So, you thought the Manhattan Crazy-Cozies were bizarre?
You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
Over at his wonderful Light On Dark Water blog, Maclin Horton has just pointed me to the hands-down winner of my own personal little “Most Peculiar Living Arrangements Imaginable” competition:
Orthodox. Faithful. Free.
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During the late 1950’s and early 1960’s when the Cold War was escalating, the U.S. government built hundreds of Atlas-F missile silos (each for 18 million in 1961, with the rising cost of construction today one could barely fund the excavation.) to prepare the country for an attack that never came. Today, most of these silos lie abandoned and filled with water, monuments to a bygone era of American historyand left to waste. But now, thanks to two entrepreneurial cousins, Bruce Francisco and Gregory Gibbons, one of these silos located in beautiful Adirondack State Park near Lake Placid is finding new life as a luxury home safe haven getaway complex accessible by plane or car.
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!
I’m tempted to send away for the Silohome DVD and Information Package, but I can’t honestly say I’m in the market for a $2.3M nuclear missile silo, no matter how luxurious the accommodations.