2016-12-02T17:33:21Z http://www.ps164alumni.net/forum/topics/1978143:Topic:12665?commentId=1978143%3AComment%3A24801&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=no tag:www.ps164alumni.net,2009-03-29:1978143:Comment:24801 2009-03-29T06:57:43.579Z Yumiko Hoshi http://www.ps164alumni.net/profile/YumikoHoshi

I don't remember the shelter drills at P.S. 164, but I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis very well. In my present neighborhood here in California, there are homes that still have the bomb shelters in their yard. One of my neighbors makes his own wine and keeps them down there as a cellar. He took me on a tour once...very steep steps going down underground...and then a small room with 4 bunk beds on each side of the room...Were the basements used as bomb shelters in NY? Or did people actually…

I don't remember the shelter drills at P.S. 164, but I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis very well. In my present neighborhood here in California, there are homes that still have the bomb shelters in their yard. One of my neighbors makes his own wine and keeps them down there as a cellar. He took me on a tour once...very steep steps going down underground...and then a small room with 4 bunk beds on each side of the room...Were the basements used as bomb shelters in NY? Or did people actually have a bomb shelter in our old neighborhood?