# Fallout Shelter Discovered Under Brooklyn Bridge

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**Created:** [March 22, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge/349423 "2006-03-22T13:27:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge/349423/21 "2006-03-22T21:42:51Z")

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they are supposed to turn over these stocks from time to time. This one just got overlooked. I have eaten crackers packed in 1944. They didn’t taste of much, but they didn’t taste bad either.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge/349423/22 "2006-03-22T21:44:00Z")

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> [@alphaboi867](#):
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> Does Congress even have a shelter now?

Every member maintains at least one, typically in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands.  
Not that kind of shelter.

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**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge/349423/23 "2006-03-22T21:56:59Z")

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> [@Mk VII](#):
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> they are supposed to turn over these stocks from time to time. This one just got overlooked. I have eaten crackers packed in 1944. They didn’t taste of much, but they didn’t taste bad either.

My museum has some hard-tack crackers from the Civil War. I’ve been greatly tempted to crack off a tiny bit and taste it, but the fact that no mice or bugs have tried it in over 100 years gives me pause. (Plus, there’s the “blasphemy factor.”)

From what I’ve read, though, it doesn’t sound like hard-tack tasted all that great when it was new. I don’t know that age could have improved it, but it sure soesn’t look like it hurt it.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2006, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-shelter-discovered-under-brooklyn-bridge/349423/24 "2006-03-22T22:19:11Z")

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> [@Black Train Song](#):
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> came across a whole bunch of metal drums like that but they were empty.

The Library where I worked was a shelter.  
The drums were empty. You were supposed to fill them when the balloon went up.  
Can you imagine what would happen to the water pressure (assuming the water towers near Little Rock were still standing after Jacksonville Air Force Base was a glass parking lot along with all the minute man silos) when every shelter in the country began filling the cans? 🙂

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