Man didn’t know he lived above a bomb shelter

Posted by Algonkin in Everything Else, Home & Garden, Weapons & War on March 6, 2008 at 8:27 am

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When Scot Simpson bought his circa 1953 house in Charlottte NC, little did he know that he would find an 8-by-12-foot bunker buried beneath his lawn mower shed.

“The bomb shelter was built about 1960 or 1961″, said Earle Heath, who still lives next door. Heath was 12 or 13 back then. “The owner of the house was in the construction business”, he said, “and sent workers over to dig the hole and pour the concrete”.

That would have been just before the Cuban missile crisis, when many Americans feared nuclear Armageddon.

Simpson would like to get rid of the poured concrete and steel bunker, but doesn’t know what’s involved in getting rid of it.

Source: Charlotte Observer

 
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