(1954) OPERATION APPLEJACK NATIONWIDE ATOMIC ATTACK PREPAREDNESS DRILL NYC FOOTAGE

A LITTLE TASTE OF A NEW YORK CITY MOST OF US NEVER SAW AND PROBABLY CAN NOT IMAGINE. THE THOUGHT OF NEW YORKERS FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS TO CLEAR THE STREETS AND FIND SHELTER FROM A HYPOTHETICAL ATOMIC ATTACK IS MINDBLOWING BUT THE TRUTH IS THE AVERAGE GOTHAM RESIDENT WAS SCARED TO DEATH OF SOVIET BOMBERS ON THE HORIZON LADEN WITH ATOMIC BOMBS. THIS WAS ONLY NINE YEARS POST HIROSHIMA AND FALLOUT SHELTERS WERE YEARS AWAY "AIR RAID SHELTERS" WERE WHAT THEY WERE CALLED USUALLY A PARKING GARAGE OR A SUBWAY STATION. FINDING ONE WAS FAIRLY EASY NO YELLOW AND BLACK GOTHIC LOOKING FALLOUT SHELTER SIGN JUST A WHITE AND BLACK BOMB SHELTER SIGN A VERY VERY RARE FIND ON NEW YORK CITY STREETS TODAY, I ALMOST SNAGGED ONE 10 YEARS AGO IN MIDTOWN JUST HANGING OVER A FREIGHT ENTRANCE, I DID THE UNTHINKABLE AND ASKED THE BUILDING OWNER FOR THE SIGN AND UPON LEARNING OF IT HE PROMPTLY TOLD ME BUZZ OFF AND TOOK IT FOR HIMSELF WHILE A HANDYMAN SHOOK HIS HEAD AND SAID "YOU SHOULDA SLIPPED ME FIVE BUCKS AND IT WOULDA BEEN YOURS....."  SADLY.....I NEVER CAME ACROSS ANOTHER .