Remember these from the CD?

olifant · Post by **olifant** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:03 pm

Anyone else remember all the Civil Defense publications they put out during the cold war? When I was a kid I had quite a few of these. I was sure that the balloon was going to go up and wanted to be prepared.

I looked these up for a friend and thought everyone here might enjoy them.

http://www.civildefensemuseum.com/docs.html

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:19 am

Growing up in that era, I remember vividly the school air raid drills and being very proud of the fall out shelter in the basement of my apartment house.

It also bothered me that the air raid shelter was always locked. What if? and the shelter was locked?

Last year a shelter was opened that was in one of the base of the Brooklyn Bridge. They tasted some of the 500,000 biscuits and found them edibile. Nobody tried the water cans, though, just too old and too damp.

I remember the instructions:

"IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE IN A NUCULER ATTACK, TURN YOUR BACK TO THE BLAST, BEND OVER, CAREFULLY PUT YOUR HEAD BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND KISS YOUR BUTT GOODBYE."

Words to live by.

TTT