![]() I believe that group will survive with fewer problems than will the single family attempting to go it alone. His idea was simple: “Psychologically, we’re social animals, and there is safety in numbers. Hall preferred to call it a “group survival shelter”. Rather than calling it a fallout shelter or a bomb shelter, Dr. James Basil Hall, the Lake County health director at the time was the mastermind behind the Catacombs. ![]() It was dubbed the “Mount Dora Catacombs”.ĭr. Taking a cue from Alas, Babylon, some of the wealthiest residents of Mount Dora got together to construct the largest privately-owned bomb shelter in the nation one that could house 25 families for at least 6 months. With Cuba being so close to Florida, the fear here was especially high schoolchildren practiced ducking underneath their desks, air raid sirens could be heard for miles, and families prepared by building bomb shelters in hopes that they will be safe during a Soviet attack. ![]() ![]() In 1961, the Cold War was in full effect and the threat of nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the United States was looming on the horizon. It deals with the effects of a nuclear war on a small fictional town called Fort Repose, Florida, which was based on the actual city of Mount Dora, Florida. ![]() Pat Frank’s “Alas, Babylon” first published in 1959Īlas, Babylon was written in 1959 by Pat Frank and was one of the first apocalyptic novels of the nuclear age. ![]()
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