[MassHistPres] Bomb shelter

[Cupfish Cupfish]

I am unfamiliar with the Recent Past Preservation Network and also don't 
know what VAF stands for.  Please advise.

This is all helpful, as usual.  Hence, all good preservationists are invited 
to flee to my bunker in the event a rogue nation drops the "big one" on 
Central Mass.

Anne Kornitsky
Oakham
508 882 3777




>From: Dennis De Witt <djdewitt at rcn.com>
>To: MHC listserve <masshistpres at cs.umb.edu>
>Subject: Re: [MassHistPres] Bomb shelter
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:33:17 -0500
>
>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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