Albuquerque’s Cold War Blast Shelter

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[@savannidaniels6950]

Oh my god finally I found it lol came here from tiktok 😁😁

[@blaxx8914]

Yea. Me too 😅

[@kathrynkin6238]

Same

[@clonedsim1196]

Glad you all made it here!

[@adikrasniqi5367]

Hi!

[@GerardoJuarezTitoMpi]

Same here 🙋🏻‍♂️ I thought the shelter was going to be bigger or at least full of stuffs like beds, stands I don’t know 😅

[@paraguaymike5159]

Cool! I mean from the standpoint of people watching this over 60 years later. Back in the day, that shelter was built from a feeling of terror.

[@clonedsim1196]

Unsettlingly, the Cold War with Russia brought this shelter to life, and look where we are today with Russia, even six decades on.

[@pixelpatter01]

I lived in Connecticut during this time. My best friend's father and uncle built a shelter in their backyard. I helped them dig a tunnel under the house to the shelter and do other things two 15 year olds could be tasked to do. My family moved before it was finished but they sent me pictures of the final shelter which proved to be a dark depressing looking place. No doubt very damp as well. I'm sure glad it wasn't needed.

[@clonedsim1196]

How cool!! Do you know if it’s still there??

[@pixelpatter01]

@@clonedsim1196 I don't know if it's still there. I've lost touch with all the people. I know the location but I can't put it out here. I looked at Google Maps and I don't see any irregularities in the back yard lawn, so it may have been removed.

[@joaoosilveira1468]

broo, that's so coooooll, that fallout manual, the food, you got a museum in your house haha

[@clonedsim1196]

It is like that!! It’s pretty freaking awesome.

[@clonedsim1196]

@Peter Evans 🤣🤣🤣

[@TheAnetmusik]

Thank you for making this video! In July 2020, in the early stages of the pandemic, I purchased a home in Alabama that had a fallout shelter built in 1960. It had been ignored since the mid 90's. (By a neighbor's account possibly longer) the wooden staircase was spongy due to about 4 inches of standing water. It was infested with spiders, cave crickets, roaches and had a lot of black mold. It had a spring loaded escape hatch in addition to the main trap door. It has now been fully restored and improved with 2 sump pumps, cell phone reception external antenna, food, water etc...It makes a great storm shelter.

[@clonedsim1196]

Very cool!!! Sounds like a hell of a project!!

[@rmoon6005]

I came here from the live, this is just so interesting to me! I remember which municipal buildings were fallout shelters, when I was a kid. I had forgotten how prevalent the great of nuclear war was back in the 60’s. Thanks for sharing!!

[@clonedsim1196]

So glad you stopped by!! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pcguysoffgridcabin]

I have a friend who bought a former post office built in the 1950s, It had a fallout shelter that was designed to hold 125 people. It is now a pool and rec room in a restraunt.

[@clonedsim1196]

That’s really cool!

[@jetdrums1]

As a home inspector, I see a few of these in the Bay Area. Some really extravagant , some basic...

[@clonedsim1196]

That would be so awesome!

[@Ozark-nq9uu]

My uncle used to have a lightbulb that he and my dad told me that my grandpa had bought that bulb in the 60s it was used and over 20 years old at that time. Last I knew it still worked

[@markhowards420]

Planned obsolescence , it's despicable . Have you seen the fire station lamp that's so old they have a birthday party for it?

[@AnonAnonAnon]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. Fallout/blast/bomb shelters are or were rare here in England, only for the rich. I can still remember back to 1979 when an old house was abandoned around the corner from me. It had a cellar and me and my mates (all young teens) came up with a scheme to bomb proof the cellar! Funny enough, the house was demolished a few months later..!

[@clonedsim1196]

Glad you enjoyed it!! I LOVE that shelter, especially with the history behind it.

[@hrdknox2000]

Dude! That is awesome! I have one, of not two, dosimeter sets like that. That's meant to advise the shelter occupants of radiation amounts endured, as radiation exposure is a cumulative thing. The fallout jacket was meant to keep alpha and beta particles off of you. The problem lies therein that those are most dangerous when inhaled or ingested. The jacket would be little more than one of those emergency ponchos. Perma-Pak was around in the late 90's as people geared up for Y2K. I don't know if they're still in business or not, now. Those "Fifty Shades of Grey" chains on the entrance were most likely meant to hold the blast hatch on, after the blast overpressure passed and created the reverse (sucking) effect. Thanks for sharing! I love this stuff!

