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Old 07-20-2020, 10:22 PM   #24
Synchro909
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Default Re: Anyone Ever Built or Even Seen, An Original type Greasing Pit?

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Originally Posted by burner31 View Post
Used to play in them all the time as kid, but that was back in the 50s, then the cuban missile crisis hit and some of those pits were expanded and turned into bomb shelters, and those were really fun to play in.
Does anybody else see the funny side of this one. The service pit is converted to a bomb shelter, then they park the old bomb on top of it!
They used to be quite common in country areas here.
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