The renowned architect Wallace Neff built a bubble-shaped underground shelter for his renowned “Bubble House” in Pasadena, where one post-Cold War owner would retreat for primal-scream therapy and guitar jam sessions. Jones, a stalwart believer in civil defense programs, was completely sincere when he said, “If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody’s going to make it.” Micciche, L.A.’s civil defense director, “is the only means of survival in the event of nuclear attack.” As late as 1982, President Reagan’s deputy undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, Thomas K. “The home fallout shelter,” opined Joseph J. From the end of sizzling World War II through the Cuban Missile Crisis and until almost the defrosting of the Cold War, federal and local governments, along with any number of doomsday entrepreneurs, promoted the bomb/fallout shelters as something no family should be without. As a Los Angeles musician of note once noted, “no one here gets out alive,” or at least unscathed.Īnyhoo, matters seemed simultaneously scarier and more chipper in the ’50s and ’60s when it came to nuclear survivability-think. Gordon Freireich is a former editor of the York Sunday News.Today, as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists sets the hands of its doomsday clock to an ominous 100 seconds to a nuclear midnight, maybe those hidey-holes are starting to look pretty good, although truth to tell, they were probably a bit more performative Cold War theatrics than actual protection. The answer to the question, “Whatever happened to Civil Defense fallout shelters?” Maybe nothing. Mike adds, “I know of no formal program to clean out the old equipment.” In another instance, “very old and moldy, rotted cots and blankets (were found), nothing worth saving.” “During a school renovation, they were cleaning out the supplies and they gave me a Geiger counter,” he said. Mike Shanabrook reports other caches of supplies turning up when some old buildings are renovated. In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Chris recalls the business received a letter saying the supplies would be picked up. and another sign above the interior basement entrance to the shelter.Ĭhris Sallade, a fourth-generation member of the business, provided a tour of the sturdy basement shelter and its supplies – still in place after six decades. There are 17½-gallon-barrels of water, boxes of crackers, and a box of emergency medical supplies still in place. There is a weathered Civil Defense Shelter sign on the older building at 124 W. ![]() One such place is the basement of the original Chas. More: She's working to plant 200 trees along the Susquehanna Trail to honor veterans A time capsule I do not know of any formal program to clean out” those supplies. Mike Shanabrook, a York City office of emergency planning specialist, said, “I know some facilities still have Civil Defense supplies. So where have all the CD fallout shelters gone?
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