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How to celebrate a nuclear bomb
WITH A SWEET ASS CAKE, OF COURSE.
Studying for my History of Decorative Arts final I remembered this slide from one of the lectures. The caption according to LIFE’s Terribly Beauty : Atomic Bomb Test slide show -
U.S. Navy Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy, his wife, and Rear Admiral Frank J. Lowry cut a cake made in the shape of a mushroom cloud at a reception for Operation Crossroads, November 6, 1946.
More from LIFE’s online slide show:
a haunting house lit up from atomic glare test dummies dressed in 50′s housewife garb waiting for the blast.