Posted on 08/21/2009 8:29:21 AM PDT by Nikas777
K.I. Sawyer? My family moved to Marinette County Wisconsin in the mid fifties. My brothers and I used to work in the woods cutting pulp wood (poplar) for the paper mills and "chemical" wood (scrub oak) for the Kingsford Chemical Company which made charcoal. Every once in a while we would find aluminum "chaff" where we we working as there were practicing penetration runs trying to evade the radar pickets (one was in Norway MI) protecting the base.
One day we were out cleaning up slash piles when a B-52 flew over at treetop level. It reached from horizon to horizon and flew so low I'd swear you could count the rivets. The noise was like the end of the world and it was gone in a heartbeat. I will never forget the experience.
Did you know that K.I. Sawyer did not appear on any UP maps? I drove right past the main entrance and the map only showed open country.
Regards,
GtG
There are a couple of them still left in the county around here. I ought to really go photograph them before they no longer exist. Because of ‘development’ one of them has a road going by right in front of it where a very rudimentary road cuts off the highway.
There are a lot of ‘twisters’ out here!
My granny’s had canned goods, seating and kerosene lamp. This was right in Tulsa. I’m now in ‘rural’ Texas.
No fallout shelter, but I have many of the contents:
“Food and Water for One Person for 10 Days,” packed in 1961. The box is open, but the contents are 100% intact. I also have a case of canned water from the same era.
I have a transistor radio, which was a fallout shelter requirement. It has the “Conelrad” markings on the dial.
I have dozens of government pamphlets... “YOU Can Survive a Nuclear Attack,” etc.
I have a geiger counter, and a few other Cold War artifacts.
Whenever the mood strikes me, I enjoy watching “Atomic Cafe” on my Philco Predicta.
I was eight years old in 1961, and I was absolutely TERRIFIED of the siren the town tested every Saturday at noon. I developed a phobia of our basement.
I have no recollection at all of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and I watched alot of television.
By the way, welcome to FR!
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