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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
What a sweet and most charming Nuclear bomb shelter. The flowers all neat and proper around the top/with grass and easy access steps. I have a picture of a mother in that bomb shelter wearing her pearl necklace.
Notice the lady entering the shelter...yes, those were the days of fur wraps....many even had parts of the animal sewn into the display, such as the head and feet. My aunt had one in the 1950's, I thought it was interesting but strange.
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The bomb shelter era was also the era of the uranium prospecting craze. People would buy geiger counters and go out to the Mohave or Nevada or Utah desert and try to find uranium deposits and strike it rich. My dad bought a geiger and went out into the Mohave but just got a bad sunburn. The craze fizzled out quickly since so few found anything. Pop would have done better panning for gold, but uranium seemed more patriotic. The '50s were a strange time, but now is even stranger I guess.
In the distance in the bomb shelter pic there is a sign that says "Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous". Did it really? When I lived in Van Nuys as a boy there used to be a big Schlitz brewery just off Woodman near our house. Did Schlitz make Van Nuys famous? Doubt it.