#conelrad

[rezqrecovery]

This may be really random, but did you ever used to upload music? Every time I see your little dog icon, I think of the word "Paternoster" and I can't quite remember why.

Yes!!! https://conelrad.co.uk

:3

[deepdreamnights]

New Songs, and some old faves...

Enjoy my IKEA effect by proxy.

Starting with some new ones:

Cut Me Deep-Slice Me Thick is a semi-translation and genre shifted cover of 厚切りでいて (Thickly Sliced), with completely rewritten lyrics so it works in English while enhancing the original subject matter.

If you know the nerdy ass reference, put it in the reblogs.

Normally I like to make songs either with my own lyrics, or completely alien ones, but sometimes the lyrics generator on Suno makes more than a decent meter and rhyme-scheme.

Remember when European acts would sing in English with the aid of high-school second language texts? It's kinda like that.

Sometimes it sings your instructions rather than executing them. Sometimes you take that and turn it into a whole song. This is one of those times.

A Sini-Star Techno Mix? In front of your Salad? It's more likely than you think.

Simulates what it felt like to be out of quarters sitting by the Sini-Star machine waiting for your mom to be done at JC Penny.

Parasaurolophus is called that because I sampled a reconstructed Parasaurolophus call for it. The video has undead dinosaurs.

Dinowave (Let's Dance to), also got a music video.

And so did a 1950s ConelRad Civil Defense Brochure.

SoundCloud - Suno - Youtube

[therobotmonster]

Take an Active Interest in Civil Defense!

Everything you need to know about surviving the nuclear apocalypse, in a catchy dance tune.

My music video for "Are You Prepared", music by the DeepDreamNights Robot Band, lyrics by myself and the Office of Civil Defense.

Video made possible by a generous existence of archive.org, and viewers not unlike you.

[stone-cold-groove]

U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration’s CONELRAD brochure - 1957.

[theearlywarning]

Historic Finds: CONELRAD Marked Motorola Radio c. 1961, Civil Defense Warden Patch

Today I went to Dallas with some very close fiends of mine and came across a curiosity shop. Man oh man have I got some unexpected treasures to share.

I normally rummage through antique shops in search of Cuban Missile Crisis-to-Cold War Civil Defense items like this, but I never thought to look in a novelty shop. I am so very jazzed. I’ve been searching all over for treasures like the ones I got today.

Let’s start with the first one. My friends helped sniff this thing out.

This Motorola B2G solid state radio is characteristic of the late 1950s to early 60s. It even looks to be made of the then-popular Bakelite if I’m not mistaken.It has a functioning AM band while the FM band doesn’t seem to work.

What’s in a radio that has so much to do with Civil Defense you might ask? Take a closer look at the dial:

Note the encircled triangle icons on the 640 and 1240 kilocycle areas. These are standard issue CONELRAD markings that showed the listener where to tune the radio for emergency info. Many radios through the 50s-60s came fitted with these distinctive marks.

What’s even more special about this radio is when this particular model was issued. Upon further research, was made in 1961, just a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis. That, to me, makes this find a memorable one.

Next of course, the patch:

This is an authentic Civil Defense Warden patch, made to be worn as an armband. CD wardens were subdivided into specialized units back then, each with their own unique branded patch to mark their area of expertise.

This is the patch for the Air Raid Wardens. It was the first thing I saw when I opened a military badge drawer in the curiosity shop. I can’t even begin to describe how floored and excited I was when I found it at the top of the stack.

These two items now sit happily in my budding collection. While there’s still so much out there left to discover, these are incredible finds I’ll be proud of for a very long time.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

The Road to Survival. Your Family Survival Plan, Office of Civil Defense, Center Theatre Bldg, Norfolk, Virginia Brochure, ca. 1950s

[m2o]

looking for blogs to follow

rb or like if you post:

Vintage/synthwave/neon aesthetics

Hospital / medcore / menhera

JJBA

Horror media

Stuffed animals ( No ddlg / kink )

Red or orange aesthetics

Nature

Anything about the cold war or civil defense / conelrad

Pirate radio stations or Sirens

Aliens / Space themed stuff

Comedy posts

If you aren't a terf

Original art

Aggretsuko

Obscure media

Oingo Boingo

Don't Starve or really any popular steam game

[madman-of-amargosa]

The music playing on CONELRAD at the time of Lola G’s abduction was amusingly appropriate.  ;-)