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Chris Grrr's avatar

Extraordinary and <a href="http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Shelter_\(The_Twilight_Zone\)" target="_blank">relevant</a>...

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bobbert's avatar

By '78, when the house was built, you could call Vegas lots of things, but small and ratty wouldn't really work.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

That's the one that comes to mind immediately. For those who haven't seen it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watc..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj2yuoC3PY">http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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BarackMyWorld's avatar

Rick and his gang need to discover this place in the final episode of "Walking Dead."

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

I love the smell of vodka in the morning, it smells like victory

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Lefty Mark's avatar

Hey, you're talking about the decade in which I graduated from high school, earned a college degree and got married.

So... point taken.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

I had the same thought. Love that movie.

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Monsieur_Grumpe's avatar

It has a dance floor so you can play It's The End Of The World in an endless loop while you get down.

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chascates's avatar

Isn't living in Las Vegas already living in the Apocalypse? A small city based upon excess consumption, greed, and exploitation? Oh, wail. That's Washington, DC.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Yes, I immediately pictured Christopher Walken wandering around this place.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Try <a href="http:\/\/staff.esuhsd.org\/danielle\/English%20Department%20LVillage\/RT\/Short%20Stories\/All%20Summer%20in%20a%20Day.pdf" target="_blank">All Summer in a Day</a> That one makes me cry.

For automated houses, hey, can't go wrong with <a href="http:\/\/www.d.umn.edu\/~csigler\/PDF%20files\/bradbury_veldt.pdf" target="_blank">The Veldt</a>

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Reading Bradbury always makes me feel better.

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jqheywood's avatar

I will never forget the sliced human cadaver on display in, if memory serves me, a staircase. Freaked me out for a month of Sundays. But the uboat & the train were way cool.

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Vienna Woods's avatar

Because of course those air conditioning units would be fully functional after a nuclear holocaust. Right.

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malsperanza's avatar

I'd sooner be fried in a blinding flash of megadeath than have to wake up every morning on the set of The Partridge Family.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

Titan Missile Silo or GTFO!

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