"While you swelter/Down there in your shelter"

Mock-up of a late 50s-early 60s vintage fallout shelter, with the All American family (at least he's not wearing a tie!) Atomic Testing Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. The title is a line from one of Tom Lehrer's satirical songs.

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slgwv ^club

Thanks!

11 years ago.

William Sutherland ^club

Great catch! Still have those fall-out signs in my apartment building!

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10 years ago.

slgwv ^club has replied to William Sutherland ^club

Thanks! Do they still include the caches of supplies? (Freeze-dried food and so on?)

10 years ago.

slgwv ^club

The museum is very well done. We took my dad there for his birthday several years ago--he'd worked at the Test Site back in the day, and met some of his old co-workers now working at the museum as docents. He'd also held a high security clearance, and was a bit nonplussed at all the stuff that's been declassified and is now out on public display.

So, if you're ever in Vegas and want Something Completely Different-- ;)

7 years ago.

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