21 August 2021 - MASSIVE BUNKER BUILT UNDERGROUND IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

 

MASSIVE BUNKER BUILT 

UNDERGROUND IN

 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

 

G'day folks,

The Cold War era in the United States is like no other time in history. People were fearful every day that this might be it. This may be the day that the United States and the Soviet Union finally go to war. 

The outcome of this happening would have been the almost certain and total annihilation of both countries, and possibly most of the world. This threat was a daily reality for hundreds of millions of people living in both countries.

 Children in the United States would practice bomb drills in school out of fear that they may be attacked at some point. Although I’m not really sure what hiding under a desk is going to do when nuclear bombs are being detonated. Well this reality was such a big concern for some that they decided to take matters into their own hands. The wealthier in America had the luxury of building a highly technologically sophisticated, multi million dollar bunker that would actually provide shelter and security if The Cold War ever escalated to actually all out war. Well if you’re still in the market for a perfectly usable and functional underground bunker, the seller of this multi million dollar bunker may have something for you!

This is the property, located in Savannah, GA. As you can see, it is situated on a pretty big piece of land that looks to be far away from any major population centers.

 The bunker was built-in 1969 at the height of The Cold War, and is located 45 feet underground. The bunker has two different levels. The top level is entirely composed of apartments, while the other contains the common areas.

 

The bunker was actually originally built for military training purposes. It has since been repurposed into a luxury underground living space. These are the living quarters. At about 600 square feet, they’re quite spacious for being underground.

 Chris Salamone, co-owner of Bastion Holdings the company selling the bunker, said it “offers the ultimate safe haven for any family, business or government that wants the ultimate in security and comfort.”

 

This bunker has the ability to withstand a 20 kiloton nuclear blast, terrorist attacks and civil disturbances. I can’t imagine being down there, knowing the world was burning above you.

  The property also includes air intake systems and a nursing station. Whoever remodelled this place really did everything they could to bring this place up to date. The fact that this place has $100k invest into just the CCTV system shows you that they did not skimp on an inch of this place. Whoever does end up as the owner of this multi-million dollar bunker is gonna feel secure no matter what happens to the world outside.

 

Clancy's comment: I'd go crazy without windows. What about you? Looks like a guesthouse for secret agents.

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24 September 2020 - ABANDONED HOME RENOVATED THEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

ABANDONED HOME RENOVATED 

THEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

G'day folks,

Well, here is another abandoned property with a different story.

 This 170-year-old historic house in Georgia was saved from demolition by a couple who decided to renovate it and make it their dream home. Just four months into renovations, it was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. These photos show the house in its long-abandoned state, during renovation, and after the devastating fire. The loss has been insurmountable, and nothing of the house can be salvaged.

Clancy's comment: Having renovated many homes, including six of my own, I can imagine the anguish felt by the owners.

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27 May 2019 - Martin Luther King Jr.’s Family Home to Open to the Public

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Family

 Home to Open to the Public

G'day folks,

This famous property was recently purchased by the National Park Foundation.

 During the three years leading up to his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. lived with his family in a modest brick house in Atlanta’s Vine City neighborhood. His wife, Coretta Scott King, continued to live there until 2004, at which point it was used by the King family as an office, according to Shelia M. Poole and Ernie Suggs of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Now, the home is due to open to the public for the first time, following its acquisition by the National Park Foundation.

The foundation, which is the official charity of the National Park Service, announced last month that it had purchased the house from the estate of Coretta Scott King, subsequently transferring the property to the park service.

The four-bedroom house will be part of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Park (formerly a National Historic Site), which encompasses several buildings and sites in Atlanta, 

“With greater access to Dr. King’s life and legacy, we can learn more about this country’s past and how his work continues to echo through time,” Will Shafroth, president of the National Park Foundation, said in a statement.

This marks the second time in recent weeks that the foundation has acquired a property connected to King. In December of last year, it bought the two-story house where the civil rights icon was born, and where he lived for 12 years with his parents and grandparents. That home had been owned by the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Because the property was included among the buildings that made up what was then the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site, according to Mihir Zaveri of the New York Times, the park service had been able to offer tours in the house since 1984.

The King family home in Vine City, by contrast, was not accessible to the public, and it will open to tours for the first time, though it could take more than a year to get the house ready for visitors, Will Shafroth, CEO of the National Park Foundation, tells Poole and Suggs.

King, his wife and four children moved into the house in 1965, and purchased the property one year later. It was at this site, located at 234 Sunset Avenue, that mourners flocked to comfort King’s family in the wake of his assassination in 1968. Robert Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and Richard Nixon were among those who stopped by to pay their respects, according to the Washington Post’s Michael E. Ruane. Jackie Kennedy, whose own husband had been assassinated only a few years earlier, embraced Coretta Scott King in her bedroom, Rebecca Burns writes in Burial for a King.

Though King didn’t live in the house for long, his daughter Bernice King tells Poole and Suggs that their time there was like that of any other “normal family.” They played basketball in the backyard and ate meals together in the dining room. Sometimes, she would jump off the kitchen refrigerator, with her dad waiting to catch her below. The other recently acquired property is known as King’s “birth home”; but this site on Sunset Avenue, Bernice King says, was the family’s “life home.”

 

 

Clancy's comment: It looks like a charming house, but it's a sad story about the previous owner. By the way, the font I use for this post is called Georgia.

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