Anyone remember... (house, actor, street, kids)

[NYmasters]

any one remember this? because this is a eerie siren

[AksarbeN]

Every Saturday at noon they would test them in my little hometown. We used them for civil defense, tornado warnings, and calling the volunteer firemen to run to the firehouse for an emergency call.

Spoiler

You never wanted your house to catch fire at noon on Saturday!

[nitram]

I've seen them all over Minnesota and they test run them monthly. Tornado sirens. Other areas still have them too.

[SATX56]

Absolutely! Loved the haunting and eerie sound it made as it would rise and fall.

[AksarbeN]

Duck & Cover

[NYmasters]

I remember hearing them in a gas station by a highway it was a bad thunderstorm and i heard the rise but tue fall got more my attention along it echoing its a really attention getting siren. Its creepy noise wise but loved it for its shape. I would love 1 but federal signal ended the thunderbolt series in 1990

[JustJoy]

Originally Posted by AksarbeN

Duck & Cover

when I first moved to Bocas was out and about with people and this loud siren went off - thought it was an air raid turns out just the siren for curfew (kids under 18 had to be off the streets). I felt like an idiot

[Jezer]

A few people over here would remember them from WWII.

[NYmasters]

Originally Posted by Jezer

A few people over here would remember them from WWII.

This siren was made in 1952 post world war ii entering the cold war when Russia ( former USSR) was our former enemy and we entered a nuclear era all of us were afraid getting nuked by them.

[CowanStern]

The town I grew up in, the siren was activated every day at noon, just to tell people it was noon. If it wasn't noon, it was used to call the volunteer firemen to a fire. There were also two factories, that blew whistles at the ends of the day shift at 4 oclock and 5 oclock, which could be heard all over town. It was nice to have those markers every day, kids played outdoors in those days, and knew when to go home for supper. At night, they had to go home when the street lights came on.