tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post116399389450026048..comments2024-03-12T10:31:11.815-07:00Comments on The Ward-O-Matic: Fallout Shelter Handbook 1962Ward Jenkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05013085293679968596noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-44606816768585553572015-06-19T04:56:35.300-07:002015-06-19T04:56:35.300-07:00I remember having nightmares as a kid during the C...I remember having nightmares as a kid during the Cuban missle crisis. My dad comforted me by explaining the idea of mutually assured destruction.<br />Today, as an adult living 15 blocks from the White House, my plans for a nuclear event amount to keeping a bottle of Veuve Cliquot chilled for toasting the trails of the incoming missles, although it's kind of a shame I won't have time to finish the bottle.Arthur John vos Savanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09766274918531398866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-48393308110577837022012-05-02T16:18:33.797-07:002012-05-02T16:18:33.797-07:00Are there any shelters that can be built to protec...Are there any shelters that can be built to protect against hypobaric and thermobaric bomb's?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-2389785950503702822009-12-09T11:23:22.525-08:002009-12-09T11:23:22.525-08:00Here is an updated version of the fist home shelte...Here is an updated version of the fist home shelter...<br />http://zekfrivolous.com/shelter/Pleasant%20Hills%20combined.pdfUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206389810249584903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-75857846332934597892009-12-04T11:26:44.743-08:002009-12-04T11:26:44.743-08:00Hey, I emailed Ward about the nations first bomb s...Hey, I emailed Ward about the nations first bomb shelter or fallout shelter. Turns out the owner was an aniimator, illustrator, etc.<br />Place, Pleasant Hills, Pa.<br />A page of the flyer....<br />http://www.pitt.edu/~szekeres/bomb-shelter.jpgUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12206389810249584903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-71009174968093344872009-09-08T12:32:08.741-07:002009-09-08T12:32:08.741-07:00I find it humorous that 'Taint Right' seem...I find it humorous that 'Taint Right' seems to believe he could survive a nuclear exchange. Ha! Pop your head out of your shelter two weeks after an 'exchange' of ICBMs and there won't be much out there any more. No trucks to bring you your Oscar Meyer lunchmeat, no trucks to bring you your cans of Hormel chili... <br /><br />The ridiculous belief that via some 'Mad Max' type outcome, we'd continue as a life-as-we-can-imagine it - is beyond stupid. <br /><br />We'd all die within 3 months. <br /><br />After pounding the dirt in our backyards with a claw hammer wishing we could find a few more worms - we'd be done.<br /><br />War is not healthy for the continuation of our species.<br /><br />Oh. By the way, over 1 billion people use a bag-in-can as a toilet everyday - when it gets full, they take that bag to the edge of town (slum) and toss it. The paradigm of the 'flying toilet' <br /><br />Yet those of us who are accidentally saved from such a life, try not to think about that and slide between our comfy sheets, safe in the knowledge that if 'they' come for us, we have shotguns, pistols and semi-automatics to protect us. <br /><br />If the button is pushed, you may wish to join the 'Grateful Dead' (that's where that comes from...)JonDowdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14014018671288780074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-29797292467648162352009-06-28T06:43:22.768-07:002009-06-28T06:43:22.768-07:00Those interested in the history of the fallout she...Those interested in the history of the fallout shelter, the cold-war mentality and the ethical debates that fallout shelters provoked, and the expressions of this debate in newspapers, magazines and television (including the famous Twilight Zone episode "The Shelter") should check out the book, "One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture" by Kenneth D. Rose. It's very readable and entertaining.g-manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12742858900574947668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-53817270318199482292009-05-12T11:19:00.000-07:002009-05-12T11:19:00.000-07:00Cool manual. I recall seeing something like it wh...Cool manual. I recall seeing something like it when I was a kid. My daddy prepared for the A-Bombing of Atlanta during the Cuban deal. Bricks in the basement windows, stocks of canned food, flashlights, blankets, a monopoly set and etc. <br /><br />I find it humorous that so many today believe a nuclear exchange equates to doomsday. Of course the science strongly suggests otherwise.<br /><br />So laugh not. Duck and cover plus the information in this kind of manual could save you just as it was designed to do 45 years ago. <br /><br />I remind you your alternative is to rely on FEMA. If that's your strategy, then oh well.Taint Righthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02894138867166964202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-57778090732488977482008-03-25T14:23:00.000-07:002008-03-25T14:23:00.000-07:00Harry,That was from a cartoon - Futurama.When Leel...Harry,<BR/><BR/>That was from a cartoon - Futurama.<BR/><BR/>When Leela thinks she has met another of her own kind (human looking, but only one eye).<BR/><BR/>The episode mocked "Married with Children."<BR/><BR/>The guy's story was that he was cleaning a pool when he saw the planet being destroyed. He jumped in and when he came back out he was the only person left. The story was a lie, he was an impostor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-35949067562802758762008-02-07T10:56:00.000-08:002008-02-07T10:56:00.000-08:00I'm interested in using the first bomb shelter ima...I'm interested in using the first bomb shelter image in a book of U.S. women's history (entitled Women Making America) that I am publishing this year. Is there a chance that I can get a higher res image from you? I would really love it. <BR/>Thanks!<BR/>Julie<BR/>polka . dot @ verizon . netAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-62751861739874578332007-12-01T14:38:00.000-08:002007-12-01T14:38:00.000-08:00Very Cool my parents never game fallout shelters m...Very Cool my parents never game fallout shelters much thought really makes you thin k how close we were and are to an attack.