Arizona trip

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 13:48:54 2001

For the last 5 to 10 years you could _buy_ a silo from the Gov't as long as
you promised not to reactivate it :-) There is an article in Popular
Science about a couple that converted one to living space.

At a dinner I attended one person there claimed to have bought one (can you
say crazy but lucky Silicon Valley type that got out of the market in
time?) and has been renovating it for living/storage space. There were
several different types, the vertical Titan II types and the horizontal
Minuteman types. (He has a vertical one I believe) It had quite a bit of
equipment left behind in it that wasn't considered worth either destroying
or hauling out (much gear was carried in as pieces and assembled inside).
The most useful thing that he has salvaged was the Onan 50Kw power
generator that supplies power, the "coolest" thing is the "scram lift" that
gets you down to the bottom really quickly.

Now frankly he certainly had the means to pull this off but I give his tale
only about 40% credibility rating as there is something of the story
telling aspect to it. He offered a tour when it was done so I'll follow up
when I get his call to come visit ...

--Chuck

At 02:12 PM 4/12/2001 -0400, jeff wrote:
> I don't know if it was for Titan's, but I ran across a webpage a
> couple of years ago that showed a photographic tour of a missle silo that
> the photographer and his buddy had managed to gain access to. The silo
> had been under padlock and parts of it were flooded and/or caved in, but
> there were still parts to equipment and such down there. It was pretty
> interesting.
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