[GCARC] Conelrad picture/+1950s 'duck and cover drill'

[Tony Starr]

Darrell,

I wasn't around in the 1950's, so I missed all the "Duck and Cover" fun!
But growing up in the suburbs around a "strategically important" city (read
that: TARGET), I do remember seeing another vestige of the cold war, NIKE
missile bases!  As a kid, they were both exciting and scary, as I imagined
that at any moment, one of them might leap from its silo on the way to take
out some Soviet heavy bomber as it got nervously close to us. ( I think
they had a range of about 75 miles HI HI).  Well the ICBM's rendered those
heavy bombers obsolete, though both sides refused to give them up, and
still have them to this day.  But the NIKE bases were all but done by about
1975 or so, ending that chapter of the cold war.

As we went into the 1980's, all that cold war fun was mostly forgotten by
Mr and Mrs Joe Public, so imagine my surprise going to work for a major
defense contractor in 1981 and finding out it was still going on!  It just
wasn't so visible any more.  But at least every now and then, we run across
some Cold War souvenir like a radio with Conelrad on the dial, to remind us
that the Good Old Days weren't always better, just different!  73.

Tony K3TS

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:25 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC <
ab2e at comcast.net> wrote:

> Vinny,
> You jogged my memory with that Conelrad poster of something I experienced
> in grade school in the late 1950s.
> I had to Google it to find the program, but it was called
> "duck-and-cover". The idea being that in the event of a nuclear attack and
> you saw the mushroom cloud out the window, just 'duck and cover' under your
> desks!
> https://www.history.com/news/duck-cover-drills-cold-war-arms-race
>
> 73 to all, and if you see a mushroom cloud......
> Darrell AB2E
>
> > On 01/25/2021 10:58 PM Vinnie Sallustio <yankees_1996 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If anyone is into old radios, you may want to print this in color, and
> hang it in the shack. It is a must have for every shack!
> >
> > https://imgur.com/Ohhs9PB
> >
> > Vinnie N4NYY
> >
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