Thanks!
Interesting stories guys. :D
EM-1. I always though we should have some goo Champagne stored somewhere. Our job was to flush as many as possible and after that, I always thought the best thing to do was go outside with a glass of Champagne and toast the incoming since it would be the last thing we did. I suppose this may sound crude to many, esp the younger generation, but it was the times we lived in.
Boy, do those CD signs bring back memories. Most in my home town seem to be gone now. One of the last items went away around 1975 when the city decided to build a new city hall. They had to tear down the old bus station, that at one time was also one of the old main trolley stations, the old city hall, and a few other old and almost historical buildings, but allso the old Civil Defense spotter tower, that towered over the port area for years.
Also remember the drills we had in USAF Tech School. running to the assigned fallout shelter. Then, a group of us got to our first PCS base. During orientation, one of the guys asked our escort about the fallout shelters, since in two days, we hadn't seen any markings. He laughed, and said it was time to grow up. We were told to think of us sitting on a bull's eye target, and there were 2 to 5 nuke missles with our address. If something were to happen, we would report to our duty stations, do our jobs to get as many TAC fighters off the ground, and if we had a minute to breathe, we should be ready to bend over, stick our heads between our legs, and kiss our arses goodbye, because there would at some time be one or more bright flashes, we would be incinerated before we could feel it, and after things quieted down, the base would be a big radioactive crater. We wouldn't need shelters.
These are AMAZING. I don't know your sources, but could you put together a Cold-War era sheet with more fallout shelter signs, civil defense stuff and siren ads? My layout is set in that era, and I'm having issues with finding these.
Thanks
Thanks Tomcat-13 for all your hours of work. Am taring down now and going to start a new layout but I
am so impressed by your time and effort. Again Thank you. DR
Also all, some of the adds in Farm Collector in the section Iron age ads can be used for signs, and if Tomkat posted any of those, I didn't notice them.
http://www.farmcollector.com/search.aspx?search=iron%20age%20ad
Like everyone else I'd Like to say Great Job and Thank you. Some day I hope to use a few of the signs, but that may be long while from now. Also, I'd like to say it amazes me how few of your signs appear multiple times.
Tomkat,
Thank you for the signs. It does appear that my hometown has a bit of an alcohol related past. Peoria does have quite a few people of German and central European descent, myself included. Manufacturing, distilling, grain handling, coal, and a variety of railroads really contributed to Peoria's growth.
Anyway, thanks again.
Bob
Modeling in N scale: Rock Island freight and passenger, with a touch of the following; Wabash Cannon Ball, CB&Q passenger, and ATSF freight and passenger. I played in Peoria (Heights).
Tomcat,
Thank you for your time and efforts. I especially appreciate something from Peoria, hint hint. Where do you find all these signs. As my door layout in planning could be in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, or Missouri.... the mid-western themes work well.
Many thanks again,
Here are some more billboard/signs. Lets see some photos of your sign usage!