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jfz9580m

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14. A hand cranked ventilation system?
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:49 PM
21 hrs ago

Thanks..these are my favorite posts. LuckyCharms posted one a while back about his dad extracting gold during salvage work.

It sounds a bit like the bomb shelters described in Richmal Crompton’s William series which was one of my favorites as a child. I didn’t really think about it that way at the time, but lighthearted children’s books as they are, WW2 is constantly playing in the background.

I thought of the Cuban Missile Crises yesterday. Duer leftstreet really chilled my blood by pointing out that these Armageddon types may just nuke something.

Don’t they get it? They seem to have no survival instincts. The classic GOP politician or industrialist is kinda sleazy and greedy etc.
But they aren’t suicidal..or at least not on such a short timescale. What’s with these guys?

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What was the address? GusBob 23 hrs ago #1
No idea who owns it now. MineralMan 23 hrs ago #2
I have made my prediction too GusBob 23 hrs ago #4
When I was in Junior High, my duty was to go to the fallout shelter and inventory the supplies. Midnight Writer 23 hrs ago #3
When I was in grade school, there were ... ananda 23 hrs ago #5
I remember those drills, too. MineralMan 23 hrs ago #8
We were also glued to the TV during the Cuban Missile Crisis ananda 21 hrs ago #13
As 5th and 6th graders, we girls were often more worried about... 3catwoman3 19 hrs ago #30
Our town had a fallout shelter on the front lawn Jersey Devil 23 hrs ago #6
Fallout shelters for the most part are useless. Johnny2X2X 23 hrs ago #7
Yes, of course they are. MineralMan 22 hrs ago #9
Yeah, and what about power for air filtration Johnny2X2X 22 hrs ago #10
Ours had a hand-cranked ventilation system. MineralMan 22 hrs ago #11
I am 61 get the red out 21 hrs ago #12
A hand cranked ventilation system? jfz9580m 21 hrs ago #14
Yup. It used the hand-cranked blower MineralMan 21 hrs ago #15
During the Cuban missile crisis my parents discussed converting our cellar to a shelter during conversation at the Martin68 21 hrs ago #16
We had a neighbor who built one about that time. Everything old is new again. Vinca 21 hrs ago #17
When I was a little girl, I begged my father to build a "fallout" shelter. Sogo 21 hrs ago #18
For My Father, It Was a Way for Him to Feel Like He Was Doing Something. MineralMan 20 hrs ago #20
We moved into a house that had a basement fallout shelter area. hay rick 20 hrs ago #19
Yes. Such structures were more a security blanket than real protection. MineralMan 20 hrs ago #21
Not Just One Threat 2na fisherman 20 hrs ago #22
Indeed. We Live in Precarious Times. MineralMan 20 hrs ago #23
Me Too 2na fisherman 19 hrs ago #28
For a bit of levity, here's the obligatory Donald Fagen song... keep_left 20 hrs ago #24
That's Brilliant! First Time I've Seen It. MineralMan 20 hrs ago #26
Despite the "old" Steely Dan style... keep_left 19 hrs ago #31
I had one in the neighborhood. kairos12 20 hrs ago #25
My uncle built one in the 60s in Delaware Walleye 20 hrs ago #27
We had one too. I was 5 when my parents got the new Laurelin 19 hrs ago #29
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