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“I’ve always wondered where each of the nuclear fallout shelters is in DC. This one appears to be No. 25, on Park RD right after 11th ST.”I too have been fascinated by these signs.
Michelle also found this sweet bench on Park Road. Not surprisingly, I also admire sweet porch furniture.
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Quibble: the shelter appears to be #(missing number)-0-2-5. Possibly 1025, its address on Park?
What’s the deal with people using the apostrophe to pluralize things these days… as in “Shelter’s”
Put the bench in the shelter, and you got a party!
There is a sign for one at the Calverton – 1673 Columbia Rd NW
So, those are just old signs left over from when people thought getting under your desk and tucking your head would save you from the nuclear blast right? They’re not STILL fallout shelters, right? RIGHT? Someone put my mind at ease.
They’ve all been long since decommissioned, but I’m pretty sure they were all maintained well into the 1980s. The official fallout shelters were a bit more elaborate than getting under your desk. They were usually in the basements of sturdy, brick or stone buildings, and were equipped with geiger counters and emergency rations and water supplies.
There is one at the corner of Columbia and 11th (One building toward 13th on Columbia actually)
@Divine: I have no idea if they’re still shelters, but they’re all over the place. They may still be.
15th Street Co-op (corner of 15th and T) has a fall out shelter sign.
There’s one on the Baptist church at the corner of 13th and Monroe in NW
Howard has one which I always felt was magnanimous of the ’50s bureaucrats who apportioned them.
My high school (not in DC) was a fall-out shelter. I always got a laugh because while the walls were thick there were a ton of windows.
A few more:
404-404 H Street, NE:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rock_creek/3104956055/
The (since demolished) Powell Junior High on Hiatt Place, NW:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_t_in_dc/2356462132/
St. Elizabeth’s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/themosleyvault/3112421144/
Hyde Elementary School in Georgetown:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13036849@N00/3874807550/in/photostream/
Abandoned storefront, Georgia and Missouri Aves.:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/617301934/
Hillwood:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/southbound_07/2271754207/
Howard University:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/2276408486/
Er, that should be “402-404 H Street, NE”.
The _025 on the sign is the capacity — probably used to read 1025, back in the days when government even pretended to maintain shelters for mere citizens. Today, we have “secure undisclosed facilities” for the ruling class, and duct-tape for the rest of us.
And @ET, even with windows, the basement and interior hallways of a solidly constructed building make fine fallout shelters. A fact we DC residents may have occasion to re-learn, eventually. Along with the difference between “blast shelter” and “fallout shelter”.