![]() "I started asking my parents about it, and my interest grew from there, and since then, it's been over 20 years." "The middle school I attended in Boston was the William Barton Rogers Middle School and the school had those signs on it," said Sean Colby, the citizen-historian who runs the website And thankfully, for him and the rest of us, there's a local citizen-historian in the area who has spent years researching and documenting the history of these signs. His own interest in them was roused some 20 years ago, as a boy. Of course, LeMoult's building is just one of many in our area with one of these iconic black and yellow signs. "There’s this sign on the outside of our apartment building that says 'fallout shelter.' And I’ve been wondering for the longest time, what is the deal with this sign? What does it mean, how did that get designated, and is it any safer for us?" So did my colleague here at WGBH News, reporter Craig LeMoult, who was reminded of something that has long piqued his and his wife’s curiosity. and Vera R.When I heard the recent news about the false emergency alert in Hawaii that warned a ballistic missile was incoming, my first reaction was, "That’s terrifying," followed quickly by, "What would I do if I got an alert message like that?" Perhaps you had a similar reaction. United States: Indiana, Indianapolis Physical Description The donors purchased the property, including the shelter, from the Andersons in 1968. Wayne's high water table when first installed, the shelter popped to the surface of the Anderson front yard in time for the Cuban missile crisis and was quickly reinterred in a frenzy of shelter building activity in 1961. ![]() The Andersons maintained the shelter from its installation in 1955 through the 1960s, a period spanning the development of the hydrogen bomb and the Cuban missile crisis. Wayne realtor who began selling family fallout shelters as a sideline in early 1955 after reading a promotional Life magazine article. The Andersons purchased their shelter from J. ![]() This free-standing, double-hulled steel shelter was installed beneath the front yard of Mr. ![]() The family fallout shelter represents the public policy assumptions of the atomic age, namely, that with enough preparation, the American family and with it the nation's social and political fabric would survive a nuclear attack. ![]()
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