“I’d prefer to die like a man on the face of the earth, with a last look at the sun, rather than like a rat in an underground box made of reinforced concrete,” wrote Ivor Kraft of Baltimore. And at Fox Ridge, in Essex, developers of the 3,000 homes there promised each would include a 7-by-12-foot concrete chamber under the front porch, which could double as a game room or office. In Cedonia, a new neighborhood off Belair Road, a family could add an escape room to its floor plans for $325. In Odenton, each of the 268 houses in the planned Maple Ridge community would have them. Homebuilders added shelters to their designs. In Northeast Baltimore, managers of a new 128-room Holiday Inn on Loch Raven Boulevard trumpeted the fact that the motel’s meeting rooms could double as fallout shelters, approved by the U.S.
In 1961, more than 100 neighborhood groups in Baltimore County - notably in Pikesville, Randallstown and Dundalk - made plans to build “community” shelters to house anywhere from five to 100 families. In some areas, homeowners coalesced to protect one another. Nonetheless, Armco Steel Corp., on East Chase Street, began selling 9-by-10-foot fallout shelters ranging from what it called “a simple basement unit for less than $400 to a spacious underground providing what civil defense described as ‘absolute protection.’“
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