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Submarine tower, Westport, MA
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― George W. ILX (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.isil.org/resources/fnn/2003summer/missile-silo.jpg

Soviet missile silo, Lithuania

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/images/mhgun4.jpg

Gun emplacement in Marin County, California.

― Nemo (JND), Monday, 26 July 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

a WWII bunker on the shore of Cape May, New Jersey:

http://www.stuofdoom.com/bunker5.jpg

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to walk across a WWII airfield on my way to school. Must try and dig out my photos of the ruined hangars.

In the meantime, an extreme close-up of a WWII gun emplacement.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.arrakis.es/~drdoom/drdoom/img/wopr_image24.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 26 July 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, my local area is riddled with ex-WW2 and Cold War stuff. In the 1960s, British submarines kept in touch with their commanders via a radio base that was in the next village from here. My grandparents' house was just by its gates. If a war had blown up, they'd have been toast within minutes.

There's also lots of giant, disused radar dishes on hills; forts on stilts a mile or so offshore; half-hidden bunkers buried in sand dunes, and so on. And disused RAF bases every few miles.

― caitlin (caitlin), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The islands off the coast near my house are riddled with bunkers and anti sub emplacements.... seems funny to think we were worried about the Krauts popping up in rural Massachusetts.

Lots of the nautical maps have unexploded mines, torpedos and bombs on them. There's a few places in the ocean that are off limits to diving, fishing, lobstering, etc due to their use as bombing test areas

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Monday, 26 July 2004 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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Wendover airfield, Utah. Sarah and I spent a while wandering around it last summer. If I can find pics of the air force ghost town surrounding the airfield I'll post them too.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://i.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1965/1101651217_400.jpg

arthur schlesinger, jr.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone here read paul virilio?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gairspace.org.uk/htm/modarch6.htm

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

wow

― Whiskeytown Littlecock (ex machina), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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