Showing posts with label fallout shelter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fallout shelter. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

Cold War Relic


An old Fallout Shelter sign next to the marble-columned entrance of a Willett Street apartment building.

I don't recall the last time I saw one of these Cold War relics, though they were much more common in my childhood. I still remember the drills we had in grade school...filing into double-line against the walls of that long, dim hall at Vincentian Institute. At the time, though, I wasn't quite old enough to connect those drills with signs like this and the Cold War was already in its final stages.