Topical Guide 797

Mark Dorset

Projects: Fallout Shelter: Stocking It

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CBS News, “When Home Fallout Shelters Were All the Rage”:

Fallout shelter with a 10-inch reinforced concrete ceiling with thick earth cover and concrete walls built by Louis Severance near his home near Akron, Mich. It featured a special ventilation and escape hatch, an entrance to the basement, kitchen, running water, sanitary facilities, and a sleeping and living area for the family of four. The shelter cost about $1,000. (Image source: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Civil Preparedness Agency)

In a Nov. 16, 1962 archive photograph, Mrs. W. C. Bruner and daughter Rhonda, 8, pose in their home fallout shelter in Knoxville, Tenn. The photo's original caption was headed “Prepared for the Worst.”(Image source: AP Photo, Knoxville News Sentinel)

See also:
Projects, Practical and Impractical TG 367, TG 569, TG 615; Ideal or Real TG 443; Difficult TG 714

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