tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post8261291416614073115..comments2024-03-28T12:29:39.157-07:00Comments on Graphic Firing Table: Gimme ShelterFDChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-58526058682568376492013-06-20T14:30:35.083-07:002013-06-20T14:30:35.083-07:00Closest I've ever come to the sort of things y...Closest I've ever come to the sort of things your describing is one of my USAR centers was built over an old Nike missile site north of Philadelphia, PA. The missiles were long gone but the old underground silo and magazine bunkers remained. Weird, and kinda creepy Cold War artifact... FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-22393270167122219282013-06-19T09:36:36.910-07:002013-06-19T09:36:36.910-07:00I happened to catch Jim Bakker's show late nig...I happened to catch Jim Bakker's show late night ( remember him & Tammy Faye? ).<br /><br />Just in time to catch a long stretch of this info-mercial.<br /><br />http://jimbakkershow.com/lovegifts/1-packet-of-emergency-survival-food.html<br /><br />bbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-7075878303684411192013-06-18T13:11:40.597-07:002013-06-18T13:11:40.597-07:00@ Ael: same thing, in British Columbia - the bunke...@ Ael: same thing, in British Columbia - the bunker to shelter the remnants of the provincial government was about 90 miles north of Victoria (which, because of the naval base nearby, was on a target list but probably pretty far down it). Set into a hillside with big blast doors.Briannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-64775751846159799422013-06-16T16:51:23.867-07:002013-06-16T16:51:23.867-07:00In CFB Shilo, the summer reserve artillery school ...In CFB Shilo, the summer reserve artillery school used to use the bunker designated for the Manitoba Premier and his buddies as a barracks. I assume that if the threat of thermonuclear war escalated, the gunners would have been thrown out on their ass. However, it never came to that.<br /><br />What was most amusing about living in the "hole" was that there was absolutely no clue as to the weather outside. No windows, filtered air kept at a constant temperature, and of course, normal radios don't work either. What that meant was that unless someone had already climbed up the two stories to ground level and poked their head outside and then came back in, a gunner didn't know what to wear for morning PT (rain gear if it was pissing rain, long sweats if it was bitter cold, or shorts if it was a normal day.<br /><br />You would often see a stash of clothes at the door to the hole as gunners would emerge with all possible combinations of kit, look at the sky, get in the appropriate clothing and dump the rest by the door for retrieval after the run.<br /> Aelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788190394672505925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-57891420186739219762013-06-15T21:14:04.718-07:002013-06-15T21:14:04.718-07:00I knew a couple of people who knew of people who h...I knew a couple of people who knew of people who had them. They were a real oddity, most of them, built for or by rich paranoids or nuclear cranks like it sounds like this guy in California that built this one was.<br /><br />Oddly enough, the only real "fallout shelter" reference in my own life was from reading Heinlein's loathsome <i>Farnham's Freehold</i> in college. Ewwww. I would have to remind myself of that book. Yick. Now I'll have to wash my brain out with soap.FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-19571858251173111052013-06-15T14:08:10.675-07:002013-06-15T14:08:10.675-07:00We didn't even have shelters up in the great w...We didn't even have shelters up in the great white north as relics of another time. The only one I'd ever heard of (and it was in the 90's) was the Diefenbunker.Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-82559782419766339482013-06-14T12:15:22.936-07:002013-06-14T12:15:22.936-07:00I am in an odd sort of demographic. My parents we...I am in an odd sort of demographic. My parents were kids of the Depression and the Big War - by the time the Bomb and the Reds came along they were old enough to be cynical and too old to be scared. I was just too little and kind of slow on the uptake to pop culture. So when all the old late Forties and Fifties "ohmigodwe'reallgonnadie!" stuff came around again in the Seventies and Eighties as snark it was new to me.<br /><br />So the shelter reaches me only as a sort of fiction; the kids in "Matinee" getting trapped inside one played for laughs, or the truly bizarre use of the shelter as fictional focus in Heinlein's <i>Farnham's Freehold</i> and the like. The reality of it is as abstract and distant as a display of Civil War artifacts...FDChiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10607785969510234092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31246093.post-39988857912047998842013-06-14T09:26:02.364-07:002013-06-14T09:26:02.364-07:00In a similar boat as you Chief, I was a child of t...In a similar boat as you Chief, I was a child of the late, late, sixties (well as late as you can still be in the sixties). We were past the time when a nuclear shelter made any sense (unless you could stock food for the next century) and the fear of Armageddon had receded. I knew it was a risk, but never worried about it or believed it would happen. Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715768191516712688noreply@blogger.com