[@clonedsim1196]

Glad you enjoyed it!! Thanks for the info!!

[@teslacoiler]

not 100% true. Both "pens" were dosimeters, but only one was meant to be a dosimeter (the blue one, which have a scary 600R full scale!); the other dosimeter (the brown one) was meant to be a very crude ratemeter instead. The principle is quite simple, the brown dosimeter was calibrated for 2R full scale but it contained two different scales instead (one 0-to-120R/h scale that was meant to be read after one minute of exposure and one 0-to-12R/h scale that was meant to be read after 10 minutes of exposure). Theoretical, you can also use this instrument to read smaller radiation levels by increasing the exposure time (the full scale value will be 1.2R/h with 100 minutes of exposure time, 120mR/h with 1000 minutes of exposure time, 12mR/ with 10000 minutes) but of course the device may become less useful because of the very long measuring time required. BTW, the massive radiation levels caused by a detonation will decrease pretty quickly over the time and only the very first 48 hours are crucial for survival purposes (after 48 hours the radiation intensity will be one hundredth of the initial value-still very high but you can still leave the bunker for several hours to search for food and beverages of for escape from the blast area- and after 14 days the radiation will drops to 1/1000 - definitely enough to escape or to start the decontamination)

[@ZachVanHarrisJR]

*This probably adds a little more equity to the home*

[@whereswaldo5740]

Still a desirable feature in a home. I knew a guy that became a doctor that bought a home with a really well built one. It had a huge steel door on it. He owned full auto and all kinds of nice things. Great gun safe.

[@danroberts2055]

My grandfather was hired to dismantle nuclear bomb silos and had many stories of the people who worked with him and the sites (hidden in the Ozarks of Arkansas) I believe they are still there!

[@clonedsim1196]

Very cool!!!!

[@josephhenshaw4912]

Wish my relationship was made in 1961

[@esanch4918]

Wow! Quite a blast from the past! The Duke City was a potential high value target.

[@clonedsim1196]

It’s true! Lotsa military secrets hiding in the Sandia Mountains!

[@SpasticSpelunker]

I think the ground and antenna wires are simply just for a radio to listen for government broadcasts. Older radios often had earth wires as well as antenna

[@clonedsim1196]

Makes perfect sense!

[@lovableluckyandfriends]

Thanks for that tour! History is so interesting.

[@clonedsim1196]

So happy you enjoyed it!!

[@alteredorbit6720]

The light bulb at the end.

[@clonedsim1196]

Oh, right?!!

[@Nanda12_95]

Just found ur TikTok saw you linked ur KZbin page and now I’m here with a bowl of popcorn thanks 🥳

[@clonedsim1196]

So glad you enjoyed it!!!

[@matt_anita-janeadventures]

Stumbled on to this video. It made me very claustrophobic just watching it.

[@clonedsim1196]

I believe that!

[@kevinclark6289]

I was very surprised that it wasn't all that deep underground. I thought you were going to go down to another level.

[@rob_odd]

Thank you very much for this video!! Wish I had such a cool shelter in our house.

[@clonedsim1196]

Happy you enjoyed it, Rob!!

[@heatherrn65]

That was awesome Addison thank you so much for sharing this

[@clonedsim1196]

Glad you enjoyed it, Heather!!

[@josephhenshaw4912]

Damn, they were really expecting the worst

[@clonedsim1196]

No doubt, huh?? Kinda scary.

[@Hooderaw]

It almost happened during the Cuban missile crisis back when JFK was president in the 60's. Russia was putting missiles in Cuba. It was about to hit the fan. Look at the movie "Thirteen Days'.

[@tonyv8925]

@@Hooderaw My family was so scared of nuclear war that my Dad and neighbor worked together and built an underground fallout shelter that would hold both of our 2 families for about 2 weeks. To this day, 50 years later, I still feel a bit anxious when I hear the monthly tornado siren tests in my area.

[@Hooderaw]

@@tonyv8925 dude, I will never forget the movie 'The Day After'. It puts things in perspective about how bad it is.

[@mikusion]

Good protection, there is a joke about what to do when bomb alarm is sounding: find clean white sheet, put it on and crawl towards nearest cemetery.

[@onerousealien745]

This is soooo cool... good presentation too👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

[@clonedsim1196]

Thank you so much!!! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@royrice6060]

All that time, work and money. Driven by paranoia. That WAS the thinking in America in the 50’s and early 60’s. A different time. 👍👍👍

[@claramullen]

I grew up in the fallout shelter era of the 60's a neighbor had built one it was amazing.

