# Whatever Happened to Fallout Shelters Built in the 1950's?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 8, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504 "2009-12-08T20:48:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504/61 "2009-12-11T11:59:08Z")

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> [@spoke-](#):
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> Yeah, but of course the first order of business would be to go kick some Russkie survivor ass! :mad: 😉

Goes without saying. We can not allow a post-apocalyptic subsistance gap !

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**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504/62 "2009-12-11T16:53:01Z")

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That would be even worse than a mine-shaft gap.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2009, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504/63 "2009-12-11T21:49:32Z")

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The funeral home my dad used to work at had a fallout shelter – since they just used it for storage, I can imagine it would probably keep the corpses pretty well preserved.

😃

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504/64 "2009-12-12T16:54:21Z")

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A friend bought a house with a bomb shelter. The entryway leading down into it had a sharp turn in it because gamma rays couldn’t turn corners.

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2009, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-fallout-shelters-built-in-the-1950s/520504/65 "2009-12-12T17:39:30Z")

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There used to be a place near my city that made cast concrete storm shelters.  
They’d dig a hole and set it in.

There’s been times I’ve been squatting down in the hallway wishing I had one of those shelters. Tornado’s scare the crap out of me. A friend of mine got picked up and slung across a warehouse before he grabbed on to something.

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