Fallout shelter sign old9/15/2023 ![]() “Scared to death, looking up at the sky all the time, waiting for the big one,” she said.Īnother former nuclear shelter was just blocks away at the Carlos J. Vidor remembers air raid sirens that were regularly tested when she was growing up in Chicago, and the fear such exercises caused. The former shelter looks much like any basement would, with exposed pipes, boxes stacked on top of each other and shelves lining the walls.Ī court employee one day stuck a paper sign on the door to a maintenance crawl space, mistakenly identifying that as the nuclear shelter, not knowing that the basement itself was the shelter. Broadway was built in 1958, the shelter has been used for storage since well before Rhoads got to the courthouse seven years ago. “Knowing today what I know about atom bombs and all that, no one would have survived down there,” said Administrative Assistant Mary Rhoads, an overseer of the Glendale courthouse.ĭating from when the building at 600 E. Pictures shows example signs.GLENDALE – The fallout shelter sign is still up in a hallway at the Glendale courthouse, but call it a sign of the times that the basement shelter now stores files instead of food rations and emergency supplies.Ī reminder of a period in the Cold War when air raid sirens could any minute announce an incoming nuclear attack, the sign is a historical relic – since the shelter itself has been all but forgotten. This has 4 small mounting holes, one in each corner. Printed at the bottom of the sign in small print it says "DOD FS NO.2 (NOT TO BE REPRODUCED OR USED WITHOUT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PERMISSION". 7,8,9 the box from which the sign comes from. As proof of authenticity, I also present in the photo no. Originally, the signs were packed 40 pieces in one box. They were screen printed the fashioned way black print first and then the yellow over that. New Old Stock condition, unused, however, due to many years of storage, it may have signs of time. 1960s US fallout shelter sign from the Cold War period. Today we offer you a very original and beautiful piece of American history. ![]()
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