

Use this Investigation Sheet to guide students through describing the object and analyzing its meaning. The donors purchased the property, including the shelter, from the Andersons in 1968. Wayne's high water table when first installed, the shelter popped to the surface of the Anderson front yard in time for the Cuban missile crisis and was quickly reinterred in a frenzy of shelter building activity in 1961. The Andersons maintained the shelter from its installation in 1955 through the 1960s, a period spanning the development of the hydrogen bomb and the Cuban missile crisis. Wayne realtor who began selling family fallout shelters as a sideline in early 1955 after reading a promotional Life magazine article. The Andersons purchased their shelter from J. The Fallout Shelter Sign Posting Handbook lists the FS 1 as an exterior sign and the FS 2 as an interior sign but both were posted. Both have flat black and yellow reflective paint. The FS1 which is a 14 by 20 inch aluminum sign and the FS2 which is a 10 by 14 inch galvanized steel sign. This free-standing, double-hulled steel shelter was installed beneath the front yard of Mr. The two most common fallout shelter signs are shown above. It’s The Ultimate DIY fallout shelter near me Solution. I believe this is the best solution for most folks out there. Long enough for the worst of the fallout to dissipate. The family fallout shelter represents the public policy assumptions of the atomic age, namely, that with enough preparation, the American family and with it the nation's social and political fabric would survive a nuclear attack. But it’s a nuclear shelter you can get to fast and hunker down in for several weeks or months. Resource Type(s): Artifacts, Primary Sources
