In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Chris recalls the business received a letter saying the supplies would be picked up. and another sign above the interior basement entrance to the shelter.Ĭhris Sallade, a fourth-generation member of the business, provided a tour of the sturdy basement shelter and its supplies – still in place after six decades. There are 17½-gallon-barrels of water, boxes of crackers, and a box of emergency medical supplies still in place. There is a weathered Civil Defense Shelter sign on the older building at 124 W. One such place is the basement of the original Chas.

More: She's working to plant 200 trees along the Susquehanna Trail to honor veterans A time capsule I do not know of any formal program to clean out” those supplies. Mike Shanabrook, a York City office of emergency planning specialist, said, “I know some facilities still have Civil Defense supplies. So where have all the CD fallout shelters gone? Another 392 buildings in York had been identified as potential fallout shelters (but not designated as such) for an additional 131,720 people.The article did not explain the major difference between the number of people who could fit in a shelter and the amount of food and water for them.Water was stockpiled in barrels for 25,000 people.There was enough food in the shelter (probably the well-known shelter crackers) for 18,427 people.That figure was 14,000 more than the number of people living in the city at that time.The shelters could accommodate 69,089 people.134 Licensed Public Fallout Shelters in the City of York.It is an intriguing look at the York that was: The article gives an inventory of Civil Defense fallout shelters compiled from the 1960 census. 19, 1968 York Gazette & Daily, a predecessor publication of the York Daily Record. In the Civil Defense file at the York County History Center Library and Archives is a newspaper clipping from the Feb. As the namesake of the motivating World War II “York Plan” – “Do what you can with what you have” – it is possible the community could have been a nuclear target. York, at the time, was an industrial hub. Banks and buildings with sturdy basements were usually so marked.

You could walk through downtown York and see many buildings marked with signs indicating the structure was a Civil Defense shelter in case of nuclear attack.

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