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Yesterday the city was a-buzz with the story of the secret Brooklyn Bridge bunker, found stocked with supplies from the 1950s. Today one of our tipsters directed us to two beautiful Flickr sets detailing the contents of the room-- Shelter, by Binkybink, and A Glimpse Under the Bridge, by Positive Print. Lots of great pix of crackers, water drums, and medical supplies. Our favorite caption: "Tarps like paper, bandages and high calorie crackers. The instructions on these cartons advise people to consume 10,000 calories per day. " 10,000 calories a day! Jen looked it up-- you'd gain about 3lbs a day!
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Remember the skate board ramp, theater piece in the Brooklyn Anchorage? Sadly this space will no longer used for sake of art.
Curious as to why and what the extent of these 'inspections' are ultimately will lead too.
Keep your eyes peeled, especially when the Bush Admisinistration becomes a figmant of the nation's imagination and notions of 'fear' dwindle.
Apparently communist nuclear devices would make people really skinny!
I kind of take solace in the fact that in the event of a nuclear war, only the leaders of New York would probably be allowed in that shelter. So imagine the Mayor and Governer eating government crackers for ten years. That shit is funny!
I remember those cracker tins well. When I was a Boy Scout (on Long Island, in the 70s), we had a troop project that involved having us lads mash thousands of them into crumbs (with our bare hands), which we then scattered on iced-up local canals and ponds to give the little birdies something to eat during a particularly cold winter. I presume the crackers were donated to the Scouts after the Civil Defense realized that if the Russkies did in fact drop the Big One, the whole bomb-shelter thing would be basically useless.
It's funny, there was some stuff like that in our basement in BH. An elder resident of our building, great guy, lived there since the early 50s, said that our basement was a fallout shelter (the sign is still there) and there are still a couple of drums around that they use for storage.
As far as the crackers go, I guess they had to be high calorie to keep up with the flesh falling off your bones...
I stumbled onto the "Civil Defense Museum" where they explain all the fallout shelter goodies and all sorts of other related stuff.
Toby, good link - the guy who runs that is suspicious of this finding in a really hilarious way. ("I guess the original story was in the Times.")