Fallout Shelter
January 20th, 2009
I love stumbling across old Fallout Shelter signs, those relics of the Cold War that invite you into a sturdy basement to wait out the rain of radioactive waste falling outside so that you can emerge in two weeks to find your country a wasteland of rot and toxic filth. I came across this one in Chicago a few weeks ago and photographed it with my Holga (cheap plastic camera that I love ever so much). I thought it turned out excellent and wanted to share. (Click on the image for the full version on The Camera DeMentia.)
Red Dawn being one of my favorite 80’s cold war classics, I too love these relics of a time when we were sure to be vaporized in searing nuclear wind.
Ha! My high school had the town fallout shelter in the basement, I loved that sign. One of my friends went down there and said it was full of granola bars.
I love spotting those signs as well. As soon as I see one I can’t help but picture people scrambling to get to the building or the surrounding scene as a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
I’ll have to take a pic of the one here in my library.
I have one of those signs, and I have no idea where it came from. I just love to collect old creepy things…
I have one, too. Fell off the sub-sub-basement wall and into my briefcase at our municipality’s central library. On my basement wall now. You know, just in case.
I love your little Holga too Despair…
Nice shot!
Morgana
Was this taken at Farren Elementary?
No, it was taken at the American Indian Center.
Holy crapazoid. There’s one of those just down the road from me in Rutledge, TN, on the old courthouse and jail. I’ll bet the damn place is still full of C-Rations. Ewwwww…