If you’ve ever been in downtown Vermilion you might have noticed the little fallout shelter sign sitting outside the mayor’s office at 5511 Liberty Ave. To some it’s amusing, to others disquieting and ...

I remember years ago when I used to drive past the Security Fire Department building, It had a fallout shelter sign on it. I wonder if the fallout shelter is still there, and if not what happened to ...

Robert Blakeley, whose yellow-and-black fallout shelter sign became a grim symbol of the Cold War and, in many places across the country, a now-rusting reminder of the perils of nuclear brinkmanship, ...

A fallout shelter sign left over from the Cold War still visible in Brooklyn, New York. Caldwell Elementary School in McKinney, Texas, northeast of Dallas, looks like a typical 1940s-era brick school ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Blakeley, whose yellow-and-black fallout shelter sign became a grim symbol of the Cold War and, in many places across the country, a now-rusting reminder of the perils of nuclear ...

The sign in front of the Los Angeles County Superior Court building downtown is one of thousands administered federally by the Office of Civil Defense. The first mention of this version of the public ...

One of the most chilling symbols of the Cold War has to be the black-and-yellow aluminum sign, indicating a nuclear fallout shelter. The man responsible for the sign, Robert Blakeley, died on Oct. 25, ...

When Dot Carver was a girl, she and her brother played a game in the car on long vacation trips with their parents: How many of dad’s signs can we find? After all, they seemed to be everywhere, back ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has quietly begun removing some of the corroding yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs that were appended to thousands of buildings in the 1960s, saying many are ...

The Cold War was a turbulent time. As millions of Americans became fearful of nuclear armageddon, they prepared by building fallout shelters. The thick-walled shelters were stocked with enough food to ...

Designer Robert W. Blakeley isn’t a household name, but every American has seen his work. No, he wasn’t employed by Coca-Cola or Ford or Disney, but instead worked for the US government. Blakeley’s ...

Even as North Korea whips up anxieties over its nuclear capabilities, New York City has quietly begun removing some of the corroding yellow nuclear fallout shelter signs added to thousands of ...