This is actually the center of an underground bunker, because of course in the '60s you would want your emergency operations center to also double as a bomb-proof fallout shelter for your government to continue to be able to operate out of. It was abandoned in the '90s, but is still full of Cold War era files and supplies for urban explorers to find. More info:
https://www.nola.com/news/article_da0a686f-d045-55c0-b72d-7a7462b61fc2.html
just imagine exploring that place for the summer
If you want to walk around New Orleans hip deep in fluids in 102 degree weather, might I recommend Bourbon Street?
Can I get similar diseases in both places?
only one of them has incurable diseases
That was my first thought, absolute hell of mosquitos, humidity, and heat
I can smell the aspastus and black mold now!
r/boneappletea
ass pasta
Ass pastus, knees beforus
Road trip with the boys
Except that all of New Orleans is below sea level. Underground anything is really hard.
As evidenced by all the water in the second picture.
Victim of hadn't-scrolled-itis. Oh well.
And what you don't see in the water
Gators.
Gators with laser beams attached to their heads
Fricken, no just lazer beams, but fricken lazer beams.
How about ill tempered seas bass
Thats a start.
Except the French Quarter. Even the French weren't ~~finish~~ foolish enough to build below sea level.
Edit: fixed an autocorrect typo
finish?
Lol
Patently false. Plenty of New Orleans is above sea level. I know folks with below ground basements in Nola
Is this the one on West End, right before you hit Robert E Lee?
And water. Also full of water
What are all the squares on the ceiling and walls for?
I’m guessing they are sound dampening material so it wouldn’t echo so bad in these completely concrete rooms.
No idea- maybe acoustic tiles, to break up echoes?
This is awesome. The throwback shot is making me think of Dr. Strangelove.
“Gentleman! You can’t fight in here! This is the war room!”
Peace on Earth
Purity of essence
"You're gonna let that commie bastard in here?! He'll see everything, he'll see the big board!"
that is precisely the idea
Or Fail Safe
I wanna know who thought it would be a good idea to build underground in New Orleans, a place where supposedly even the dead can't even be buried.
Maybe someone who knew that building atomic-bomb proof overground shelters is basically impossible?
The windowless AT&T building in NYC would like a word.
AT&T building in NYC
Holy shit you were not kidding
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/16/the-nsas-spy-hub-in-new-york-hidden-in-plain-sight/
The budget of the City of New Orleans would like a word.
The poster child for /r/evilbuildings
Tyrell would like a word, Elliot.
Maybe the same guy who thought New York City's emergency management center should be in the World Trade Center?
I was thinking the same thing.
The government.
Dope! Dharma Initiative vibes
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I just finished re-watching Lost last night lol great timing
BUT HE’LL SEE THE BIG BOARD!
Yep. That bottom one looks like modern New Orleans… I can smell it now.
Did they build if from scratch? Why is it round?
I think the overall structures are underground domes for weight distribution. Here is a sketch from the plans.
Then they decided to cut it up into rings with a circular room at the center, which is what the photos are showing Not sure if this is better than cutting the circle up with 90° angles inside.
Thanks
I love how it’s underwater.
It was abandoned after the cold war because keeping the water out in New Orleans is a constant struggle.
I’m surprised it’s not more under water. You don’t have to dig very deep to find water in NOLA.
A lot of abandoned stuff in NOLA is underwater because of Katrina.
Not the case, I’m a New Orleans native- Katrina didn’t fill the city up with water and then the water decided to stick around for 16 years- that’s not how hurricanes work.
TIL. I do know that several buildings have been abandoned since Katrina hit. I assumed that all the standing water I saw had just been left there since then. I guess it was water that would have gotten in regardless, but had no one to pump it out.
Not really, it’s just because New Orleans as a whole is below sea level but surrounded by water.
Water blocks gamma rays from the fallout.
Hulk splash?
Water is better for blocking out neutron radiation. Anything with a high density of hydrogen really.
Woah this is pretty cool
*Six Flags New Orleans likes this*
Why
Bcuz
Anyone know why it was abandoned?
They mention it was sealed off in the early '90s– I think it was probably because of the end of the Cold War. Not worth it for a city government to pay to maintain a giant underground bunker when there was no more imminent threat of nuclear war.
Underground building in New Orleans? So did they just have pumps running 24/7?
Not during bath hours
Seeing this, you'd think we lost the Cold War.
