Also known as Weapons of Mass Destruction or WMD’s. They were a durable ration that people who tasted them compared to graham crackers.At Hardened Structures we design our civilian underground Bomb Shelters primarily for nuclear weapons of medium to large size but also secondary for chemical, biological and radiological dispersion devices and conventional weapons. For food, the shelters had “survival biscuits.” They were nothing like the good southern biscuits that made such places as Biscuitville and Bojangles’ famous. The shelters were stocked with individual 17.5 gallon quantities of water, enough for each person to have a quart a day for two weeks. The Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel building - with its cavernous underground press room - also doubled as a shelter. In addition to the Central Library, the shelters were in department stores, banks, factory buildings. Schoolchildren were just beginning to be taught how to duck and cover under their desks in the event of a nuclear bombing.īy 1964, there were 49 shelters in downtown Winston-Salem, and officials assured us those shelters could care for 47,000 people. The library opened in 1953, at the dawn of the Cold War. So how did the ground floor of the library go from ground zero to Teen Central? The story parallels that of the culture of the Cold War. Had there been a nuclear war, the library would have been one of the places where people could have gone to wait out the apocalypse. Whatever the future of downtown’s Central Library, a big part of its past has been largely forgotten.Īt the height of the Cold War, the Central Library was one of the city’s most public fallout shelter locations, and visitors to the library were greeted with a black-and-yellow sign telling them so. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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