Some old Photos for your enjoyment

Rick H

Rick H

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I'm 74. My grade school was also a bomb shelter. It was an old building from the late 30's. Brick, marble floors and a full deep basement that was a bomb/fallout shelter. We did a drill where we all got out of our seats and marched with one hand on the shoulder of the kid in front of us, the other touching the wall, and down the stairs to the basement shelter. In Junior High we did duck and cover. By the time I was in High School they must have given up on it.
My uncle bought a new house in the late 50's that had a bomb shelter built in. The builder included them as a selling feature in all the houses in the new subdivision. The room was in the basement under the brick and poured reinforced concrete front porch. My uncle never provisioned it, but used it for junk storage.
 
Winelover

Winelover

North Central Arkansas
Bomb shelters are the new politically correct safe rooms. We have one, living in Tornado Alley. confused-face-smiley-emoticon.gif Come to think of it, pretty much the whole ICF house is a safe room.................so it's a really safe room inside of a safe room.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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Sue was telling me there is study out there stating that there are newly defined degrees of "old." Your 60's are now "Young Old", your 70's are "Middle Old", you are not classified as truly "Old" until your 80s.
Darn it, I see the snout of Middle Old peeking around the corner of Sue and I.
 
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popper

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Guess I'm OLD then. No nuke drills, just tornado drills. duck under the flimsy wood desk.
My 550 person HS class is down 30%.
 
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JWinAZ

JWinAZ

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A few years ago in Tucson the owner of his recently purchased house discovered an underground shelter in the back yard. The entrance was covered with dirt and the shelter unknown to several owners of the house. He was a firefighter and understood the hazard of going into a confined space. Taking precautions he went in and saw that it was empty and in good shape. Don't know what he did with it.

One of my grandfathers built an underground shelter in the early '60s. The entrance was a trap door in a bedroom. It ended up being used for storage etc.
 
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blackthorn

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A few years ago I was telling my oldest son about seeing an old fellow crossing a parking lot. He was obviously about to collapse so, I ran over and held him up while his wife (muttering a few choice words) went and got his walker out of their car. All ended well. My son's reply?----Define old. Smart azzed kid ( he was 60 or so at the time) and I was 80 or close to it. You are only as old as you feel! I subscribe to the mantra of "don't let the old man in"!
 
Missionary

Missionary

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That is a way to get a 2 wheeler no one else will ever see again !
My daily rider is a 1971 R75 BMW. Nice old black motorcycle with a 5 gallon tank that still delivers 53-55 mph depending on the wind direction. Wont keep up with the 15 mph over the speed limit crowd but I still get there. Points, plugs and two cylinders out in the air.
 
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