[@clonedsim1196]

Pretty amazing stuff, isn’t it???

[@LeeC_808]

This is is too cool but a little creepy. Can you imagine buying this home second hand and finding this shelter after the fact? It makes sense though it is ABQ. Sandia is well known for its nuclear...research.

[@clonedsim1196]

I’m glad it’s here for that reason exactly!!

[@nmsenior12]

New Mexican native here! 👋🏼 This is so cool! Thanks for sharing!

[@clonedsim1196]

Hey there fellow New Mexican!!🙌

[@bRad-ns6iy]

Very cool! Thanks for showing us!

[@clonedsim1196]

You’re most welcome!!

[@wanaraz]

The way it's built is still viable for today. Some food water and make sure the air thing works. Good to go.

[@mariusmarius4878]

Extraordinary ! You are a lucky man.

[@RJM1011]

That was great to see thank you for the video and thumbs up.

[@clonedsim1196]

Thank you Richard!

[@stevenmerlock9971]

Loved it, cozy. This design was tested and cost 2,400 at the time. A more expensive and better design, cost 5k but included L turns and decontamination showers with airlock doors. Back when government needed us, we had civil defense and active programs to help civilians. Regular workers used simple building materials to build temporary fallout shelters $400 - 800. blast shelters were for the rich and elite government employees.

[@arricammarques1955]

$2.400.00 back in 1962 was a serious investment of funds.

[@JamesReedy]

@@arricammarques1955 Assuming around 3% per year inflation it would work out to $14,000 in contemporary money.

[@davidm1635]

that's one of the best fallout shelters and intro's I've seen, congrats on obtaining access to document it!

[@clonedsim1196]

Thank you so much David!

[@Santafefashionweek]

Love it, thank you for sharing

[@clonedsim1196]

Thanks Stephen!!

[@kristiderouin3753]

This is so cool!

[@whileecoyote8719]

I know my comment is a little late to the show, but as for filtration, shelters like this usually had a fiberglass filter pad that was inside the top of the air pipe outside of the shelter.

[@kevobrando95lx44]

It's Soo funny how accurate fallout the game was in capturing the campyness of 1950/60s American atomic age media. It reminds me of my grandpa for some reason

[@clonedsim1196]

Bethesda did an INCREDIBLE job with that game series!! I love it! Even snagged myself a Fallout lunchbox and Vault 101 hoodie. 🤣

[@Gollammeister]

Nice condition excellent selling point on house plus adds value and security to home heck could use it as a panic room in which case I'd have added a third exit tunnel if poss well away from house in case of homd invasion fire etc

[@greenwolf401]

Amazing

[@MrKano37]

Could be used as a tornado shelter also 👍

[@clonedsim1196]

Oh, definitely!!

[@billycarroll9153]

Great commentary. You should have a TV series.

[@clonedsim1196]

Thanks Billy!! 😊😊

[@billycarroll9153]

@Funny Stuff... Obviously you have a talent you might not have been aware of. All the comments here seem to be on the same page. It’s your on screen charisma. Never know, you could be the next big thing on KZbin. “This Ole Bomb Shelter”. LOL

[@clonedsim1196]

Billy Carroll I’ve done a little acting in the past, maybe someone from HGTV will see this!!

[@billycarroll9153]

@Funny Stuff ...stranger things have happened in a Pandemic. Best of luck to you. And MAKE ANOTHER VIDEO!!

[@1991jdclark]

Very cool.

[@mattpettit6267]

Came from TikTok, but I live in burque too! Crazy your house has that, with mine did too haha.

[@clonedsim1196]

That’s awesome!!!

[@I_touched_your_father]

This is interesting thank you for sharing. Also I came from TikTok love the vids man

[@clonedsim1196]

I appreciate that, glad you’re enjoying what I do!!

[@SDS_Solar]

I'm staying here when shit hits the fan

[@tonyv8925]

I live a few miles from a primary target, a military base. So, if someone pushes the button for a few milliseconds I will see a bright flash and then turn into a cloud of radioactive molecules. Too old to be worried anymore.

[@TheFrenchDude]

Pretty accurate recommendation

[@JonnyMudMower]

That air pump needs to live with me lol

[@clonedsim1196]

🤣🤣🤣

[@randolphphillips3104]

yup, back when they taught us to hide under our desks and cover our heads with wet newspaper.

[@joevsyou]

super cool!

