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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:45 am 
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Wisconsin family discovers fully-stocked fallout shelter in their back yard 50 years after it was installed at the height of the Cold War

By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 02:20 GMT, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 02:21 GMT, 2 May 2013

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For more than a decade after they moved into their house in Neenah, Wisconsin, the Zwick family knew they had a Cold War bunker in their backyard.

It was not until 2010 that anyone thought to open the heavy steel hatch, climb down the ladder and explore the 8-foot-by-10-foot chamber that the home's previous owner had built to protect his family from a nuclear attack.

Floating in five feet of water that had seemed into the bunker were sealed U.S. Army boxed packed with all of the supplies a family would need to survive two weeks underground.

'We assumed it was just this empty space,' homeowner Carol Hollar-Zwick told the Appleton Post-Crescent.

The boxes, old military ammunition crates, contained markings that suggested there might be explosives inside, so the family called the local branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

Agents opened the crates to find... Hawaiian Punch.

'It was all of what you would expect to find in a 1960s fallout shelter. It was food, clothing, medical supplies, tools, flashlights, batteries - items that you would want to have in a shelter if you planned to live there for two weeks.'

Everything remained remarkably well-preserved, thanks to the airtight containers the supplies were kept in.

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The family donated all of the items to the Neenah Historical Society, which has curated an exhibit about the Cold War and the fear of the Soviets using 'the bomb.'

....more at link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-War.html

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PostPosted: Thu May 02, 2013 4:24 pm 
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It took them 10 years to open and go inside the hatch? Good thing they weren't characters on the tv show "Lost". :)

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How cool to see the packaging from the 60's. My grandmother always had butterscotch candy on hand to give to me. Loved it!

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 8:45 pm 
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I love seeing all the old packages and containers. I remember using Baggies. I wonder why they stopped selling them. Sandwiches fit perfectly in them.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:35 am 
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I like to see them too. And you're right about the sandwiches fitting so perfectly. All good things come to an end I guess.


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