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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWho remembers seeing these yellow signs
on buildings around town?
I used to walk home from school past a fire station that had one.
rsdsharp
(9,237 posts)It was still stocked with survival candies and crackers from 1962. This was in 1975-76.
Aristus
(66,530 posts)All of them had fallout shelters.
Lochloosa
(16,084 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(116,003 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)I lived near Wright Patterson AFB and we had a SAC bomber group there. I thought if I saw them all taking off at once it was over.
MarvinGardens
(779 posts)The first high school I attended had one. I remember when I was younger, asking grownups what they were for, and no one would give me a straight answer.
LunaSea
(2,895 posts)LAS14
(13,792 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)bluestarone
(17,128 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Our class dutifully trooped down the stairs to the school basement and crowded into the fallout shelter. It seemed very dreary, but in those pre-Pentagon Papers days, grade schoolers were indoctrinated to believe that the grown-ups and the government would look out for us, and we'd be okay.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's funny, I never really noticed that they had even gone away.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)NNadir
(33,587 posts)...was that poster that showed up in the late sixties:
Instructions for preparing for nuclear attack:
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akraven
(1,975 posts)They were everywhere.
Leith
(7,816 posts)We figured that Flint, MI would be a secondary target because of all the car factories (well, nobody but the state government is interested in destroying the city any more). The factories (while they still existed) were kept on war ready status after WWII so that they could be converted to manufacturing tanks in a hurry.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Bomarc II missiles, nuclear tipped anti-aircraft missiles each about half the yield of the Hiroshima bomb. At the far end of their range, they could make it to the Canadian border, other wise they would be going off within Minnesota.
Only thing between was an empty field and the trees around the missile base.
And yes, I believe the school was a fallout shelter.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,501 posts)Not many buildings in small country towns qualified for the job.
I also recall the phobia during the 50s/60s red scare that permeated rich folks lives due to some pretty slick advertising for home fallout shelters. Some construction companies made out like bandits. Even some farmers dug the damn things near their homes.
A lot of folks also participated in Civil Defense groups back then, too.
We're showing our age........ .........