It was also hard to secure too much federal support for the shelters as the government preferred the ones built under suburban backyards.Īs Cold War tactics transitioned from atomic posturing to proxy wars, focus on the shelter program started to fade.įallout shelters - and the supplies in them - were practically a thing of the past by the mid-1970s.īut their rations remained in dusty cellars often several feet below street level.
Supplies were installed for $2.40 a person, and included aspirin, toilet paper and hard candies.īut within three years, many of the city’s shelters lacked the supplies necessary to accommodate the population of America’s biggest city, according to the newspaper. of Engineers to have shelters that could hold 11,703,090 people, the New York Times reported in 2003. In 1963, 17,448 properties were identified by the Army Corps. “You see them a lot in urban areas that were high-threat area and had the resources to do it,” Schlegelmich said. A fallout shelter sign on a President St.
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