Sinner wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:pan.2008.03.09.06.36.53.691170@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Heh. Hi, Sinner. But as far as the old '50s Atomic Cafe precautions,
>> they did no harm and they at least gave us a sense of having
*something*
>> to do if It happened.
>
> I remember the bomb shelter building craze that swept through the
country.
> We didn't have one, but then the school was just a few blocks away. The
> Civil Defense sirens would have given us more than enough warning to get
> there. I think the CD food and water rations are still there. :o)
Remember the siren tests on something like the first Saturday of the month
at 1PM or something like that?
I was raised in a small midwestern town, back then. I spent some time
there in 2001, and when we had a tornado come through from the sound of it
they were still using those old sirens -- if not, what I heard was a
darned good simulation of it. And I have to say the associations with
that sound from the duck-n-cover here-come-the-bombers fifties gave
the sound a bit of a spooky edge, even half a century later.
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