First (and probably last) in my series called "1950's Media or Fallout Quest Description?"

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             In order to simulate the bomb's effect on a typical American city, the networks visited "Survival City," a cluster of typically furnished 1950's American homes constructed for the broadcast just a short distance down “Doomsday Drive” from Ground Zero...

...During the days leading up to the blast, the networks feature a number of news reports from the fateful city. TV reporters introduced viewers to the Darling family, a suburban middle-class family like many others depicted on television, except that this was a family of fashion-store mannequins. Kit Finne, food editor of Home, NBC's midday information program directed mainly at housewives, took viewers on a tour of the Darlings' ranch-style house. She conducted mock interviews with the mute family, looked into their kitchen cupboards, and speculated on the blast's probable effects on household items like baby food, dishwashers, and children's clothing.

-Description of TV coverage of the first televised atomic bomb detonation in 1952, pp 94-96, Hollywood TV by Christopher Anderson

(Construction company ad makes reference to Survival City and Doomsday Drive.)

Follow with me here: This sort of crazy 1950s media is a big reason why I love the Fallout series. The design of the Fallout games is absurd and eerie because the era it's referencing is EQUALLY if not MORE absurd and eerie. 

Can you imagine a talk-show host interviewing a 1950's mannequin family about their impending melty doom at the hands of an atomic bomb?

MESSED UP.