I lived in Connecticut during this time. My best friend's father and uncle built a shelter in their backyard. I helped them dig a tunnel under the house to the shelter and do other things two 15 year olds could be tasked to do. My family moved before it was finished but they sent me pictures of the final shelter which proved to be a dark depressing looking place. No doubt very damp as well. I'm sure glad it wasn't needed.
@@clonedsim1196 I don't know if it's still there. I've lost touch with all the people. I know the location but I can't put it out here. I looked at Google Maps and I don't see any irregularities in the back yard lawn, so it may have been removed.
Thank you for making this video! In July 2020, in the early stages of the pandemic, I purchased a home in Alabama that had a fallout shelter built in 1960. It had been ignored since the mid 90's. (By a neighbor's account possibly longer) the wooden staircase was spongy due to about 4 inches of standing water. It was infested with spiders, cave crickets, roaches and had a lot of black mold. It had a spring loaded escape hatch in addition to the main trap door. It has now been fully restored and improved with 2 sump pumps, cell phone reception external antenna, food, water etc...It makes a great storm shelter.
I came here from the live, this is just so interesting to me! I remember which municipal buildings were fallout shelters, when I was a kid. I had forgotten how prevalent the great of nuclear war was back in the 60’s. Thanks for sharing!!
I have a friend who bought a former post office built in the 1950s, It had a fallout shelter that was designed to hold 125 people. It is now a pool and rec room in a restraunt.
My uncle used to have a lightbulb that he and my dad told me that my grandpa had bought that bulb in the 60s it was used and over 20 years old at that time. Last I knew it still worked
It almost happened during the Cuban missile crisis back when JFK was president in the 60's. Russia was putting missiles in Cuba. It was about to hit the fan. Look at the movie "Thirteen Days'.
@@Hooderaw My family was so scared of nuclear war that my Dad and neighbor worked together and built an underground fallout shelter that would hold both of our 2 families for about 2 weeks. To this day, 50 years later, I still feel a bit anxious when I hear the monthly tornado siren tests in my area.
I think the ground and antenna wires are simply just for a radio to listen for government broadcasts. Older radios often had earth wires as well as antenna
My grandfather was hired to dismantle nuclear bomb silos and had many stories of the people who worked with him and the sites (hidden in the Ozarks of Arkansas) I believe they are still there!
Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Fallout/blast/bomb shelters are or were rare here in England, only for the rich. I can still remember back to 1979 when an old house was abandoned around the corner from me. It had a cellar and me and my mates (all young teens) came up with a scheme to bomb proof the cellar! Funny enough, the house was demolished a few months later..!
Still a desirable feature in a home. I knew a guy that became a doctor that bought a home with a really well built one. It had a huge steel door on it. He owned full auto and all kinds of nice things. Great gun safe.
Dude! That is awesome! I have one, of not two, dosimeter sets like that. That's meant to advise the shelter occupants of radiation amounts endured, as radiation exposure is a cumulative thing. The fallout jacket was meant to keep alpha and beta particles off of you. The problem lies therein that those are most dangerous when inhaled or ingested. The jacket would be little more than one of those emergency ponchos. Perma-Pak was around in the late 90's as people geared up for Y2K. I don't know if they're still in business or not, now. Those "Fifty Shades of Grey" chains on the entrance were most likely meant to hold the blast hatch on, after the blast overpressure passed and created the reverse (sucking) effect. Thanks for sharing! I love this stuff!
not 100% true. Both "pens" were dosimeters, but only one was meant to be a dosimeter (the blue one, which have a scary 600R full scale!); the other dosimeter (the brown one) was meant to be a very crude ratemeter instead. The principle is quite simple, the brown dosimeter was calibrated for 2R full scale but it contained two different scales instead (one 0-to-120R/h scale that was meant to be read after one minute of exposure and one 0-to-12R/h scale that was meant to be read after 10 minutes of exposure). Theoretical, you can also use this instrument to read smaller radiation levels by increasing the exposure time (the full scale value will be 1.2R/h with 100 minutes of exposure time, 120mR/h with 1000 minutes of exposure time, 12mR/ with 10000 minutes) but of course the device may become less useful because of the very long measuring time required. BTW, the massive radiation levels caused by a detonation will decrease pretty quickly over the time and only the very first 48 hours are crucial for survival purposes (after 48 hours the radiation intensity will be one hundredth of the initial value-still very high but you can still leave the bunker for several hours to search for food and beverages of for escape from the blast area- and after 14 days the radiation will drops to 1/1000 - definitely enough to escape or to start the decontamination)
Loved it, cozy. This design was tested and cost 2,400 at the time. A more expensive and better design, cost 5k but included L turns and decontamination showers with airlock doors. Back when government needed us, we had civil defense and active programs to help civilians. Regular workers used simple building materials to build temporary fallout shelters $400 - 800. blast shelters were for the rich and elite government employees.
