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Cold War Bunker Found in Brooklyn Bridge! http://www.cnn.com/2006/U...index.html
Cold War bunker found in Brooklyn Bridge
Oh HELL yeah! By Hussein Saddique
Tuesday, March 21, 2006; Posted: 3:36 p.m. EST (20:36 GMT)
Hey! That's 3121! Is this why this date is so significant? 
NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York workers have discovered a trove of Cold War-era supplies within the masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge, a cache meant to aid in survival efforts in the event of nuclear attack.
I bet they those food pills that LleeLlee is always on about! City Department of Transportation employees were conducting maintenance on the structure Wednesday when they found the cache on the top floor of a three-floor space inside the bridge's base, agency spokeswoman Kay Sarlin said.
DOT employees were working?
Now THAT sounds dubious! Some containers were marked with two dates notorious in the annals of the Cold War: 1957, when the Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space, and 1962, the year of the Cuban missile crisis when the two superpowers may have come closest to war.
Nuclear holocaust and two containers of drygoods would have held people over?  Was FEMA in charge of this?
Sarlin said one of the containers was marked, "To be opened after attack by the enemy."
Were they written in English or Russian? 
The stockpile included empty water drums
Yer doin a heckof a job, Brownskie! 
and boxes of medical supplies, such as tourniquet bandages and an intravenous drip. Also, there were cans of high-calorie crackers with instructions to consume 10,000 calories a day per person.
The instructions said the crackers should be destroyed after 10 years, but they were mostly intact.
10 years of eating crackers?..  Blow me up now!
Sarlin said the space historically has been used for storage, but the department did not have any indication that the cache was stored there.
"It's hard to believe that the space was meant to be a fallout shelter, because it is not underground and light and air does get inside it," she said. "Could it have been a bunker for the mayor? We don't know." I bet it's something to do with Donald Trump...just a hunch... The Department of Transportation plans to donate the drums and cans to a civil defense museum, while it will turn over the medical supplies to the city's Department of Health for disposal.
Who gets the crackers? 
The bridge is a popular landmark that links Manhattan to Brooklyn. The supplies were found in the base just off the shoreline of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
On the Brooklyn side we got beer and chips.  | |
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10,000 calories a day???
We'd all be blimps! |
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sorry i didn't read it i just wanna be on your thread  | |
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What were they doing poking around in the masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge? In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. |
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what kind of bridge has a multi-storey building inside it??   She couldn't stop crying 'cause she knew he was gone to stay | |
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I believed the story right up until the part where it mentions the DOT workers WORKING.  By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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this should be a part of the invasion stop over  | |
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One of 9s best threads ever. | |
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Well I might be a big geek, but I think thats REALLY cool!!! Thanks 9sey | |
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2the9s said: I bet they those food pills that LleeLlee is always on about!
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This thread is painfully dull, but bless your heart for trying anyways.  | |
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look what they found in there | |
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Fun! I love this kind of shit. I used to live across the street from a park that was a converted military base, and there was this hill (now Kite Hill, where people frequently do, in fact, fly kites) that had a bunker built into it. It had a big padlock on the door. I still wanna go back and cut off the padlock. . . it seems like there should be treasure in there. Like, old crackers.  Seattle Org Invasion July 28th-30th  http://www.prince.org/msg/2/177514
Third Annual MinneVasion Oct 20-22nd http://www.prince.org/msg/2/183063 | |
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I actually have an unopened can of "Civil Defense All-Purpose Survival Biscuits" that looks just like the "Survival Crackers" can shown in that CNN picture. I think the date on it is 1963.
Apparently some military surplus stores were selling this stuff during the Y2K scare. One newspaper decided to open a can; they found that the biscuits were still edible, but tasted something like cardboard and/or sawdust. Please note: effective March 21, 2010, I've stepped down from my prince.org Moderator position. |
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