Love old ads like these
I found these great old fallout shelter photographs, drawings, and brochures. The fallout shelters were popularized during the Cold War era. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy and the Federal Government started the Community Fallout Shelter Program. Below are some images from the LIFE archive and Flickr. The images from the "Fallout Shelter Handbook" were…
Sacramento Bee, November 6, 1960, page D10
A 1968 Tatra 603 at Expo ‘58 in Brussels.
The US Department of Agriculture published this handy pamplett circa 1962. The USDA's main recommendation? Get yourself a two-story, basement-type barn with a hay-filled loft, to reduce radiation exposure as much as 80 percent.Thanks to the interwebs you can download your own copy here.
You are Young, Broke, and Beautiful.
Albert Edwards On Terminal Competitive Devaluation, The Nuclear Option
I finally got around to scanning some more of that incredibly popular Fallout Shelter Handbook from 1962 I posted about several weeks ago. ...
Fusion Flea | The Wand Company
A vintage look of the future
Many toys reflect the times in which they were popular and in the 1950s, atomic toys were just that. The ushering in of the computer age saw the creation
One of the earliest advertisements for the Thunderbolt, perhaps the most iconic and widespread model of air raid siren in history. Produced by Federal Enterprises, Inc. (later Federal Sign & Signal, now Federal Signal) of University Park, Illinois, thousands of units were ins
UPDATE : I've scanned more images -- check them out HERE . I found this musty handbook from 1962 in a pile of similarly musty magazin...
What appears to be an ordinary, two-story house in Las Vegas, Nevada, conceals a luxurious 15,200-square-foot underground bunker built in 1978.
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Total repaint of 4.5" diecast & plastic food truck to create a Fallout Slocum's Joe Food Truck and repainted a Nanoforce figure to make a server..
