Abandoned Underground Fallout Shelter - Exploring The Girard Mine

We're back once again in Tombstone, AZ in the famous Girard Mine. In this installment, we explore a maze of drifts, stopes, and sub-levels hidden beneath the streets of the town. One of the more significant features of the Girard Mine is a partially intact fallout shelter supply cache from the Cold War era. Boxes and boxes of 'survival biscuits' fill a dead-end tunnel several hundred feet below the surface. I guess we wouldn't go hungry if we were trapped underground...
The mines below Tombstone are well-preserved, so the fallout shelter was not the only interesting feature in this exploration. I hope you enjoy!
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  • @DFDuck55
    @DFDuck552 жыл бұрын

    Malted milk was first made in the mid 1800s by British food manufacturers brothers James and William Horlick. It was sold as a nutritional supplement marketed for “infants and invalids.” It is made from malted barley, wheat flour, and evaporated whole milk. It was often sold in "slabs" rather than the handy powder we have now. Malted Milk was used to make Biscuits and Malted Milk Balls. "Sliced" meant the slabs were cut into smaller easier to handle chunks. Cool finding the fallout shelter stuff in there. During the Cold War they would make us watch films on that to do "when" (not if) Russia dropped Atomic Bombs on us. You can find one of them on youtube if you search for "Duck and Cover". They made us do monthly drills where we would make sure all the windows were closed, pull the thick classroom curtains closed, then hide under our desks. We did that till about the middle of 1969.

  • @zerofox7347
    @zerofox73472 жыл бұрын

    This is the type of gold mine from a move or a theme park. Very cool.

  • @samsam66698
    @samsam666982 жыл бұрын

    That Anvil was a stamp die. For a stamp Mill. You have the shoe which is on the boss which is connected to the stem then you have the tablet so this s cam can rotate. The die sits in the motor box. So that's part of the stamp Mill pretty cool. I have a couple of them and I never ever thought of using them for an anvil

  • @terrystewart2070
    @terrystewart20702 жыл бұрын

    This mine is freakin' awesome! I am more amazed with each video in the series.....THANK YOU!

  • @jeremytuggle6424
    @jeremytuggle64248 ай бұрын

    Awesome, episode!

  • @janblake9468
    @janblake94682 жыл бұрын

    Our 1960's college buildlng had a CD shelter in the basement. Being poor students, we raided it for the "biscuits" (crackers). With jam on top they weren't bad. In the 1980's we found a shelter in an abandoned Mojave Desert mine. A water drum is my office trash can, After they were empty, BTW, the drums became toilets using large plastic storage bags and toilet seats. I still have a full carton of canned biscuits. The mine entrance was closed in 2003.

  • @SueGirling68
    @SueGirling682 жыл бұрын

    Hi Graham, amazing all of those emergency rations are still there, a pretty cool and unique find. This mine is definitely the one that keeps on giving though with all of the artefacts and ore carts etc. Thank you for sharing, much love. xx 💞

  • @MinesoftheWest

    @MinesoftheWest

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching as always!

  • @mikewinings4120
    @mikewinings41202 жыл бұрын

    An Oreo car still working in a abandoned mine is worth way more to me than pooped in old jeans, love the video!

  • @kevinbrennan2004
    @kevinbrennan20045 ай бұрын

    Very cool😀

  • @johndemeen5575
    @johndemeen55752 жыл бұрын

    I remember, those days in 1963. It was terrible, frightening. Was only 11 years old , but I remember. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.

  • @mikewinings4120
    @mikewinings41202 жыл бұрын

    I've the jeans comment, someone will pay a million dollars for pants,fml,but I enjoy seeing mining artifacts,priceless,love ya guys!

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman66942 жыл бұрын

    Good morning from Southeast South Dakota

  • @jimmytonga95
    @jimmytonga952 жыл бұрын

    dude i could totally see one of those water drums being in a pawn stars episode lol

  • @MinesoftheWest

    @MinesoftheWest

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I could see that, thanks for watching!

  • @fredvanweerd5197
    @fredvanweerd51972 жыл бұрын

    Forgot, pasty malted milk, is a barley flower, you can make sliced bread or malted cake, if I'm wrong I'll be corrected shortly.

