Thesis
Take cover, Spokane: a history of backyard bunkers, basement hideaways, and public fallout shelters of the Cold War
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2010
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/101395
Abstract
This thesis explores backyard bunkers, basement hideaways, and public fallout shelters established in Spokane and Spokane County during the Cold War. Early Spokane-area shelters date back at least as far as the Indian Wars and World War II. The rise and fall of a mania for backyard bunkers and basement hideaways occurred in the early 1960s. The Spokane region's public fallout shelter program emerged in 1961 and collapsed in 1978. This thesis reveals the current state of a handful of abandoned shelters and suggests that Spokane and Spokane County should inventory and preserve the last remains of these sites. The key primary sources used in this study were the Spokane Civil Defense Scrapbook collection at the Eastern Region Branch of the Washington State Archives in Cheney, the Washington State Civil Defense Administration papers at the Washington State Archives in Olympia, the Henry M. Jackson papers at the University of Washington's Special Collections Library, and the Walt Horan Papers at Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC).
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Details
- Title
- Take cover, Spokane
- Creators
- Lee Thomas O'Connor
- Contributors
- Orlan J. Svingen (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- History, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Identifiers
- 99900525098801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis