[78-L] Did you Duck and Cover today? ^

[David Lennick]

On 11/4/2011 6:44 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>>> A little nostalgia from 60 years ago.
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60
>>>> dl (duck, Lennick)
>
> On 11/4/2011 6:03 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>> Thanks for making me feel old, David. I actually remember this.
>>> I must have seen it in the early '60s.   Cary Ginell
>
> This film was taken out-of-service somewhere between 1962 and 1964.  I
> got my 16mm print when our Audio-Video faculty advisor was unreeling it
> into the garbage to save the 400-foot reel.  He had a letter saying to
> discard it.  I asked if I could have it instead and he gave it to me
> including the original box.
>
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> We in Canada never saw any of this stuff, except occasional glimpses
>> on Buffalo TV.
>
> Because Canada was not considered a target of the Russkies!  You were
> too polite, I suppose.

Matter of fact, the CBC (which many still refer to even today as the Comrades' 
Broadcasting Corporation) ran Russian lessons every saturday and Sunday in the 
early 60s. Do svidanya.
>
>> I was amazed the first time I went to the old Goodwill
>> store on Division Street in downtown Buffalo in 1966 and saw the
>> fallout shelter sign over the door.   dl
>
> Goodwill was a fallout shelter???!!!!  What was it, Fort Knox??  If The
> Bomb was heading our way, were we supposed to head for Goodwill??!!
>
> And we were going to win the cold war with this??  No wonder Khrushchev
> said that he would bury us!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>