Hi, VT'ans:
Ann's comment about Broadway reminded me to ask about a huge cellar, possibly originally built as a bomb shelter, under Broadway Village.


The acquaintance who relayed this had grown up in the Broadmoor neighborhood (he was born in '61) and used to go to the drug store that was there at the time (I believe in the space that most recently was Zocalo and now will be the new grocery store). One day the owner(? I think?) showed him the basement (accessed through a door in the back) which was being used for storage, but had been kitted out with electric power and looked to my acquaintance like it could have been a neighborhood shelter. There used to be a yellow siren-looking thing atop a pole on the NEC Country Club/ Broadway, which could corroborate my acquaintance's anecdote.


The construction guys on the site Wednesday (26th) doing the interior demo/remodel work knew nothing about it, so perhaps it had been sealed off or my acquaintance was mis-remembering.


Any ideas?


Cheers,
Les.

The yellow air raid sirens didn't denote a shelter area. They were a part of Tucson until mid 80's? Growing up here you always knew when it was 1pm Saturday afternoons
As the sirens would sound for one minute.
Cool and eerie at the same time.

P.S. Palo Verde High Shool was rumored to have fallout shelter and armory for national guard.

Buildings with public fallout shelters were clearly marked. I don't recall whether or not there was a shelter in Broadway Village. My neighborhood shelter was at the VFW at Craycroft and 29th St.

I used to know where a bunch of them were located, but time has erased those memories, or at least buried them pretty well.

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