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Water barrel for a fallout shelter from the Cold War era seen in a flea market. (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Bonus: modern doomsday prepper booth in the same flea market.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I may or may not have first hand knowledge that there are a bunch of those barrels in the abandoned subway in Cincinnati...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It must have been a designated fallout shelter. This was part of a whole concept that people would go into places like that in large masses and wait out the nukes. My alma mater had a supposed fallout shelter in one of the buildings' stairwells. There were big signs up telling everyone that a stairwell with huge windows on every floor was a fallout shelter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It definitely was. There may have been corridors and bathrooms that were absolutely packed full of disassembled bunk beds.