  • @MinesoftheWest

    @MinesoftheWest

    2 жыл бұрын

    Gotcha, thanks!

  • @bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif5287
    @bebeandjohnnotsonomadiclif52872 жыл бұрын

    My research shows me that the work pants you found are worth about $175. to $5,000, maybe more....for real....dollars. The work pants were made about 1905-1906. being cut off matters not.

  • @johnnyserene3662
    @johnnyserene36622 жыл бұрын

    Super neat! Those rations will soon come in handy with let’s go Brandon driving this bus.

  • @LawnMower-hu9pw
    @LawnMower-hu9pw2 жыл бұрын

    I have seen this key before you are not the only one to document it but that's okay hey it's still cool right

  • @danjohnson8170
    @danjohnson81702 жыл бұрын

    Looks like someone already took the morphine out of the CD stores!

  • @nefariumxxx
    @nefariumxxx2 жыл бұрын

    I saw someone taste those crackers in one of the other mine explore videos and they were still edible if you are hungry enough - but stale, of course.

  • @MinesoftheWest

    @MinesoftheWest

    2 жыл бұрын

    I’m not surprised! This kind of stuff lasts a while! Thank you for watching my friend!

  • @cyberleaderandy1

    @cyberleaderandy1

    2 жыл бұрын

    Theres a guy eats that sort of food on you tube from WW2 as well as Vietnam and Korean wars. He'd probably try all that stuff 🤔

  • @nefariumxxx

    @nefariumxxx

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@cyberleaderandy1 yes, he even went older than that with some civil war hard tack crackers or something. He's a funny guy. I hope he doesn't get botulism someday. Said he got ecoli from some modern Ukrainian rations before. Sketchy to mess around with some of the rusty cans, etc. His channel is Steve1989MREInfo.

  • @sanddabz5635
    @sanddabz56352 ай бұрын

    How would they vent the exhaust/smoke/fumes from the blacksmith shop, being that it's underground?

  • @fredvanweerd5197
    @fredvanweerd51972 жыл бұрын

    Should have checked out the boxes with the crescent moon symbol, those were C rations, would be interesting to see what meals were stored there, way things are going right now they may be handy now. 😉😉🤔

  • @nefariumxxx

    @nefariumxxx

    2 жыл бұрын

    The moon looked familiar to me too. Look up online "humanitarian daily rations" box/cases. I think they are still made by Sopakco. Probably shipping a lot of them over to Ukraine right about now.

  • @deepwoodguy2

    @deepwoodguy2

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nefariumxxx 💙💛💙💛👍👍

  • @JoeyBaby47
    @JoeyBaby472 жыл бұрын

    Your flood lights were a bit much. You could also use some more "throw" to see further out.

  • @dubbz2638
    @dubbz26382 жыл бұрын

    *Steve1989 has joined the chat*

  • @reckerrit3103
    @reckerrit31032 жыл бұрын

    Shit is probably still good to eat LOL

  • @dr.ryttmastarecctm6595
    @dr.ryttmastarecctm65952 жыл бұрын

    Mark that place on the map. With the way Putin is going, a fallout shelter may be needed! The only trouble is, you'd need to stay below ground through the "Nuclear Winter".

  • @nefariumxxx

    @nefariumxxx

    2 жыл бұрын

    He won't do nukes, because he knows all too well that we have 14 Ohio class subs lurking under the waves. Each one carries 24 trident missiles ready to launch within 90 feet of the surface of water. Each missile carries 8 independent MIRV warheads. He does not want to see Moscow and St. Petersburg reduced to ashes. At this point, his military leaders would probably refuse to launch anyway. They don't trust him anymore. Sometimes people forget about our submarines but they are always vigilant - watching and waiting.

  • @slimwantedman6694
    @slimwantedman66942 жыл бұрын

    Cheese

  • @bernardgonzales4195
    @bernardgonzales41952 жыл бұрын

    Good thing Frank and Sharon weren't there or it would all be gone.

  • @SydneyRadio2UE

    @SydneyRadio2UE

    2 жыл бұрын

    I predict he eventually gets caught plundering artifacts from mines, because in Canada they have laws to protect these historic sites, just like we do in the United States. It's a federal offense in the United States to remove artifacts from mines on public land.