“I figured if anyone dropped a bomb, we could save our family.”īuyers often are drawn to extra spaces, especially if they’re big enough for a variety of uses. “I thought it was cool when we first saw it,” says Lisella. Nickie Lisella’s Allendale, N.J., house came with a bomb shelter. In 1960, Popular Mechanics magazine offered readers advice on how to build a shelter, saying: “An underground shelter having at least 3 feet of earth or sand over it, plus adequate door and air filter, will give you almost complete protection.”
Magazines are piled on the table, to help pass the time underground. A photo from the National Archives shows a cozy model, with a table covered by a checked cloth, two neatly made bunk beds, and shelves stacked with canned food. He had fallen into the bomb shelter tunnel, which the family later closed up.īomb shelters were built in the 1950s and 1960s as places to escape nuclear fallout.
Bobby Kaplan recalls that when the couple first moved into the house, he was in the yard with the dog when it suddenly vanished. The Cold War hideout has thick concrete walls and a 2½-foot-diameter corrugated-metal tunnel, which leads beneath the lawn to the outside. The shelter is a surprise in the Kaplans’ large stucco house, which has been so extensively renovated it looks nearly new.
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