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

[Agustin Neron Properties LLC]

Tony,
Cool on the Nike info.
There were at least two in the Gloucester Co area. One played a big role in GCARC FD in the mid-60s. I got my novice and joined GCARC (first time) in Jun 1967 and was invited to FD. The Nike Base in Pitman on Jefferson Rd was already shut down and abandoned by then, but there were still some nice desks that were used by the crew for FD. GCARC used it for FD for several years, I know definitely 1967 and 1968 when I operated. Not sure what happened, does anyone know the club history of this? Maybe our club historian could see if it's still mentioned in the old Crosstalks from that era. There was a 2nd Nike site on Berlin-Crosskeys Rd, that was decommissioned in 1974. I found this article of what happened to all the NJ Nike Bases, it's rich in Cold War history https://www.nj.com/news/2016/10/nuclear_winter_what_happened_to_njs_cold_war_missi.html



>     On 01/26/2021 5:04 PM Tony Starr <tstarr1450 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     Darrell,
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>     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.
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>     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.
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>     Tony K3TS
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>     On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 11:25 PM Agustin Neron Properties LLC < ab2e at comcast.net mailto:ab2e at comcast.net > wrote:
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>         > > 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
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> >         73 to all, and if you see a mushroom cloud......
> >         Darrell AB2E
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> >         > On 01/25/2021 10:58 PM Vinnie Sallustio < yankees_1996 at hotmail.com mailto:yankees_1996 at hotmail.com > wrote:
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> >         > 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!
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> >         > https://imgur.com/Ohhs9PB
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> >         > Vinnie N4NYY
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