Bomb Shelter Opened After 50 Years

[icyfroth]

WHEN Craig Denham purchased his Texas home, the previous owners shared some intriguing information: "There's a basement in the back, a shelter".

Curious, he headed down the steep stairs set in limestone at the back of his new home. Venturing into the darkness, he discovered an astounding time capsule which had been sealed from the outside world for 50 years - aside from one quick opening by the previous owners.

With a single light bulb, a shabby looking toilet behind a shower curtain, an escape map pinned to the wall and a periscope "perfect for the zombie apocalypse", the fallout shelter is from the height of the Atomic Age

In the midst of the Cold War, fallout shelters were built to protect occupants from radioactive debris after a nuclear explosion.

This enclosure was built originally by a retired air force colonel, E.V. Robnett Jr., who was also an inventor and died in 1984.

Mr Denham believed the colonel had access to information the public didn't.

The fact he built a shelter in his backyard shows "there must have been real concern with people's safety" during the time, Mr Denham said.

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[*ibis]

im always amazed at people who think others were/are brainwased and wouldnt consider for a  second they are the ones brainwashed.

 brainwashed to think others are brainwashed

[purple.cow]

I have a ruddy great shelter right under my house (About 6' below ground level) that would made a fantasic survival/doomsday jobbie.

It was built there by the original owners of the place when they built the house itself, but I have no idea what they wanted it there for because it's huge, takes up 3/4's of the area of the land the house covers, and that ain't small I can tell ya lol.

There's still stuff down there that I think the original owners put there that I just never bothered looking through.

[**meep**]

Super Nova, reading your posts, i'm having flashbacks of the communist propaganda i was subjected to while living behind the iron curtain.  Stalin was a tyrant responsible for killing millions of his own people. 

[purple.cow]

Like so many other born and bred Aussies, SN seems to have led a very sheltered life Meep.

[***super_nova***]

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@**meep** wrote:

Super Nova, reading your posts, i'm having flashbacks of the communist propaganda i was subjected to while living behind the iron curtain.  Stalin was a tyrant responsible for killing millions of his own people. 

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Of-course he was, I am not saying that he was not, i am just reflecting on the fact that he was not in position to be threat to USA, whether he wanted to be or did not  is impossible to know. 

Just wondering, did you or your parents believe the propaganda?  I am not saying that there were not people who supported the system, obviously there were, but some were being simply pragmatic.  I once in 1960s met some people quite high up in the Communist party in Prague; at their diner parties they used to use portrait of Stalin as a dart board, which if reported, could have landed them in prison, and end of any chance for their kids to get education.  They were perfectly aware of what is going on, but played the game to get the life they wanted.

The difference here is that people do not doubt or question the version of history they are being taught.  Although they are now more likely not to trust what they are told, it is still possible to start war/get involved in one without any good reason =  Iraq

[*elizabeths-mum*]

How cool would that be!
Moorna, I can't believe you haven't had a good poke though your storeroom/whatever!

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I love this dolls house, but the comments below about drills and other memories tell how seriously it was all taken by the people.

http://retrorenovation.com/2013/01/16/rare-1962-marx-metal-dollhouse-with-a-bomb-shelter/