An even-better CL ad: West Seattle bomb shelter for rent

bombshelter.jpgWe have sent a message to try to find out more. Meantime, figured you’d want to know about it if you hadn’t seen it already: CL ad even better than the one we linked in the WS Weekend Lineup post below — West Seattle bomb shelter for rent; the photo at left is one of four accompanying the CL posting. (Thanks to Diane for the tip!) P.S. Ever since seeing the ad, we haven’t been able to get this song out of our head, since the video came immediately to mind:

6:41 PM P.S. The bomb shelter’s owner e-mailed us back. We speculated in our first e-mail to them that they’d probably be inundated with conventional-media requests too, and in fact, the owner says channel 5’s coming by tonight. We’d try to doubleteam it but we’re headed for the Dyan Cannon lookalike winner announcement before “Deathtrap” at Youngstown Arts Center.

15 Replies to "An even-better CL ad: West Seattle bomb shelter for rent"

  • JenV March 28, 2008 (3:43 pm)

    That is too awesome for words.

  • JoB March 28, 2008 (3:47 pm)

    LOL.. i love it!

  • herongrrrl March 28, 2008 (3:56 pm)

    Hey, how many of those are still out there? Maybe we’ve finally uncovered the solution to affordable housing in Seattle. Or, wait! We could turn them into condos!

  • Trick March 28, 2008 (4:04 pm)

    eeery, but what a great place to have a party!

    Great find Diane!

  • JenV March 28, 2008 (4:04 pm)

    AHAHAHA herongrrrl!!! they could “micropermit” it! :D

  • Alki March 28, 2008 (4:31 pm)

    I wonder who built this house with such an intricate bomb shelter?! And I’m so curious where it is… must be a nice house. Maybe when the owner resells they can market is as a wine cellar. ;)

  • JoB March 28, 2008 (4:50 pm)

    TR.. love the addition of the video…

    thanks for coming out for a little sun in your own town commons….

  • PSPS March 28, 2008 (5:10 pm)

    Maybe they can squeeze a Trader Joe’s in there!

  • miws March 28, 2008 (6:48 pm)

    I, too, wonder how many are still out there. And, how many might be hidden behind a wall, after a basement remodel, and/or had any outside access overgrown with grass and such.

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    Mike

  • Karen March 28, 2008 (8:03 pm)

    Wow
    I wonder where this is. Growing up on Vashon, there was alway a story about something under a house south of the Lighthouse.

  • Pelicans March 29, 2008 (12:46 am)

    Just finished watching “On the Beach” on PBS tonight. It brought back memories of the time when everyone thought they needed one of these. Back then, in school it wasn’t terrorists that scared us, it was ‘the bomb.’ Was life really simpler then?

  • miws March 29, 2008 (4:12 am)

    Yes Pel, life was simpler back then.

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    All you had to do was cower under your school desk, and you’d be fully protected from any nasty ol’ N-Bomb!

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    Mike

  • JenV March 29, 2008 (8:08 am)

    “duck…and cover!”

  • WSB March 29, 2008 (9:06 am)

    Oh, I don’t think life was simpler. The Bomb did – and does – have the subtitle of The Instant End of Life (and/or of Life As We Know It). There are some great movies from the ’80s conveying that — “Testament” in particular, also “Miracle Mile” and of course the TV miniseries classic “The Day After,” plus “War Games.” During the Cold War years, there was the constant undercurrent that it could ALL go kaboom at any time if The Superpowers got just a little too mad at each other (even the Korean Air shootdown crisis in the early ’80s stirred those fears).

  • Erik March 29, 2008 (11:45 am)

    Don’t forget the classic ‘Dr Strangelove’ (or How I stopped Worrying and Started to Love the Bomb) (Dir Stanley Kubrik, 1964).

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