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Arlo Knows Where To Go
Contributor Brian sent us these photos from the movie Alice’s Restaurant (1969), starring Arlo Guthrie, Patricia Quinn, and James Broderick. Here, Arlo is in a hospital and an interior Fallout Shelter...
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The Cab, The Sign, and The Siren
From the desk of our assistant editor Tim comes this screenshot from a WGBH Archives clip of Hyde Park from 1979. Pictured is Boston Police Station 5 (now E-18) on Hyde Park Avenue. On top of the...
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Love in a Fallout Shelter: Falling in love when you’re underground
As the saying goes, love is blind and the term “love at first sight” can be a very real thing. People fall in love everywhere, at any time, and sometimes with someone they just met. This can even...
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It used to be noodles and shelter; now it’s neither
The Ho Toy Noodle Company was located for many years in Chinatown at 72-79 Essex Street, just on the edge of Chinatown. It has since moved, but the building that it once called home is still there and...
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Sign? What Sign?
One walking by this building at 136 West 28th Street in Manhattan might not notice the exterior Fallout Shelter sign that has not only been painted over but also used to mount not one but two...
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FS At The YWCA
Like many of its brother and sister buildings throughout the US, this YWCA building in Manchester, New Hampshire still has an exterior Fallout Shelter sign, showing capacity for 395 people. Manchester...
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Where Jekyll And Hyde Meet Dr. Strangelove
The Jekyll and Hyde Art Gallery and Studio, located in Laconia, New Hampshire bills itself as an “Oddities and Curiosities” Gallery, and sure enough has what appears to be an NOS (new old stock –...
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A Grand Old Sign in Old Grand Lake
Contributor Theresa submitted these photos taken on February 1, 2023, from the Grand Lake neighborhood of Oakland, California showing a pole-mounted exterior Fallout Shelter sign. Pole-mounted signs...
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The Sound Around Town: Sometimes Wanted, Sometimes Not
This photo taken of the West Brookfield, Massachusetts town hall on October 29, 2023, shows a Federal Signal air raid siren on the roof. A similar one was on the roof of a building in nearby Warren,...
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Makes You Wonder What The Other Sign Would Have Looked Like
The National Fallout Shelter Survey, which began in September of 1961, brought the Army Corps of Engineers and civilian architects and engineers who were put through Civil Defense training classes...
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