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Fallout Shelters from the 1950s

TRIGGERSGHOSTTRIGGERSGHOST Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
I have heard alot of talk,and seen old news footage on people building fallout shelters in the 1950s.I have been around for quite awhile,but have yet to have ever seen one? Anybody ever seen a backyard fallout shelter.Sounds like a nice place to hide things,and a place to get away from the family once in awhile. Dead Horse Walking
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  • metzmetz Member Posts: 121 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not only seen 'em but have built 3 to date. Basic efficiency apartment with self contained utility producers underground. One was reinforced, won't get him out till he runs out of mre's or propane (unless you are REALLY WANTING him). Should be able to get through a F5 tornado. Or I suppose any other threat less than that with about 3minutes warning.Andy
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  • .250Savage.250Savage Member Posts: 812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I first moved to San Diego, my first landlord had one, with entrance built into the hillside & stone-looking (concrete) door. It went down about one level into the ground, but it wasn't a real one, as it didn't have filtered air, water treatment/storage tanks, and all that other good survival stuff. He ended up using it for a shooting range, since the back wall was dirt, and so I got someplace to shoot, right in my backyard in the city, that didn't cost me anything. Things like this are how I know that there is a God. P.S., he let me use his bullet casting setup to make wadcutters for my .38 reloads. Talk about cheap target practice.
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Seen one? Heck, I have one. Parents built it in when the house went up circa 1957. Once the facts of nuclear holocaust became clear in the 60s, we all agreed the money would have been better spent on lottery tickets. Cool, dry place to store stuff.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My son bought a house that had one built into the basement. Walls are very thick reinforced concrete and he installed a vault door and turned it into a gun safe. I'm going to take some of my guns over there and store them. He also installed dehumidifers in it. Rosie
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  • Andrew AdamsAndrew Adams Member Posts: 227 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Grandpa built one in 1959, Reinforced concrete on all sides, including roof. Door is steel with a thin outer wall, a thick inner wall, and cylinders that can be filled with powder to "prevent" a torch assault on the door. It is a hidden room in his basement, that can neither be detected while in the basement, or from the outer dimensions of the house. About fifteen years ago, he decided the big one wasn't coming so half of it now houses Grandma's delicious canned goods and half of it houses Grandpa's several hundred firearms. The long and short of it is you can be happier than humans should be allowed to be for days and never leave the room.
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