There were hundreds of public fallout shelters around Rochester in the 1960s and 1970s, including one in the apartment building that now houses Turcott's Taproom on Monroe Avenue.The few signs still hanging around have been corroded by rust and time, and the spaces they advertised - once stocked with foodstuffs, first aid kits, canned water, toilet paper, and bedding - were long ago repurposed into storage rooms for who knows what.
Today, those signs are seen as kitschy relics of a different era, although a new poll conducted by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows that close to half of Americans say they are "very concerned" that Russia would directly target the U.S. They were affixed to hundreds of buildings in and around the city - schools, offices, apartment complexes, warehouses - that the Army Corps of Engineers had determined offered the right amount of “radiation shielding.”īack then, it was the Russians and the Cuban Missile Crisis that had pushed the Cold War simmer to a boil, and those yellow and black metal signs were seen as an ominous emblem of the times. Sixty years before Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the specter of nuclear war with his invasion of Ukraine - and President Joe Biden told Americans not to worry about it - iconic yellow and black signs marked “Fallout Shelter” began popping up in the streets of Rochester.
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