How the Fallout Symbol Was Created

[CountryGent]

Some history nerdliness others might enjoy as well.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp5C_f8GaYk

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[Knobgoblin]

I stole an aluminum fallout shelter sign off the wall of a derelict hospital in 1987/88

 

[monkeybutler]

I stole an aluminum fallout shelter sign off the wall of a derelict hospital in 1987/88

I've got one too. A gift from my dad's old work buddy. All I remember about him is that he raced Formula Ford cars, and his wife had absurdly big knockers.

 

[edzz]

I stole an aluminum fallout shelter sign off the wall of a derelict hospital in 1987/88

"a derelict hospital" could you use that in a sentence?

For clarification was this a hospital that was no longer in use or a hospital dedicated to derelicts.

Example, "We had to take the dog to the animal hospital".

 

[Diamondback]

I read it to mean "abandoned crumbling ruin."

 

[Bacchus]

I remember a news item a few decades ago where some prankster painted a few barrels with the radioactive symbol, and then sent them floating down the Columbia River near the Hanford Nuclear site. I thought that was hilarious but the sheriff who was sent to investigate was seriously unamused.

 

[Knobgoblin]

"a derelict hospital" could you use that in a sentence?

For clarification was this a hospital that was no longer in use or a hospital dedicated to derelicts.

Example, "We had to take the dog to the animal hospital".

Lakewood wa ,on 100th street between Bridgeport way and 59th.

Closed down unceremoniously and the local kids proceeded to break or steal everything in the building.

I'm a looter , shoot me.

 

[AshWilliams]

Lakewood wa ,on 100th street between Bridgeport way and 59th.

Closed down unceremoniously and the local kids proceeded to break or steal everything in the building.

I'm a looter , shoot me.

My friend group growing up frequented any desolate, esoteric, or off limits location: abandoned houses, uninhibited parts of military bases, tunnels underneath a local venue.

If there was an abandoned hospital nearby we'd have been all over it.

 

[Diamondback]

Lakewood wa ,on 100th street between Bridgeport way and 59th.

Closed down unceremoniously and the local kids proceeded to break or steal everything in the building.

I'm a looter , shoot me.

Lakewood General. I was born and my grandfather died in that hospital.


I tell ya, some people got no respect...

Aftermath, it's a strip-mall now.

 

[Mono1]

This is on the wall in my reloading room...




Just above the Declaration...

 

[Mono1]

Aftermath, it's a strip-mall now.

Better than a Strip Club!

 

[Diamondback]

Better than a Strip Club!

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*starts looking up Mono's coordinates for a Fartjar delivery*

 

[Knobgoblin]

Lakewood General. I was born and my grandfather died in that hospital.


I tell ya, some people got no respect...

Aftermath, it's a strip-mall now.

The apartments next to it were the border of my paper route.

 

[Tony617]

When I was working for a company in El Dorado Hills, CA we went to a bar in Folsom, CA where the city of Folsom used have its fallout shelter. The bar's name was Yeagers and it had 40 to 50 beers on tap at that time in the mid-1990s.

 

[Diamondback]

@Mono1 You wouldn't think it so funny if you'd ever been downrange of one... it was three days after Time Zero before they could let anyone back into the building containing Ground Zero and even I was nauseous at the aftermath.

 

[crstrode]

Some history nerdliness others might enjoy as well.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp5C_f8GaYk

When that dweeb said "luh-bore-uh-tory" it was time to move on.

 

[Bacchus]

Better than a Strip Club!

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How is that better?