Ken and Carol Zwick bought the house, but when they saw the big metal door in their new garden, they didn’t ask questions. There was a shelter that came with the house and they didn’t think they would need it. The former owner built it in 1960, the year President Kennedy was elected, a time when people in America were still living in fear of a nuclear war.
Although they knew there was a shelter there and the door was so big that it was impossible to miss, they assumed there was nothing in the shelter, so they didn’t open it for 10 years.
Eventually, the couple decided to satisfy their curiosity: they opened the door and came across a huge staircase that led to a long room.
The bunker was built by the former owner of the house in 1960. At that time, the USA and the USSR were living under the constant threat of a nuclear bombing, so the shelter came as a rescue. But it wasn’t empty, there were a lot of things in it, according to Perfect Media.
In it, the two found supplies that would have allowed a family to survive for at least two weeks: there were clothes, lamps, utensils, and even batteries. They even found very old candies that had not been made for a long time. The Zwick family, after recovering from the shock of the discovery, and its joy, decided to donate the old objects found to the Neenah History Society.
Here is what Jane Lang, director of the Neenah History Society, said: “It gave us the opportunity to feel in real-time what it was like to live in 1960. It was as if we were all in the same room and, from once, he has to go down to the shelter ”.
