Basement Films World Headquarters - a rare view into our subterranean universe. from asha 200 Watch Video
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Description: I am standing in the subterranean bunker of the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque where I know I am safe.From 1925 -1976 this building was home to the Harwood Girls School. In 1961 New Mexico Governor Edwin Mechem had the basement of the Harwood Girls School reinforced with concrete and repurposed as a fallout shelter for himself and his family.It had only been 16 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south in Alamogordo.And, although the cement bunker was never used as