Kennedy advised American families to build bomb shelters to protect themselves from atomic fallout if the Soviet Union launched a nuclear missile attack. "I've already begun," Enos said last week, holding aloft a tin re-creation of an old-fashioned, civil defense fallout shelter sign. He's decided to restore the shelter to a vintage Cold War-era look. "I thought, 'You know what, maybe I ought to start doing something with it,' " Enos said. Word spread, two other newspapers called, and now he's begun to take a new view of his below-ground hiding place. That changed a month ago when a hometown newspaper writing a history piece on fallout shelters heard about Enos' and tracked him down for an interview. "I didn't really take too much interest in it," he said. Their two daughters haven't ventured into the fallout shelter either. "My wife has never been down here," Enos said. Things you notice from inside the fallout shelter: The air is cool and slightly damp - 60 to 65 degrees you can't hear what's going on above ground and if your flashlight batteries die, you'd be immersed in darkness. "I'd like to find the original door, but I don't know if it exists," he said. To climb down there via a detached ladder, you first open the wooden entrance door that replaced the original or unfinished one. A wire from a former light pokes through a wall.
The dusty jugs are still there on the dirt floor, next to a few scattered cinder blocks.
He soon figured out that the crank was part of a manual pump meant to suck filtered air down into the 6-foot-6-high, 9-by-12-foot shelter dug 20 feet below the ground, between his garage and the edge of his property on a hillside overlooking the Connoquenessing Creek.Įxploring the subterranean space for the first time, Enos found 30 plastic jugs of water bearing the name of a dairy that closed a quarter-century ago. The sellers at the time mentioned something about a "fruit cellar" out back, though Enos realized he had acquired something else once he discovered a hand crank in the garage with remnants of a sticker that said "radioactive filter." "Or probably a Scud missile attack, or a napalm bomb or a tornado," said the Ellwood City man with a fallout shelter behind his Glen Avenue garage.Įnos didn't build the concrete-walled underground bunker - it came with the house he and his wife bought 17 years ago. ELLWOOD CITY - Ed Enos would be ready for a zombie apocalypse.
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