Remember the home fallout shelters of the Cold War?

[bobbieinok]

Maybe some GOPers want to scare their people into getting a bunker for theit homes

I remember as a kid seeing the signs in downtown buildings that they had a fallout shelter.

[captain queeg]

1. My dad always wanted to build one. Never did

But lots of places had their basements designated as fallout shelters and some of the public ones had supplies stashed there.

[Igel]

6. Neighbors had a fall out shelter.

It provided a nice patio for cook outs and for playing on after it rained and the yard was wet.

Even in the '90s if you looked carefully you'd see fallout shelter signs still discretely placed in a number of public buildings.

[samnsara]

2. i remember going to the county fair and seeing booths advertising building the shelters...

[luvs2sing]

3. My earliest memories include..

hearing my mother and grandmother talking about getting a fallout shelter and what they would put in one. This was during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[Greybnk48]

4. In the 50's, there were buildings designated as fall-out shelter's

as I recall. Just like now we have tornado/severe storm shelters. or areas. Now they're novelty items. https://www.etsy.com/listing/750321965/rogue-river-tactical-funny-warning?ref=pla_similar_listings_top_ad-3&plkey=ef5e8ece27af1fe5a80e10e5

They also used to make us drill at school where we either huddled under our desks, or out in the hallway at school, as if that would actually work.

I'm not sure a 50's underground fallout shelter would be much better, or save anyone's life, unless it was set up like in the movie, "Blast From the Past."

[Midnight Writer]

13. I had a job in the Seventies checking fallout shelters. Changed out water and food periodically.

By the way, the food was mostly saltines in sealed cans. The bunkers also had Geiger counters, which we had to test.

Got paid by the federal Government.

[Ohiogal]

5. Walking home from elementary school

I passed the fire station with the Fallout Shelter sign on it.

[gibraltar72]

7. I remember in the 50s a guy came to our house selling bomb shelters.

He referred us to one he'd sold not far away. We went and looked at it. Maybe six months later we went back to the same house. The bomb shelter had saved them from Tornadoes that ripped through Michigan. That was probably around 1954 1955,

[tavernier]

8. My parents had one.

We were first generation off the boat from Europe one year after the war. But as time went by their fear decreased and they stopped putting food cans in there and it really kind of became a storage space. By that time I was a teenager and it was just a place for my friends and I to go and make out, lol.

[cwydro]

9. My father built one in our basement when I was a kid. Cuban missile crisis time.

My mother said she was opting out of living in the basement and would take her chances aboveground lol. We kids loved playing down there, but oh my the smell of that mildewy place!

Later he bought a large piece of property out in the country and built an underground house there. Some of his provisions are still on the shelves. I have the property and love him for it.

He was a Democrat, and he voted for Obama - his last vote before he died.

[wcmagumba]

10. My small college had one of these designated shelters...

in the late 70's. It was underneath a theater auditorium and used for storage. I worked back stage for a school job so I had access. You would see the sign upon entering the storage area. Still some shelves of old crackers and stuff. Weird spooky place...even stranger, there was a student, apparently without enough funding to live in a dorm or apt who was allowed to sleep down there by one of the theater faculty (he was a decent actor I guess). He was one of those guys who would approach others in the dining hall and ask for their leftover food (or cigarettes). I didn't like to go down there because of the shelter ambiance and also chances of bumping into this kid...strange days....

[Tracer]

11. My sister bought a house in Sioux City that had a fallout shelter.

It was located under a basketball half-court. My brother-in-law took me down there once. It was spacious, but dark, dank and smelly.

I suppose it was built because Sioux City isn't that far from Omaha (with its ICBM silos) and perhaps people thought that city would be the target of Russian bombs.

[rsdsharp]

12. Omaha has Offutt Air Force bade. -- home of SAC.

The missile silos are in western Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.

[StarryNite]

14. My friend's family in grade school had one.

I remember my mom saying she would rather just die from the bomb rather than to hunker down in the bomb shelter only to come out at some point to all the death and destruction that would be waiting above. I agreed with her.