------------------------------------- i don't remember Fallout shelters and i never dropped and covered . We did have basements at homes . This was about 1962 and i was about 12 years old . Why no Fallout shelters nowadays , maybe because millions of dead is acceptable when compared to the expense of building and stocking million of Shelters that only the important political people need and will have Tom .
Most of the fallout shelters of the 60's were parking garages, subway tunnels, anything concrete underground. They were really blast shelters, useless against fallout. The stuck one of those black and yellow signs on it and expected those out and about to run into them when the russian missiles started hitting. We had a neighbor who dug and constructed a fallout shelter but it flooded every Spring and covered everything inside with mold. In winter his family would have frozen to death in it but if the Ivans attacked between May and September he would have been okay.