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D130549-5
Date(s)
- 1961-04-17 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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A crane is slowly lowering a bomb shelter in a newly excavated hole at the residence of Frederick Pneuman of Fircrest in April, 1961. Tensions were still running high with Russia and thousands chose to build bomb shelters in hopes of protecting themselves from nuclear fallout. Frederick Pneuman, a structural engineer with Douglas Fir Plywood Association, had decided to put an underground unit on the side of his Fircrest home at 630 Maywood Lane. The fallout shelter had been built by Douglas Fir Plywood after two years of research and testing. Photograph ordered by Douglas Fir Plywood Association. TPL-3834 (TNT 9-3-61, A-6)
Air raid shelters--Fircrest; Hoisting machinery; Pneuman, Frederick--Homes & haunts;