The article follows the Perkins family, who decided to do a test living in a shelter for seven days. Check it out (click on images to view their Flickr pages, then click "All Sizes."): Not the best photography, but there are some quaint images that I scanned and would like to share with you. This one was interesting: "Guerrilla Warfare", with the tagline, "It'll be done by the people who survive with equipment that survives." The chapter is filled with then-impressive photos of military weapons and vehicles: jets, tanks, missiles, and the like. In the table of contents you'll find chapter headings with titles like: "How You Can Survive a Nuclear War", "Build a Shelter Now", "Stock Up Now", "Have a Plan of Action Now", "While You Are in Shelter", "Evacuation", etc. Most of what you'll find in the handbook is pretty standard construction "how-to's" - it could've been sold at a Home Depot if they had them back then. I didn't even take a gander at what was inside until later at home. What I love the most about it is that Mom is in her day dress, apron and all, preparing dinner, and Dad is relaxing in his jacket, smoking a pipe, having just finished reading the liner notes to something by the Ray Coniff Singers, probably. The cover is classic: your average white American family enjoying life as best as they can after an atomic attack.
The illustrated cover was what initially caught my eye but then I glanced at the large bold lettering at the top and I immediately put it in my "to buy" pile. I found this musty handbook from 1962 in a pile of similarly musty magazines and articles in a booth at the Inman Park Arts Festival several years back. UPDATE: I've scanned more images - check them out HERE.
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