Totally reminds me of the game portal. I think r/Portal may enjoy this image as well
Feel free to x-post
Lookin' like part of a Fallout 4 vault
I’m getting strong Titanic vibes here. I love that the ceiling and lights haven’t changed.
Wow.
Looks like a spot in a Cold War zombies map
Of all the cool images posted here, this one really drives home the ravages of time.
Thank God no Natural Catastrophe happens in New Orleans, you know: far from the sea, from tectonic plaques,from reptiles that can rip your arm apart...
looks like a place i would see in my nightmares
Circa survive
I want that big round light fixture
New Orleans is Sinking man, and I don't wanna swim.
New Orleans is literally a bowl 😅😂
I wonder if this is the bunker you are supposed to be finding in the walking dead saints and sinners. At first I was like there is no way there is a bunker here in real life lol
Ceiling lights look original. You can flip century old lighting fixtures for a nice profit.
Getting DHARMA INITIATIVE vibes here
1962 to 2017? This before and after picture looks exactly what happens to America during the last 60 years. Lol
In their defense I’m sure there are a ton of fallout shelter bunkers that have been sealed up and abandoned across the world since the end of the Cold War. New Orleans just has the added effect of being at sea level.
A lot of bunkers have been repurposed. There are several in Florida that have been renovated, but still used as EOCs, too.
They should have a new one, on stilts. Or at least a couple of levels of parking garage under it.
Hey, at least you can play soccer in it now... You know, water socker.
As my wife corrected me watching the olympics, it’s water polo.
But where are the horses?!
Drowned, at the bottom of the water.
That’s what I said. It didn’t prevent her from telling everyone she knows.
Seahorses, duh!
I thought this was Fallout
Wastes tax payer dollars. Waster tax payer dollars never changes.
It was the 60s. We were putting straight carcinogens into the air in the name of civil defense.
Can't judge those times by modern lenses.
Of course. I’m making a joke.
Ironic.
It looks like one of the sets from the horror movie "Mirrors" (2008).
Fallout 5
The second picture looks like it was take straight out of fallout new Vegas
Katrina wrecked it
Bit of a downgrade
Not a single left handed desk.
Oh dear it clearly wasn’t waterproof
It's New Orleans, nothing is waterproof!
Before the hurricane hit, I distinctly remember when I was much younger my father driving us through Louisiana at night and they were all these river boats that were illuminated docked on the water, while crossing over a bridge, it was so beautiful, this was back in 2003 so I’m sure it’s not there anymore. I think this was in Lafayette.
More likely Baton Rouge, as it's on the river and has riverboat casinos.
You’re probably right, I was so young and it was so dark I just know that we were in Louisiana driving through. Thank you for correcting me on that, glad you know what I was talking about.
Obviously wasn't waterproof.
! Global warming at work !
Did we win the war?
I’m guessing Katrina won?
Well it don’t look very civil now
Is that a Rad Roach?
Reminds me of the movie, Mirrors
B
Your tax dollars at work.
Dr. Evil’s subterranean lair
A lot of context people are missing here. This bunker is below ground on top of a former shipping canal that ran lake to CBD in New Orleans.
The best kind of irony
Looks like the emergency won.
Top one has Dr Strangelove vibes the bottom one is Fallout.
Bottom: exploring a failed vault.
Top: finding old footage of the vault when it was operational.
I was thinking more of Fail Safe, Dr Strangelove makes sense as well since they’re practically the same films.
Looool
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You’re being downvoted because it sounds like sarcasm.
Take a lookey loo at his account. That’s what he wants
What was it?
This.
Obviously it’s not sarcasm because he didn’t drop an /s.
They deleted it. Wish someone would paraphrase what the original comment was at least. Sometimes I feel cowards get away too easily from having being exposed and having to account for their words. Although this might not be the case here - I don’t know. No explanations was given for the deletion.
People not being held accountable for what they say on the internet?! That’s unheard of!
And to think that there are armies of us internet avengers out there trying to make sure these deeds do not go unpunished.
But egads!
What if we’re nothing but rampant vigilantes, no better than those we seek to foil?
Who watches the clockmakers or whatever.
Blizzard furiously taking notes
No it’s because I think it sounds stupid
Seriously, if you haven't already, check out this person's comments, they are completely BONKERS
They are a DVFarmer
Excuse my ignorance, but why is this a thing
The same reason people cut themselves, date obvious assholes, do dangerous drugs, and a thousand other displays of personal destructi....they are experiencing self-loathing.
That tracks. I hope they get better, it heart breaking to see someone hate themselves