Comments on: Swiss bunkers http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/ rum, bloggery & the lash Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: archenemy blog » Notes from the underground http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-642 archenemy blog » Notes from the underground Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:38:38 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-642 [...] unfinished subway, abandoned in the 1920s. Man, that’s even weirder than Soviet sub bases and Swiss bunkers. Too many more architectural oddities and I’m going to have to make a new category. This [...] [...] unfinished subway, abandoned in the 1920s. Man, that’s even weirder than Soviet sub bases and Swiss bunkers. Too many more architectural oddities and I’m going to have to make a new category. This [...]

]]> By: archenemy blog » Affordable villains lair http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-631 archenemy blog » Affordable villains lair Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:56:00 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-631 [...] We’ve talked about Swiss bunkers, old Soviet sub bases and abandoned missle silos. Available in Washington state is a house for under $600K sitting over a four story bunker with secret passageways and 3 ton blast doors all built by a previous owner. It sucks living in an area with bedrock a few feet below ground level. This entry was written by jmd and posted on 8/11/2006 at 3:55 pm and is filed under general. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. [...] [...] We’ve talked about Swiss bunkers, old Soviet sub bases and abandoned missle silos. Available in Washington state is a house for under $600K sitting over a four story bunker with secret passageways and 3 ton blast doors all built by a previous owner. It sucks living in an area with bedrock a few feet below ground level. This entry was written by jmd and posted on 8/11/2006 at 3:55 pm and is filed under general. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. [...]

]]> By: archenemy blog » Blog Archive » No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-632 archenemy blog » Blog Archive » No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:20:29 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-632 [...] If you didn’t get your cold war military architecture fix from last week’s Swiss bunkers post, feast your eyes on this Soviet submarine base. [...] [...] If you didn’t get your cold war military architecture fix from last week’s Swiss bunkers post, feast your eyes on this Soviet submarine base. [...]

]]> By: TJIC http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-634 TJIC Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:58:20 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-634 <blockquote> What happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas </blockquote> Except for the herpes. Sometimes that comes home to visit. :-)

What happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas

Except for the herpes.

Sometimes that comes home to visit.

:-)

]]> By: Brian http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-633 Brian Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:48:04 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-633 <i>So any invader would grab the heavy industry, banking and most of the agriculture, while the swiss would control the ski resorts, alpine dairy industry, and the Ricola plant. Ahh, priorities!</i> Forcing the Soviets to rubble Zurich wastes your troops and trashes the good stuff to little end. It makes sense to pull back into the hills, preserving your strength and defending in a way that makes it difficult for the bad guys. Plus .. the war will end someday. Better to start the peace with intact infrastructure then spending time rebilding everything. So any invader would grab the heavy industry, banking and most of the agriculture, while the swiss would control the ski resorts, alpine dairy industry, and the Ricola plant. Ahh, priorities!

Forcing the Soviets to rubble Zurich wastes your troops and trashes the good stuff to little end.

It makes sense to pull back into the hills, preserving your strength and defending in a way that makes it difficult for the bad guys.

Plus .. the war will end someday. Better to start the peace with intact infrastructure then spending time rebilding everything.

]]> By: jmd http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-635 jmd Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:21:37 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-635 Well, Last weekend was a "What happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas" weekend. I will at no time write about it anywhere. :-) Well, Last weekend was a “What happened in Vegas, stays in Vegas” weekend. I will at no time write about it anywhere. :-)

]]> By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-636 dff Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:00:41 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-636 <blockquote>And plenty of good stories to tell.</blockquote> Isn't that what the damn blog's for? Photos of drunken expats and their hangers-on getting up to no good, and scathing essays full of evil insight on other cultures?

And plenty of good stories to tell.

Isn’t that what the damn blog’s for? Photos of drunken expats and their hangers-on getting up to no good, and scathing essays full of evil insight on other cultures?

]]> By: jmd http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-637 jmd Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:35:41 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-637 Well I'm stuck in a non-brutal heat wave here in a hotel with no AC. But plenty of cold beer to keep cool. And plenty of good stories to tell. Well I’m stuck in a non-brutal heat wave here in a hotel with no AC. But plenty of cold beer to keep cool. And plenty of good stories to tell.

]]> By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-638 dff Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:22:02 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-638 My detective skills have <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&q=Renaissance+Munich+Hotel&near=55+Mathias-Brueggen+Strasse+Koln+Germany&ie=UTF8&ll=50.975724,6.890831&spn=0.14289,0.322037&om=1" rel="nofollow">located you</a>. You're missing a brutal heat wave, you bastard. My detective skills have located you. You’re missing a brutal heat wave, you bastard.

]]> By: jmd http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-639 jmd Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:18:49 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-639 You would have to be a Swiss citizen to buy any property in Switzerland. Driving to various swiss ski resorts from Germany, you pass all sorts of millitary installations from bunkers to small airfeilds with hardened hangers. I always thought it a bit silly that the swiss strategy was to pull back out of the areas with any value- Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva etc. to defenses in the mountains. So any invader would grab the heavy industry, banking and most of the agriculture, while the swiss would control the ski resorts, alpine dairy industry, and the Ricola plant. Ahh, priorities! You would have to be a Swiss citizen to buy any property in Switzerland.
Driving to various swiss ski resorts from Germany, you pass all sorts of millitary installations from bunkers to small airfeilds with hardened hangers. I always thought it a bit silly that the swiss strategy was to pull back out of the areas with any value- Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva etc. to defenses in the mountains. So any invader would grab the heavy industry, banking and most of the agriculture, while the swiss would control the ski resorts, alpine dairy industry, and the Ricola plant. Ahh, priorities!

]]> By: dff http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-640 dff Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:41:08 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-640 I dunno, but if you've got 25 million sitting around, you can get yourself a <a href="http://blog.archenemy.org/archives/2004/11/15/when-i-win-the-lottery-part-1/" rel="nofollow">converted missile silo</a> in Nebraska. I dunno, but if you’ve got 25 million sitting around, you can get yourself a converted missile silo in Nebraska.

]]> By: chuck http://blog.archenemy.org/2006/07/17/swiss-bunkers/#comment-641 chuck Tue, 18 Jul 2006 02:36:10 +0000 http://blog.archenemy.org/?p=685#comment-641 Cool... I wonder if any of them are up for sale. Cool… I wonder if any of them are up for sale.

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