[MassHistPres] Bomb shelter

[Aaron Marcavitch]

Very cool question!  Maybe you will have some luck if we posted this to the Recent Past
Preservation Network.  This is very much a recent past type of preservation project.

However, my first blush at this is that it IS worth documenting, at minimum.  Perhaps parts of it
can be removed and saved at the local historical society.  These types of things tend to not be
saved - and I would love to have a visual, written, and drawn record.

Good luck!
Aaron

--- Cupfish Cupfish <cupfish at msn.com> wrote:

> I posted this over the summer and don't know if it was received, as I was 
> then having listserv mail problems.  My apologies if this is a repeat.
> 
> How important is it to preserve a 1950 backyard bomb shelter?  The structure 
> has a concrete floor about 12'x12', with masonry block walls on 3 sides.  
> The entrance side has a heavy wooden outside door with another interior 
> wooden door that closes from the inside. (Scary!)  The bunker is 
> south-facing, dug into a small hillock.  The ceiling was originally 
> underground; huge wooden beams with layers of roofing materials on top, then 
> the dirt.  It's the ceiling that's deteriorating and will cave in without 
> preservation.  The man who built it was the Civil Defense coordinator for 
> our community.
> 
> This is one of those preservation jobs that has pretty much no benefit for 
> the homeowner, but I think it's also a real piece of American history.  The 
> public bomb shelters have almost all disappeared and been converted to other 
> uses.  I found no information about backyard bomb shelter preservation.  Can 
> anyone think of who to contact to find out what other people have done to 
> preserve Cold War icons like this?
> 
> Anne Kornitsky
> Oakham MA
> 508 882 3777
> 
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