fallout shelter

 I saw this cover on Facebook:

intriguing but not online

and was intrigued.  I remember the government pamphlets on fallout shelters:

https://archive.org/details/familyfalloutshe00unitrich/mode/2up

I was a kid during this time.  And it always worried me a little: we never had a house with a basement !  That seemed to be a prerequisite for a bomb shelter (although I wasn't aware of the dig your own in the backyard type of shelter).  The other thing was that you had to stock the shelter with a bunch of stuff (like food, water and so on) but also a battery powered radio with a telescoping antenna !  All the portable radios we had were AM only with loopstick antennas !  In fact the only portable AM battery powered radio with a telescoping antenna I ever saw was the one from Gilligan's Island:

source: https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/The_Radio

But apparently the antenna (and handle) on top were added on by the prop person on the show, so nobody had such a radio !

source: https://offerup.com/item/detail/442726758

BTW, I went to first grade (1961-62) across the street from a Nike-Hercules missile battery (reportedly with atomic warheads to bring down Soviet planes).  But I was blissfully unaware, don't remember duck and cover drills, they must have given up on that kind of stuff or I just don't remember it.

But man if we had had a basement at home => I could just imagine the fallout shelter section doubling as an electronics workshop, I could have developed into an E-genius instead of what I've become :)

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm