NYC DEPARTMENT STORE MANNEQUINS GO TO SURVIVAL TOWN - WEAPON EFFECT TESTING

NYC MANNEQUINS USED IN ATOMIC WEAPON TEST TO RIDE OUT ATOMIC BLAST  IN

 "SURVIVAL TOWN"

THIS NEWSREEL SHOWS THE WEAPON EFFECT TESTING ON BUILDINGS,FABRICS,TEST SHELTERS,UTILITY LINES,TRAINS AND THE FEROCITY OF THE BLAST IS SHOWN THROUGH CAMERAS SURROUNDED BY OVER 4" OF LEAD, SOME OF THESE STRUCTURES ARE STILL OUT ON FRENCHMANS FLAT  AND ARE PROTECTED LANDMARKS.

NYC DURING THE 1950's AND 60's WAS A BUSTLING AREA OF COMMERCE JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING WAS MANUFACTURED THERE, ONE OF THE BIGGEST WAS THE FASHION DISTRICT AND LARGE DEPARTMENT STORES SHOPPERS AND FABRIC BUYERS MADE NYC THE CAPITOL OF FASHION AND WINDOW DISPLAYS WERE A VERY BIG PART OF NYC. WOMEN AND MEN WOULD STOP AND SEE THE CURRENT LOOK OR FASHION TREND BY GOING TO MACY's OR BLOOMINGDALES AND STAND ON THE SIDEWALK AND LOOK AT THE WINDOW DISPLAYS WHERE VOUGE MANNEQUINS AND WOMENNIQUINS DISPLAYED CLOTHING,THE 1950's HAD THE CITY ON EDGE WITH AIR RAID ALERT DRILLS AND HEADLINES ABOUT THE SOVIETS NEW BOMBERS AND THIS ANXIETY CARRIED OVER TO SHOPPERS ALTHOUGH MANY DESIGNS CAME FROM THE ATOMIC AGE "THE BIKINI" DESIGNED AFTER THE BIKINI ATOLL NUCLEAR TEST , AND MADE MONEY FOR NYC's STORES SO WHEN THE CALL CAME FOR VOLUNTEERS TO BE INHABITANTS OF WHAT WAS NAMED SURVIVAL TOWN IF YOU WERE AN OPTIMIST OR DOOM TOWN IF YOU WERE A PESSIMIST NYC WINDOW DISPLAY MANNEQUINS WERE THE FIRST TO GO AND SERVE THEIR NATIONS DEFENSE IN THE NEVADA TEST SITE WOMEN CHILDREN AND MEN MANNEQUINS FROM MACY's,GERTZ,BLOOMINGDALES,A&S,JC PENNEYS WERE SOON ON THEIR WAY TO MERCURY NEVADA,ALONG WITH MANNEQUINS FROM AROUND THE UNITED STATES TO THE NEVADA ATOMIC WEAPON TEST SITE. AND WOULD NEVER SEE NYC OR THEIR DEPT STORE AGAIN.

 CIVIL DEFENSE CHIEF APPEARS TO BE CHATTING WITH AN INHABITANT OF SURVIVAL TOWN





HERE THE QUINS CHECK OUT THE BASEMENT SHELTER ,AND THE MALE IS WEARING A BATHROBE THAT LOOKS LIKE THE SAME PICTURED IN A FABRICS TEST PICTURE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST ALSO I WOULD LOVE TO FIND A JOHNSON & JOHNSON CIVIL DEFENSE FIRST AID KIT I HAVE NEVER SEEN ONE.

 MACYS MATERNITY GETS THE KIDS READY FOR BED

AFTER THE TRIP FROM NYC THE QUINS FROM MACY's SETTLE IN TO THEIR NEW HOME .



HEY! WHY ARE ALL THOSE PEOPLE LEAVING SO FAST? ALMOST LIKE SOMETHINGS GOING YO HAPPEN

SETUP IN A VARIETY OF ACTIONS AND EVERYTHING AMONG THEM IS BEING TESTED FOR REACTION TO THE ATOMIC WEAPON CLOTHES,FURNITURE,WINDOWS,PAINT,



THE DESTRUCTION FROM THE ATOMIC TEST WAS UNLEASHED UPON THE MANNEQUINS WHO WERE CAUGHT UNAWARE THE TESTS IN THE DESERT OF NEVADA NEVER WERE IN THE MEGATON RANGE OR THERMONUCLEAR THESE SIZE WEAPONS WOULD HAVE NO DOUBT BEEN FELT IN LAS VEGAS. 

THE TOWNS MAIL DELIVERY SUFFERED HEAVY DAMAGE

THE AEC TEST AND RADIOLOGICAL TEAMS GO OVER A TEST SUBJECT THAT SHELTERED IN A CAR , THE INSPECTORS ARE WEARING SOME REAL SERIOUS RESPIRATORS THERE MUST OF BEEN SOME HIGH RESIDUAL RADIATION

ANOTHER INNOCENT MANNEQUIN

ANOTHER TEST SUBJECT MUST OF BEEN WEARING SOMETHING SECRET TO BE WRAPPED UP IN A SHEET AFTER THE TEST

THESE MANNEQUINS WERE OUT IN THE OPEN FOR THE TEST, IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE THEY JUST JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR AND TRIED TO MAKE A RUN FOR IT.

THE ATOMIC DEVICE CAUGHT THE MANNEQUINS OF SURVIVAL TOWN OR DOOM TOWN  UNAWARE  HAD THEY LISTENED AND DUCKED AND FOUND COVER THEY MIGHT BE BACK IN MACY's WINDOWS, NOTE THE BOARDS ON THE GROUND WITH FABRICS AND PAINT THIS WAS DOCUMENTED IN A TEST SITE FILM CALLED "THE HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE"

THE DAMAGE WAS OVERWHELMING AND TORE THROUGH HOMES AS IF THEY WERE PAPER. SOME OF THE TEST MANNEQUINS SEEM TO BE PEPPERED WITH SHRAPNEL, GLASS, SAND? EVEN BREAKING THE GLASS FROM A FRAMED PICTURE WITHOUT KNOCKING IT OFF THE WALL 



SOME OF SURVIVAL TOWNS RESIDENTS AND FURNISHINGS WENT ON A CIVIL DEFENSE TOUR AS SEEN HERE, LOS ANGELES COUNTY CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICIALS SEEM TO BE IN AWE OF HOW A MANNEQUIN WAS BROKEN UP IN PIECES AND SCORCHING OF FURNITURE AND RUBBER BALL IN FRONT

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT STORES AND CIVIL DEFENSE WERE ABLE TO TEST A VARIETY OF CLOTHING AND MATERIALS AS SEEN IN THE ABOVE PICTURES OF VARIOUS MANNEQUINS THAT WERE USED IN SURVIVAL TOWN ALMOST LOOKS LIKE MISSING PICTURES SINCE THE MAJORITY OF THE MANNEQUINS WERE BURIED OUT ON FRENCHMANS FLAT, AFTER BEING FOUND TO HOLD UNSAFE LEVELS OF RADIATION.

AFTER  THE LONG DRIVE FROM NEW YORK THEY FOUND PARKING PLENTIFUL IN SURVIVAL TOWN