(Google “fallout shelter” today and you’ll be directed to a website for a video game.) Wish I had more information.”Īctually, by her time at City High, America’s gripping fear of impending thermonuclear war - and the urgency of having access to fallout shelters - had largely faded. “However, I do not remember anything about the shelter other than seeing the sign posted in the basement. “I did go to the high school from 1973-1976,” South Middle language arts teacher Marie Stier Cavanah said via email.
Not much seemed to have been known to students a decade later. “There was a rumor that there was food in there,” he said, “but we could never get inside.” “I didn’t have a clue,” said Mac Grace, who was a student at City High from 1962 until graduating in 1966 and has been a teacher at the school since 1976.Ībout all he knew was that the school had some black-and-yellow fallout shelter signs that were once a common sight at public buildings in American cities.Īs it is today, the access door to the crawl space where the civil defense supplies sit today “was always locked,” Grace said. “Probably five,” custodian Kirby Moser speculated.Įven students at what in the early 1960s was Henderson High School, or “City High,” knew little about the supplies that were intended to help a forgotten number of people to survive two weeks inside a fallout shelter. Hardly any of the 800 students there today know about the boxes of civil defense supplies, which are dated 1962 and early 1963. The only tangible evidence of it today is a collection of moldering boxes and drums from the federal Office of Civil Defense, tossed into a dirt-floored crawl space in a quiet corner of what is known as South Middle’s enrichment basement.
“I can’t find enough proof to my liking for all the details,” South Middle Principal Ryan Reusch said. There is nearly more unknown - or forgotten - than there is known about the nearly 60-year-old shelter. HENDERSON, Ky. - Behind a locked, unmarked access hatch in the basement of South Middle School rest relics from the height of the Cold War: emergency supplies intended for a nuclear fallout shelter at the school. View Gallery: Relics hidden in South Middle Schools forgotten fallout shelter
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