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309 Campbell Avenue . Roanoke
The boys and I have a fascination with fallout shelters...such an interesting period in our history. I couldn't find anything out about this one but I did find a video clip of another that is near this location showing emergency supplies being dropped off in 1963...you can view that short little clip HERE and you can read a little more about the shelters HERE
Excuse the slant..we were driving by and I quickly had to snap!
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The boys and I have a fascination with fallout shelters...such an interesting period in our history. I couldn't find anything out about this one but I did find a video clip of another that is near this location showing emergency supplies being dropped off in 1963...you can view that short little clip HERE and you can read a little more about the shelters HERE
Excuse the slant..we were driving by and I quickly had to snap!
Linking up with Signs, Signs when it goes live.
I still can find a few of these signs, I was a young kid when they are going up.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember the years, but I think in the late 50s and early 60s the schools held atomic bomb drills...everyone would climb under their desk and hide their heads. As if that would help! :) Those were scary times, though. I knew a couple of folks who built their own bomb shelters and filled them with food and supplies.
ReplyDeleteGosh, you bring back memories. I haven't seen one of those for years. I showed your sign to my husband and he says that whilst they had bomb shelters here in England (WW2), he doesn't recall ever seeing a fall out shelter. Interesting one to think about.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of when I was a kid in school, we practiced what we had to do in case we were bombed. I was in the second grade and of course we were terrified. This was in the late 1950s. The school had a shelter underground just minutes away.
ReplyDeleteHi Tanya, it's good to be back, I'm missed my blog friends.
ReplyDeleteWe have an actual "bomb shelter" in our basement. This house was built around the late 50's or 1960. It's in the corner of the basement and you enter the doorway and turn right and go down a concrete lined hallway and turn left into a room that has concrete on all sides, even the ceiling. This is just a guess, but it's about 12X12, maybe a little larger. It's full of stuff now, so I hope we don't ever need it! I've always thought that if one survived a nuclear attack that there wouldn't be much, if anything, left to come out of the shelter to. Interesting post!
Meant to type "I've" not I'm. :)
DeleteI remember when people would build 'bomb shelters' in their backyards. I took a flash pic in the classroom in high school once and the elderly teacher dove under her deck. We all thought it the funniest and scariest thing we ever saw.
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I had no idea they are still around! I remember lining up in the hall in grade school. Apparently if you were in the hall, the bomb fallout could not touch you.
ReplyDeleteIt was all about the "cold war" and the bomb that would fall. We are all back now at the same point in history, nothing has changed.....
ReplyDeleteFallout shelters were all the rage in the 1940s and 50s. Airpower came of age in WW II, and the atomic age in the 1950s. We were sure the Soviet Union was going to drop bombs on us, so there had to be fallout shelters. I am delighted that never happened.
ReplyDeleteTimes have changed - we now know that no shelter will help us.
ReplyDeleteYep, if there were enough of them left, I'd start a photo collection. But I come across fewer and fewer of them it seems.
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of a fallout shelter.
ReplyDeleteFrankly My Dear
Of course there are many of them around Berlin, just not marked the same way. Some are even open to visit. I share your interest in this weird part of history. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, there is one at Dinosaur Land, of all places!
ReplyDeleteThat's a sign I haven't seen in a while!
ReplyDeleteA curious relic of history. They weren't really a factor here in Canada, at least when I was growing up, though I was aware of them being more prominent in the 60s when things were considerably more tense.
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