I remember as a young child in the 50's hiding under my school desk...

[Diamond_Dog]

31. Does anyone remember the old b&w films they would show us in school

about what to do in case of a nuclear attack? Proceed calmly to the nearest Civil Defense shelter, which in our case was the local fire station. They used to put those signs on buildings that were designated as Civil Defense shelters.

Yeah, like we would calmly walk single file down the street and file into a fire station instead of running full bore and screaming in panic.

Those films used to scare me. Always narrated by a severe sounding male voice. I didn’t really understand fully at the age of 5 what it was all about but it seemed scary.