a fallout shelter, in their basement.
It could survive a Hiroshima sized event 300 m from ground zero.
Obscure valley, scarcely a prime target.
Unless they allow themselves to be overrun by “refugees” the Swiss will survive us all.
How times change. Anyone with a bunker now days is considered a kook.
Spam is an acronym for “Spoiled and Putrefied Animal Meat.
At home I call baloney “floor sweeps”, because I read a few years back that’s exactly what a meat packer used. Whatever fell on the floor. Other reject such as eyeballs, tongue, and other unmentionables too good to throw away were used by others.
A related short story by Philip K. Dick.
I don’t know what color of acid he was dropping, but this tab hit the spot:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster,_You%27re_Dead!
I remember ads on TV for fall out shelters during the Cuban missile crisis. Interesting times.
I don’t see any guns.
I grew up about ten miles from Westover AFB, which at the time was a SAC Base with B52s.
When I got to fifth grade I finally had a teacher who explained the truth about our chances of surviving a nuclear attack. Her husband was a BUFF pilot.
She told us that there were probably at least three or four bombs targeted on our city, which also housed the Springfield Armory.
We did not do many duck and cover drills after that.
No guns or ammo in those pictures.
If you survived them before you must be immune.
Ping.
Such memories! LOL!
Along about 1960 I bicycled to a friend’s house in my neighborhood and a backhoe was busy digging up their back yard. I asked my friend if they were getting a pool and he said no, they were getting a fallout shelter.
Later I asked my dad (a WWII vet) if he was going to put in a shelter too.
He said, “What house are you talking about exactly?” When I told him, he said, “We don’t need a shelter, because I have a gun and if we ever need a shelter, I know where to get one.”
I actually have a copy of “Nuclear War Survival Skills,” signed by the author, Cresson Kearney. I interviewed him while working for a newspaper in Colorado and he gave me the book as a keepsake.
I was always of the opinion that Little Debbie’s snack foods were the perfect bomb shelter survival food because of the amount of preservatives and other chemicals they contain.
i love those old pictures.
We are going to find out a lot of “old timers” were right about many many things.