United States: Indiana, Indianapolis Physical Description The donors purchased the property, including the shelter, from the Andersons in 1968. The Andersons of Fort Wayne, Indiana, were preparing for nuclear fallout even before the government disseminated this booklet, which includes building plans for five basic shelters. 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. According to the Saturday Review, one of the shortest paths to wealth was the successful anticipation of a national fad, and during the summer of 1961 the home fallout shelter stood to become one of the most demanded consumer products in Cold War America. 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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