Bunker Holds a Mountain of Movies:
A Cold War emergency bunker nestled in the side of a mountain will soon house one of the largest movie and music collections in the world.The Federal Reserve’s hidden facility in Mount Pony, near Culpeper, Virginia, was decommissioned by the government in the 1990s. But next year, it will be resurrected as the Library of Congress’ new National Audiovisual Conservation Center.
The building’s solid underground structure, complete with vaults, converts easily to media storage, said Gregory Lukow, chief of the motion picture, broadcasting and recorded sound division of the Library of Congress. And the facility has a unique history, to put it mildly.
The facility’s unique history:
“It was built into a mountainside facing away from Washington, and it was a place where approximately $3 billion in coin and currency was stored for re-priming the American economy in case of a nuclear holocaust,” Lukow said. And it was “a place where members of the Federal Reserve Bank and commission could flee in case of a nuclear attack.”
“Mr. President, we cannot allow a mineshaft gap!”
Seriously, who wants or needs paper fiat money after a nuclear attack?