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I'am not sure but I was talking to an elderly friend today and he was looking at my Corvairs.. He noticed a EM Corvair radio on my bench.. He picked it up and said just as I remember, It has the Civil Defense markers... I said, do what.. He pointed to these little triangles and said back when these radios were made, they had dedicated civil defense channels.. In a time of war or emergency, you would tune into the triangles to get information.. Is this a fact or is this old mans clutch slipping a little? I never heard anything like that..
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wow, I have never heard that before. He's probably right.
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Fact. There was a lot of concern in the '50s and early '60s about a nuclear attack from Russia. Elaborate plans for evacuating cities were put in place, people built fallout shelters, and school kids practiced "duck-and-cover" (basically hiding under their desks). The Civil Defense channels were part of the "preparations". Of course none of it would have worked -- a fact the "experts" admitted years later. It was all a ruse to placate a worried populous. Btw, I graduated from high school in '57 and lived through those years.
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Yup, very true. As Dave pointed out. :)
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Not to be harsh or cynical, but I can't help but laugh at some of the idiot sheep that actually bought into all that civil defense BS that the Gov't was selling. Anyone with half a brain would have, in light of Hiroshima (which was a SMALL bomb when compared to the ones built during the cold war), realized that if a bomb was going to hit them that the ONLY manuver was to place their heads between their legs to kiss their asses goodbye.

To be fair people were, and still are, gullable so some things never change!
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Wabbitkiller wrote:Not to be harsh or cynical, but I can't help but laugh at some of the idiot sheep that actually bought into all that civil defense BS that the Gov't was selling. Anyone with half a brain would have, in light of Hiroshima (which was a SMALL bomb when compared to the ones built during the cold war), realized that if a bomb was going to hit them that the ONLY manuver was to place their heads between their legs to kiss their asses goodbye.

To be fair people were, and still are, gullable so some things never change!
Oh, yeah, and they had posted evacuation routes. Even as a grade school kid, I knew it was all bogus and felt the best place to be was at ground zero -- instant vaporization being better than a slow death from radiation poisoning. In the early to mid 60s, IBM subsidized the building of underground fallout shelters in employee's homes. You can still see some of them in older parts of Rochester.
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I remember these as" Connelrad"(SP?)Stations and you need to remember that these were put in place before most of us ever saw a real Atomic Bomb blast!Back in a time when a German sub could sink a ship right in sight of Coney Island Amusment Park and we could be made to believe it was "an accident caused the sinking "even though people from the park could clearly see the sub finish the ship with it's deck gun! These stations still exist but are now almost redundent with modern communications every channel almost instantly carries disaster news today and power back up etc. is common place back then not every station could operate in an emergency situation.The government could cover up a great deal back then convincing people it was best for "National security"today there'd be 100 Utube videos of that sinking in 5 minutes!
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