[MassHistPres] Bomb shelter

[Dennis De Witt]

How about the VAF?  Do they have a listserve?

Dennis De Witt


On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Aaron Marcavitch wrote:

> 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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