![]() ![]() The buildings designated as community fallout shelters during the 1960s were never meant as salvation from the explosion, only sanctuary from the ensuing radiation. ![]() "This building would have come down like a house of cards," said Larry Fairclough, the Masonic society’s secretary, walking into a high-ceilinged lounge with tall windows that an atomic blast could have shattered.įairclough was unsure what part of the Masonic building would act as a shelter, but he figures it might have been the Colonial Room or Egyptian Room, a pair of romantically decorated sanctuaries for society meetings, which are windowless and built with concrete roofs and floors on a steel frame. Beyond the sphinxes of the Salt Lake Masonic Temple’s stone steps - through the giant wooden doors and amid the hushed halls and secretive sanctuaries - is a fallout shelter. Salt Lake City had at least four - the Masonic temple, the Utah Capitol, the Pioneer Memorial Museum and the YWCA.
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