[@shirleymatthews2980]

Wish I had one at my house love it

[@clonedsim1196]

It’s like living above a museum!!

[@thewatcher5271]

Not Exactly 'Blast From The Past' But It Is Pretty Cool & You Could Survive A Tornado In It But You'd Need To Have The Escape Hatch Open Inward.

[@megastick9324]

Right? Debris falls on hatch, you’re done.

[@cannabisenthusiast8351]

My mans told a 15 minute story every 2 feet he walked

[@clonedsim1196]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jaykraft7003]

Still watching but thanks for taking the time to make this.

[@clonedsim1196]

So glad you enjoyed it, Jay!!

[@TrinaBoice]

Very cool!

[@clonedsim1196]

Thank you Trina!!

[@u.s.militia7682]

I’d definitely want to have two hidden fresh air intakes with several filters. I’d freak out knowing I only had one option.

[@clonedsim1196]

No question at all!

[@Bearisgoldenuk]

So sick bro! Stay golden! More videos!

[@clonedsim1196]

Thanks Bear!! I’ll do my best!!

[@Bearisgoldenuk]

@@clonedsim1196 Stay Golden Bro! You Got This!

[@bdilla225]

Wonder how the wifi signal is down there because that would be my room! 🤣😂

[@hrdknox2000]

He had commo wires run into the shelter. You could easily add one of those dome-shaped cell antennas down there, or build a raspberry pie.

[@nmelkhunter1]

Very interesting video. That would be a great place to hide in a game of hide and seek. Of course that’s assuming no one knew about it.

[@dave-o3674]

All doctors have them falk out shelters...Only drug addict women and teens that were said to transfered or escaped AFTER BEING WARDS OF THE STATE KNEW ABOUT THE DOCTORS FALL OUT SHELTER...they all look like those forgotten parts of the subway, WHERE TEENAGERS AND DRUGGIES FIND FOUND A PLACE TO GRT HIGH AND PROSTITUTE THEM SELVES...there was alot of college Fraternities into the Occult back then AND NOW

[@jillpeterson7058]

Here from TikTok 💕

[@bjrnhansen697]

Id make it my apoc survival gear storage room. No way Id live down in it for days with several other people 😅

[@clonedsim1196]

Same!!! 🤣🤣🤣. Too small and waaaay too echo-y! 🤣

[@RHEC1776]

You should ask the daughter for a family photo and set up a little corner museum in the shelter.

[@clonedsim1196]

Good call!

[@toecutter8002]

I've always wanted a house with a bunker but I want a bunker under a bunker. If I won the lottery I would probably just build my entire home underground lol

[@clonedsim1196]

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Good call!

[@keithconti6057]

convert to the ultimate panic room/ privacy room

[@CANAL_FY]

I came across FB group! Very nice!!!!

[@clonedsim1196]

Glad you enjoyed our little tour, Felipe!

[@CANAL_FY]

@@clonedsim1196 its not an regular video, the way you made it was very awesome!

[@clonedsim1196]

Felipe Yassuda Thanks Felipe!!

[@tuoppi42]

I wonder if they had a clock in there originally, I would imagine it would be good to have some indication of time when you are waiting for the radiation levels to drop - on the other hand, wrist watches were very common.

[@clonedsim1196]

Very true! You’re probably right about the wrist watch.

[@jasond3954]

I mean.....can you imagine spending any kind of time down there? Maybe you're going to hack it for a couple days but after awhile you're going to lose your mind. No cell phone, no power, no running water, no toilet, probably only battery operated flashlight and some books to pass the time. Possibly no oxygen due to lack of ventilation and no power to the pump. Eventually you emerge to an fried earth above that radioactive. I think maybe this helped the guy living there sleep at night but really you're probably just delaying the inevitable.

[@clonedsim1196]

Oh, you’re totally right! And then imagine being down there with three or four other people even! And that place is like a tomb, completely silent when you’re in there with the doors closed.

[@louisaloi9178]

No nothing,just (pause) TERROR😱

[@australianwoman9696]

@@clonedsim1196 I don't know about you, but I'd love it. I'd fill that place with music & light paint a lovely nature scene around me so I can imagine. I'd add a fish tank that doubles as a grow station. (beta fish) Cooking would pose the biggest problem. Probably need a lifetime collection of candles. (with a carbon dioxide alarm) All those old movies, lifetime supply of chocolate & lollies. Plants to make it homey. A double bed & fluffy blankets. A spray bottle to spray myself clean & a shammy. I'd positively thrive as I hate noise. Yes I'd poke my head out every two weeks but I'd be very happy generally with the solitude. (I'd have to section a part off for a growing station as ultraviolet grow light isn't healthy.) Multivitamins & vitamin D. Hmmm.... sounds good. EVENTUALLY though I'd yearn for company or contact of some kind so add a CB radio. My manual foot pedal generator would offer me exercise & power up my deep cycle battery. She'll be right mate ...

