

It's a fallout shelter, designed to keep the radiation away for a few weeks, like in this cheery movie, which I'm sure comforted millions of Americans.Īnd inside we found a Kresge's worth of items: Kleenex, sanitary napkins, canned food, sleeping bags, magazines - which delighted Med, Charles, Chris, and I. It's really not a bomb shelter it would never withstand a blast directed at the Valley's aerospace industry. Chris and Colleen even made a relish tray and served Arnold Palmers.

Chris and Colleen Otcasek immediately agreed to let Off-Ramp into their time capsule, or time machine, and didn't flinch when I showed up with shop lights, a 100-foot extension cord, historian Charles Phoenix, and KPCC photographer Mae Ryan. I told them to keep it in case of imminent Zombie Apocalypse. You're more than welcome to visit. A few weeks ago, my friend Chris Murray wrote:Ĭhris and Colleen recently closed on a Charles DuBois Ranch House and the bomb shelter is an absolute time capsule: still stocked with old magazines, bunks, sleeping bags and medications.
