Remember “Blast from the Past“, that late-90s cold-war parody/rom-com that starred Brendan Fraser and Alicia Silverstone and told the story of a family that built a lavish underground bomb shelter beneath their LA home to ride out the apocalypse in? It was pretty terrible, but the weird thing about that movie is that it could have been based on a true story.
1978年,一个名叫杰里·b·亨德森(Jerry B. Henderson)的家伙在冷战时期的偏执中建造了这座“地下房子”,你在这里看到的这座房子是为了让杰里和他的家人等待世界末日的到来而建造的。现在,这所房子以170万美元(约合人民币434万元)的价格在市场上出售,其中包括一套两室的地下住宅、一套一室的地下客住公寓、一套两室两层的看管人住宅(如果你必须自己整理楼层,那为什么还要在这场大灾难中幸存下来呢),以及一间位于拉斯维加斯一英亩顶级“地上”房产下的四车位车库。
“They had it all down here,” says Winston King. He’s the head of of Kingly Properties, which is handling the sale of the house. “This vents through the tree behind it,” he explains upon opening up an artificial rock to reveal an underground outdoor grill. “I’ve been told when he built it, he had a million dollars of marble imported from Italy. It’s here on the fireplace and around the pool, now.”
Here’s a bit more history on this bomb shelter/living space from King:
Henderson made a lot of money in several companies, including Avon cosmetics, the Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and the now-defunct Monterey Peninsula Television. In 1964, he married his second wife, Mary, and formed Underground World Homes.
在1964年和1965年的纽约世界博览会上,他和他的新公司赞助了“为什么生活在地下”(Why Live Underground)展览。亨德森相信冷战不会像现在这样结束——大卫·哈塞尔霍夫(David Hasselhoff)的音乐会和米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫(Mikhail Gorbachev)推倒那堵墙——而是人类最后的残余蜷缩在地下碉堡里。
Henderson and his wife planned to hunker down in style. The home includes lavish wallpaper, a 360-degree mural, a putting green, lighted display cases and a large kitchen with built-in sound and a toaster built into the wall. The house even includes an underground yard that surrounds it on all four sides.
The home on Spencer Street is the second underground house Henderson had constructed for himself by Texas building contractors Kenneth and Jay Swayze. The first home was near Boulder, Colo.
Rather than building a shelter to duck into when the air raid sirens blew, the Hendersons lived underground full time. There is plenty of storage space and shelving so the couple could hole up for a year or more if they had to.
你觉得上面的"过去的爆炸"主题屋怎么样?它值170万美元吗?当你考虑到一群福音派的骗子在他们废弃的旧盐矿里以几十万美元的价格度过末日时,170万美元的数字在我看来并不是那么糟糕。请在下面的评论中告诉我们你的想法。
Sources | Photos:Abigail Bassettfor CNN Money, theLas Vegas Review-journal.
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