[@killerdeamonking]

When your in a survival situation you no longer have Cell phone signal , power , you will have running water however and battery light, He mentioned that there is a water tank. So to be honest i would rather not have power and cell phone signal if it meant my life and others who come with me are spared.

[@originalcheese3974]

Hidden Grow Room 💚

[@elijahstonehan9566]

Thank you for sharing, soon you will be useful.

[@clonedsim1196]

Hopefully not!!

[@smfknj6010]

How neat

[@Jay_DM]

Best gaming room

[@whereswaldo5740]

Fallout.

[@ddygy7280]

What was the plan for latrine issues?

[@clonedsim1196]

There was a chemical toilet down there at one point, but that’s all I know! 🤣

[@M70ACARRY]

Those cans of candy are delicious

[@connorhowell3427]

Geez that light switch been on since 1961?!

[@clonedsim1196]

Crazy, huh??

[@servicedogsgonewild7670]

Here from your live on tiktok

[@clonedsim1196]

Thank you for stopping by!!

[@kelleymasters9747]

Here from tiktok

[@butchkaminsky9470]

Everything made in America for real American families!

[@cartman4885]

Secret club house for the kids...........

[@smokum0]

2022 and here we are again

[@clonedsim1196]

Yeah…. That bit’s a little unnerving….

[@DEKZFilms]

I feel like a toilet would’ve been good to put in there

[@bjkjoseph]

That bomb shelter need some feng shui adjustments

[@miguelcastaneda7236]

alot of older banks have these under them theres a huge one in covina calif a auto dealership uses it to store hundreds of cars

[@clonedsim1196]

That’s awesome!!

[@freerbt4839]

This is so cool, but I be afraid of being stuck in there due to the hatches being so heavy!

[@farmtruck9885]

I think I would be more afraid of half the house being on top of the hatches.

[@kilkill84]

I want one...

[@akamano5]

..i remember in the 50's there was alot of paranoia about Russian bombing... so people built bomb shelters .. there was a Civil defense book with instructions...

[@clonedsim1196]

Scary times!!!

[@B-leafer]

Duck and cover!

[@clonedsim1196]

Indeed!! Heads under desks!! 🤣

[@Meowmeow.age.6]

MRE steve guy would eat that survival kit

[@clonedsim1196]

I actually tried a lot of it! I put a few of the taste test videos up on my TikTok.

[@supersprint22]

Duck and cover

[@sanction7627]

It's kindof amusing seeing all the comments from people who were unaware of all of this sort of thing.....

[@clonedsim1196]

I love introducing people to new and kinda weird stuff! 🤣

[@PheonixStarsx]

Some people may call him crazy , but they won’t be calling him crazy when the giant mushroom cloud is outside

[@alfredhatch3719]

I think I would prefer the one in Las Vegas.🤔

[@clonedsim1196]

🤣🤣

[@chetpomeroy1399]

A fallout shelter like that would really come in handy right now. Putin could push the button at any moment.

[@trumpingtonfanhurst694]

I live in Albuquerque. One of the largest nuclear warhead depots in the world is 7 miles away. The military airport and the city itself would be also targeted directly in a nuclear conflict. Shelter? you're dreaming. The whole area will be glassed.

[@clonedsim1196]

Do you have a better name for it, then?

[@Willystroker825]

Wow this guy got a free museum with a house

[@HabitualButtonPusher]

I couldn’t go down there. I’d get so clausty.

[@clonedsim1196]

Truth! It is TIGHT down there. You can feel that you’re underground.

[@DammitTammyLetsRide]

I just found it for your Tik Tok lol

[@shadowundergrounds2673]

sometime i ask myself should a build one of thoese too ? i mean we never know if one day is gonna be a zombie apocalypses or some nuclear bomb type thing 🤔🤔🤔

[@Timotheus157]

The cold hard reality is that the A-bomb shelter would actually be one's tomb post-attack.

[@clonedsim1196]

You ain’t lying! It’s a slim CHANCE to survive, the shelter.