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04880106819332436097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-88586295838413362512007-09-24T18:10:00.000-07:002007-09-24T18:10:00.000-07:00Great site . I was born on a SAC base in 1959 and ...Great site . I was born on a SAC base in 1959 and lived on one till I was 17. I then discovered drugs............Brings back a lot of child hood memories....:PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-27510651038806091182007-07-14T21:24:00.000-07:002007-07-14T21:24:00.000-07:00I have to laugh at the people who think shelters a...I have to laugh at the people who think shelters are useless or somehow not politically correct. It's like the story about the ant and the grasshopper. Great work, keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-9485427562017777762007-05-31T10:05:00.000-07:002007-05-31T10:05:00.000-07:00My parents had this very same book when I was a ki...My parents had this very same book when I was a kid - I read it when I was like 7 or something - wished I had itAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-2755188325494252872007-05-23T11:19:00.000-07:002007-05-23T11:19:00.000-07:00Better to have it and not need it than need it and...Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.<BR/><BR/>Most people of today's generation are CLUELESS regarding fallout, radioactive decay, preperation and survivability of a nuclear attack. <BR/><BR/>Dont' beleive the BS. Most people will survive the initial blast just fine, then panic and get very ill or die due to ignorance and no preperation or shelter... <BR/><BR/>Check out the facts, and prepare while you can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-36640298171693946602007-04-12T21:46:00.000-07:002007-04-12T21:46:00.000-07:00I am amazed! I did a senior these for my bachelor...I am amazed! I did a senior these for my bachelor's on the Atomic Age, & would have given anything to have had a copy of this booklet. I have several others from 1961, but they are not as nice as this one. One of the best ones is "You CAN Survive Atomic Attack" by W. Libby (invented the term "fallout" & discovered the atomic clock). <BR/><BR/>VAAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-90699567411212010912007-03-01T16:20:00.000-08:002007-03-01T16:20:00.000-08:00We are studying the Cold War in social studies and...We are studying the Cold War in social studies and this kind of helps me out. I mean i have to do a project on this and everything that i have learned about the atomic bomc threats and everything it would be really scary!lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-464429679385090062007-02-20T07:45:00.000-08:002007-02-20T07:45:00.000-08:00Fallout shelters are still built in Switzerland in...Fallout shelters are still built in Switzerland in all residential houses and most underground carparks are fallout shelters.<BR/><BR/>Its the law, they MUST do it.Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11228523364333883680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-85873248470901023262007-02-12T22:09:00.000-08:002007-02-12T22:09:00.000-08:00I grew up in Atlanta in the 60's and my industreou...I grew up in Atlanta in the 60's and my industreous uncle built a bomb shelter in the parking lot of Cambellton Plaza shopping center, west of the city. I don't know that he ever sold one, but it was fun to visit. My grandmother stocked mason jars full of water "just in case". Ah, the innocence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1169880083034126032007-01-26T22:41:00.000-08:002007-01-26T22:41:00.000-08:00I had a friend who's Dad was quite paranoid and in...I had a friend who's Dad was quite paranoid and installed a secret bombshelter/underground food storage at night so no would know about it. Of course my friend told me and everyone else so it ended up being not-so-secret. That was like 10 years ago. I don't know if they had a Port-o-Biff though.Brenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02002946823197338034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1165511785688664932006-12-07T09:16:00.000-08:002006-12-07T09:16:00.000-08:00I can't believe how silly and uninformed people we...I can't believe how silly and uninformed people were back then... imagine... having to spend TWO WEEKS to a MONTH down there... everyone knows it's safe after 3-5 days... gosh they were animals back then...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1165077181587732822006-12-02T08:33:00.000-08:002006-12-02T08:33:00.000-08:00Heh..."Porto-biff". :DHeh..."Porto-biff". :DAllan Lordehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06401964397804979720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1164779132693835882006-11-28T21:45:00.000-08:002006-11-28T21:45:00.000-08:00It is good for hurricane too.It is good for hurricane too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1164524629630552402006-11-25T23:03:00.000-08:002006-11-25T23:03:00.000-08:00If I remember correctly...I've studied this stuff ...If I remember correctly...<BR/><BR/>I've studied this stuff on and off for several years as a hobby, and as I remember the swimming pool trick might actually work. Of course, the radiation levels would still have been astronomical when he surfaced.Irishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08778419285073471219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1164254100871189182006-11-22T19:55:00.000-08:002006-11-22T19:55:00.000-08:00What killed off the home bomb shelter was the dawn...What killed off the home bomb shelter was the dawning realization of just how long you'd have to stay inside one. It's not like "Jericho" on TV, where a good rainstorm washes it all away, and everything outdoors is normal again. If you were somewhere that you needed to be in a fallout shelter, you'd need to be in it for years. Not days, not weeks, but years.<BR/><BR/>The chance of agriculture surviving both the initial radiation and years of neglect in any meaningful way is pretty slim as well.<BR/><BR/>On a globe, everybody's downwind of everybody else. Nobody wins in nuclear war.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Oh, but the good news is that most camping stores still sell the Porto-Biff, if not by that name.Jonathan Hutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15346841657650368548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8984824.post-1164246950014819222006-11-22T17:55:00.000-08:002006-11-22T17:55:00.000-08:00Not to rain on most of you guys parade but while c...Not to rain on most of you guys parade but while civil defense is gone, the nukes are not. Hello?<BR/> A terrorist nuke is very possible in which case Duck and Cover could save your life. Watch it on Google video. Go to www.physiciansforcivildefense to learn more. I was trained in the US navy to launch nukes from submarines. I know whereoff I speak. Great handbook. A collectors item!Steve Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10143362162407799790noreply@blogger.com