In the not-so-distant past, there were thousands of fallout shelters in Missouri where the public could flee to in the event of a nuclear Armageddon. You still still spot some of them if you look close enough as remnants of the 1960's fallout culture still exist.

When I was a kid, my dad worked at the post office in Hannibal, Missouri. It is part of the Federal Building that also used to house a fallout shelter in the basement. There used to be one of the fallout shelter signs on the first floor near where the post office boxes still are.

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According to Waymarking.com, there's another fallout shelter that used to exits in a former police garage in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Waymarking says there's another old fallout shelter that used to exist in what used to be Rock Spring School in St. Louis, Missouri.

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If you look at the old Bremen Bank building in St. Louis, you can still see a fallout shelter sign on the left side of the building.

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There are many other places in Missouri that still have the fallout shelter signs up. There's an entire Reddit conversation devoted to them.

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Don't expect to enter any of these old fallout shelters as they were all decommissioned years ago, but the remnants still remain. I wouldn't be surprised if these signs end up being a valuable collectible and/or man cave decoration. It's a memory of a time when the world feared nuclear destruction that sadly doesn't look that different than the one we live in today.

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