It was outfitted with six bunk-type beds chained to the curved walls, a portable heater, small bathroom, kitchen facilities, deep well water, electricity, lighting and air systems, kitchen facilities and sofas.įultz estimated he could stay there for up to six months and said the $2,000 to $3,000 cost was "cheap insurance" against the threat of a nuclear attack, however slight. The idea followed naturally from his profession installing gasoline tanks in the area for oil companies, and he also installed tank shelters for other families, a JCourier-Journal story said. By that time, the family was using the shelter for napping, reading and as a dressing room for their swimming pool. Fultz of Valley Station in Louisville was in the forefront.įultz installed a 6,000-gallon former gasoline tank underground to use as a shelter on his property on Saint Paul Church Road, today behind St. The situation precipitated the "great fallout shelter boom of 1961," as Associated Press writer Tom Henshaw dubbed it in 1962, and E.R. Kennedy called up military reserves, the Berlin Wall was built between Communist East Berlin and West Berlin and the Soviet Union resumed nuclear testing. International tensions were running high in the summer of 1961. View Gallery: Gallery l The Great Fallout Shelter Boom
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