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News Briefs 16-06-2011

Why do I get the feeling this is somewhat connected to the 2012 Doomsday prophecy?

Thanks to Kat, Susan & N. H. Redington

Quote of the Day:

“All the kids from daycare are in dreamland. The froggie has made his last leap. Hell no you can’t go to the bathroom, you know where you can go? The f$%k to sleep.

Samuel L. Jackson, reciting from the book Go the F$%k to Sleep.

  1. Abandoned journeys
    This little exploration began with a click over to the Boing Boing story on the 1958 a-bomb survival suit. From there, I wandered into that site’s lobby and saw a story that immediately got my attention: “Urban infiltrators explore a 50-story abandoned tower in Bangkok”

    Background:
    I have had a love affair with old, abandoned buildings since I was a latchkey urchin roaming the historic areas of Savannah, Georgia back in the 1960s… before yankee money came south to buy up so many of the old Victorians and older post-Georgians and restore them to decadent splendor.

    On one occasion, I was exploring a kind of half-basement and found several early-to-mid 20th century beer signs. One was a half-moon shaped Budweiser light and the other a large ‘Burger Beer’ light box with clock. The home was and had been empty for as long as I had been looking it over. Everything was beyond being covered in dust. It was actually becoming buried under decades of dirt and growth.

    I hauled those two unique items out to the corner, caught a city bus back to my end of town and kept them in my room until I left for the Army at age 17. After that, they seemed to disappear from memory.

    Anyway, after clicking to the abandoned tower story, I found a link and beamed over to another site called ‘Abandoned Journey’ that is dedicated to exploring old buildings.

    Old prisons, asylums, homes, merchantiles, factories, stadiums… I still can’t resist this stuff. And there is one website with an extensive graphic record of decaying Detroit that is just incredible.

    Anyway, just thought I’d share. The link to the Abandoned Journey website is below. (I had an issue getting into their database but a few repeated clicks finally succeeded, and was worth the effort.)

    http://www.abandonedjourney.com/

  2. I Sort Of Remember The Atom Bomb Survival Suit!
    Red Pill,

    In 20/20 hind sight the atom bomb survival suit was stupid. But, in the 1950s, it sort of made sense. In the 1950s, schools had both fire drills and atom bomb drills in which students were evacuated from school buildings. During atom bomb drills at my elementry school, we went into an adjoining wooded area and hid behind a wooden embankment. In terms of nuclear war, the 1950s was a time when people were very paranoid!

    1. Agreed
      It was certainly a product that embodied an era. I’m sure our descendants will feel the same way when they learn in amazement how in the early XXth century airline passengers had to remove their shoes before boarding, and couldn’t travel with hair gel or bottles of water –how’s that for paranoia? 😉

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