I live a few miles from a primary target, a military base. So, if someone pushes the button for a few milliseconds I will see a bright flash and then turn into a cloud of radioactive molecules. Too old to be worried anymore.
I know my comment is a little late to the show, but as for filtration, shelters like this usually had a fiberglass filter pad that was inside the top of the air pipe outside of the shelter.
I've always wanted a house with a bunker but I want a bunker under a bunker. If I won the lottery I would probably just build my entire home underground lol
This is is too cool but a little creepy. Can you imagine buying this home second hand and finding this shelter after the fact? It makes sense though it is ABQ. Sandia is well known for its nuclear...research.
@Funny Stuff... Obviously you have a talent you might not have been aware of. All the comments here seem to be on the same page. It’s your on screen charisma. Never know, you could be the next big thing on RU-vid. “This Ole Bomb Shelter”. LOL
Nice condition excellent selling point on house plus adds value and security to home heck could use it as a panic room in which case I'd have added a third exit tunnel if poss well away from house in case of homd invasion fire etc
It's Soo funny how accurate fallout the game was in capturing the campyness of 1950/60s American atomic age media. It reminds me of my grandpa for some reason
I wonder if they had a clock in there originally, I would imagine it would be good to have some indication of time when you are waiting for the radiation levels to drop - on the other hand, wrist watches were very common.
All doctors have them falk out shelters...Only drug addict women and teens that were said to transfered or escaped AFTER BEING WARDS OF THE STATE KNEW ABOUT THE DOCTORS FALL OUT SHELTER...they all look like those forgotten parts of the subway, WHERE TEENAGERS AND DRUGGIES FIND FOUND A PLACE TO GRT HIGH AND PROSTITUTE THEM SELVES...there was alot of college Fraternities into the Occult back then AND NOW
I mean.....can you imagine spending any kind of time down there? Maybe you're going to hack it for a couple days but after awhile you're going to lose your mind. No cell phone, no power, no running water, no toilet, probably only battery operated flashlight and some books to pass the time. Possibly no oxygen due to lack of ventilation and no power to the pump. Eventually you emerge to an fried earth above that radioactive. I think maybe this helped the guy living there sleep at night but really you're probably just delaying the inevitable.
Oh, you’re totally right! And then imagine being down there with three or four other people even! And that place is like a tomb, completely silent when you’re in there with the doors closed.
@@clonedsim1196 I don't know about you, but I'd love it. I'd fill that place with music & light paint a lovely nature scene around me so I can imagine. I'd add a fish tank that doubles as a grow station. (beta fish) Cooking would pose the biggest problem. Probably need a lifetime collection of candles. (with a carbon dioxide alarm) All those old movies, lifetime supply of chocolate & lollies. Plants to make it homey. A double bed & fluffy blankets. A spray bottle to spray myself clean & a shammy. I'd positively thrive as I hate noise. Yes I'd poke my head out every two weeks but I'd be very happy generally with the solitude. (I'd have to section a part off for a growing station as ultraviolet grow light isn't healthy.) Multivitamins & vitamin D. Hmmm.... sounds good. EVENTUALLY though I'd yearn for company or contact of some kind so add a CB radio. My manual foot pedal generator would offer me exercise & power up my deep cycle battery. She'll be right mate ...
When your in a survival situation you no longer have Cell phone signal , power , you will have running water however and battery light, He mentioned that there is a water tank. So to be honest i would rather not have power and cell phone signal if it meant my life and others who come with me are spared.
I live in Albuquerque. One of the largest nuclear warhead depots in the world is 7 miles away. The military airport and the city itself would be also targeted directly in a nuclear conflict. Shelter? you're dreaming. The whole area will be glassed.
