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They're all dead --

 

That must have been before my time.

 

Probably so. Let me help you out. The Gubbermint has never been interested in protecting us.

 

Interesting how the Government viewed Civil Defense and protecting the Citizens in the late 40s, 50s and early 60s.
I remember field trips to the Government Fallout shelters in town and the yellow and black Radiation Signs up on all the building that had shelters in their basements.

Now if you try to prepare, you're an enemy of the Government.

Jungle Wok

 

I worked with a nurse in the '80s who was in the AF back in the day. IIRC the test she witnessed up close and personal was in NV. She had the pics to prove it and souvenirs from the event as well. I just can't imagine - a nuclear test being the social event of the season.

 

There is still a civil defense ---isn't that what they call all those FEMA camps? --yeah, i know i' sick and twisted.....

 

As an aspiring shift supervisor for the projected regional FEMA collection camp, with Friday/Saturday off, I really do want to help.

So there...

We'll revisit this discussion about your attitude when you're in the camp, Citizen.

 

I just showed my students Bert the Turtle on YouTube the other day...we all had a good laugh: http://youtu.be/IKqXu-5jw60

 

Always bumped my head scrambling under the desk --

Duck - cover - bend over and kiss your arse goodbye :

 

Wow. I remember the audio quality from those CD films. Yeah, diving under the desk, learning how to build fallout shelters and being given handouts to take home to the parents. It was kinda real.

I still have some steel drums with lids that the Civil Defense gave to people for water storage, with instructions for reuse Asa latrine when the water is used. They make good storage containers.....

 

You mean back when over 40% of the federal budget went to defense and the budget was still tiny compared to today? Those were the days before most Americans stopped working and grabbed a government nipple. They were also the days before people complained about Reagan spending a whopping 15% of the federal budget on defense (actually Congress while he was president).

 

1962 and 63 I remember the bomb drills and getting under the desk and covering our faces.
We started digging a basement in our home near LA but we never finished it .
Parents bought a place in the mountains, I guess you could say that became the BOL.

 

Do you remember where all the shelters were? The signs are gone now... or we've moved to new areas... but I remember at least one, where I went to high school.

 

"Remember those duck-n-cover films they showed in elementary school. Footage of real life explosions? Goats and monkeys flying through the air, the teacher pinned up against the blackboard. But there were the children, safe under their wooden desks..."
Lewis Black

 

I worked with an old fella that was in on that walk to ground zero. He was a cook and he said he had all the lunches made when he found out he had to go with them. He was the first black guy in our union local. One of the best electricians I've worked with.

 

Thank you. So I take it he did not die shortly after the exposure.
Can you share how old he got to be when you knew him?

 

would 'back then' be when citizens followed government advice in the face of disaster, instead of whining about unconstitutional infringements of rights when the city closes roads in anticipation of huge storms?

 

You really need to find another website to troll.

 

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The adults are talking now -- :

 

LOL, he made my ignore list a long time ago. He might be the only one on it. I would have to check.

 

To bad there isn't a way to turn off the sound of a lunatic entering a room screaming about his favorite pudding every time he slams the door behind him ?

Now back on topic -- on my way home from school - I found places to hide from the fallout --

 

The school locker room at my high school was in the basement and I remember the fallout shelter sign in a long hallway leading to it. Don't recall if there was a separate room for that or not. We never got nuked, so didn't get to try it out.

 

I remember years ago -- one of my kids saying that his wrestling coach had an old store room converted to a mat room --- from his description of the location --- so much for any sheltering ?

 

Feeding --- Feeding

 

The fallout shelters in the movies we saw at school always made me a bit jealous, and I never could convince dad that we needed one. I wanted a nuclear bunker so bad....

 

My father wanted to do one --- but 1 mile north of the bay -- the water table was still to high --

 

Remember this tid-bit of wisdom ?

Responding to your posts always results in going around and around on a wheel of nonsense.

 

Justme, me too -- that single entry on the "ignore list", that is.

Rice: what I was remembering in my old town... is that there was a marked set of steps, outside the courthouse that led to a shelter. And it seemed like a really GOOD shelter, being made of sizable limestone, quarried blocks. The door had a window, but there weren't many other basement level windows on the outside of that building. It was cool building; I'd been to the uppermost floors - that's where the law library was.

Several of the churches in that town, had adaptable basements for this purpose too.

 

I remember someone once saying -- fallout shelters are good -- this way all the body's will be clumped together -- easier for disposal --

 

I knew one guy who was an officer in the navy. he was aboard one of the monitoring ships when they were testing in the pacific. when I first met him, I thought he was in his late 60's early 70's. he was 54. and yes, he had cancer and knew it. the 'bikini atoll' was in the news back in those early years all too often.
and you can tell by my age, I was one of those kids practicing the old 'duck and cover' drills in grade school. when I hit 19 I found myself a member of a civil defense heavy rescue unit. we were the only go-to guys in a rather large city with the training to tunnel under collapsed buildings to search for casualties.
I had hoped those days were over, but looking at too many of the news stories now, I'm not sure if kids will ever be truly safe from harm.