Fifty-nine years ago on Saturday, Seattle started building a future for itself. Like many Seattle infrastructure projects, this one wouldn’t necessarily pan out in the way leaders might’ve hoped. But it also presented a possibility for an alternative future for the city — on May 15, 1962 city officials broke ground on a new fallout shelter being built in Ravenna.
The shelter would go up relatively quickly, for how long it had been in the making; after years of the Cold War heating up, the U.S. conducting nuclear attack drills, proposal and design, and executive orders instructing “effective and viable civil defense,” officials broke ground in May 1962 and finished
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