Family Fallout Shelters
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2016
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In this video, we discuss measures family took during the 1950s and '60s to build fallout shelters to protect themselves in the event of a nuclear attack.
Well Robert, as one who lived through the Cold War and being raised in a suburb of Los Angeles, I saw all types of shelters being sold on empty lots and in spare areas of gas stations. In those days, there were gas stations of every brand on every corner and in some places, all four corners were gas stations. I remember the "DROP" drills which were constantly practiced in school.... Even before the Cuban Missile Crisis. If you don't believe people were scared, think again. I remember people rushing to our local stores and stocking up on groceries and canned goods. Remember too, $25.00 a week could feed a family of four fairly well. During that time in October, I remember going to the store with my mom and never saw it so packed. I remember we bought just our normal things with just a few extra cans of vegetables. Our total, $30.00. The lady in front of us had five shopping carts full of food. She bought things by the case and all kinds of meat. Her bill was $391.00. Why I remember that, is that I have never seen a grocery bill that high. She was given enough S&H Green Stamps to choke a horse. When I asked my mom why we didn't get extra food, she said there was no place to survive. She also said we could seal up the house the best we can and that is it. We lived in a new tract home without a basement. We didn't have time to build a shelter or buy one and have a huge hole dug in our backyard in time. It was a scary time and after the Soviet Union dropped that 50 Megaton bomb, known as Tsar Bomba, people thought that one bomb could wipe out the City of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. No place to run and no place to hide. The Hydrogen Bomb was getting too powerful to survive unless you were a millionaire and could dig at least a hundred feet down with all sorts of elaborate equipment and months of supplies. Yep, I remember it well and I remember that just as well as I remember John Kennedy's assassination.
As a child, I imagine that it would have been really terrifying. As an adult with scared children, I'm not sure how I would have reacted. It's all very fascinating to learn about today. Thanks for sharing your experiences!
I was just telling my kids about the duck and cover drills we used to do in the early 60's while attending the Detroit Public Schools. Or the entire school taking practice trips to the fallout shelter, which was in service tunnels under the school. When I was older and working in the building trades I recall working in an old high school in downtown Detroit and exploring some old tunnels under the school. We found hundreds of the olive drab water cans lining the walls along with the shiny cans of Civil Defense survival biscuits that were never removed.
Wow. I can't imagine how scary it was for everyone to realize there wasn't any way to escape the Tsar Bomba or the Hydrogen Bomb without being super rich.
Hey, that "old guy" is Walt!
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You know that fallout shelter reminds me of the Funhouse where they had that Barrel that rolled and rolled as you tried to walk through it. It would be a lot of fun watch the kids rolling around
I was taught during a long-term survival situation that’s your worst enemy is your next-door neighbor that’s not prepared. If you put enough stuff in your basement for you and your family you can be sure that your next-door neighbors put nothing in their basements for their family.
I still have my shelter in my basement it’s still stocked up to this day and always will be.
I read a book in highschool called " Alas Babylon" by Pat Frank I believe.
First minute of the video is a clip of the "Your Civil Defense". Love the variety of clips used in the video. both clips come from great videos, and I like learning about what life was like during the Cold War.
2:44 is a clip of the video "Walt Builds A Family Fallout Shelter"
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Good perspective , for a young guy !
I understand people built these at night, but wouldn’t the neighbors hear a bunch of noise going on? Dumb question
People might need thise shelters again soon.
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I agree . The fallout shelter was an industry designed to feed off cold war era fears . Nobody really needed one . They got taken for a lot of money .
In retrospect, they were not necessary. However, there was a time when the threat was very real and mistakes by those with their hands on the button were far more likely than they might be today. The push to build both private and public fallout shelters was a natural policy of the US federal government up until the mid-1970s. Throughout the 1980s, the instability of Soviet political leadership (between 1982 and 1985 they went through Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and then Gorbochev)and the revived interest in nuclear war in popular culture put another cohort or two into a state of anxiety.
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