But if an atomic bomb does explode in the city, experts advise against taking cover in a building with a fallout shelter sign. We were a year away from Russian nuclear missiles being discovered in Cuba, a discovery which would bring the Soviets and the United States to the brink of nuclear war.This summer, New York City officials released a public service announcement about what people should do in case of nuclear Armageddon. Note there is wood on the ceiling of the basement, not a great protection from a firestorm.īut it is the summer of 1961 and the Cold War was raging. Looking back, it seems silly to think we thought we could survive nuclear Armageddon with a few cement blocks. Very sixties furniture, provisions, food and water and a bible bring all the comforts of home to your end-of-the-world experience. We have a family on hand to show us what life in your own basement fallout shelter would be like. The demonstration shelter is listed as a Beachwood home.
The second part of the clip is a family shelter demonstration. The card lists this as a demonstration shelter in a store. Workers are constructing a shelter using cement blocks.
Our archives listed two fallout shelter clips, both from 1961. Some homeowners of the 1950s and 1960s built their own fallout shelters as a way to survive to perceived imminent dreaded communist radioactive bomb attacks.
Yes, even decades after the Cold War, there are older public buildings where they hang. Three yellow triangles inside a black circle on the sign marked public places you could head to in case of an atomic bomb blast. If you are of a certain age, you’ll remember those yellow and black fallout shelter signs. Build your own fallout shelter in Cleveland? Better dead than red.
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