Dozens of water barrels remain stacked in a stairwell in the large complex, along with a box of crackers and first aid supplies. Located beneath Woodminster Amphitheater in Joaquin Miller Park, the long-forgotten, self-contained shelter remains intact, providing mostly storage for the park’s maintenance crews.Ī reporter and photographer toured the facility, hours before performers rehearsed for the upcoming show “Beauty & the Beast,” above. It is currently not really in use at all, except for some overflow storage for the theater. (Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group) Originally built during the Cold War era as a place for city officials to go to continue running the city in the event of a nuclear event, the shelter has been used for several things since then, including being used by the Oakland Police Department many years ago. One Oakland Tribune article captured a volunteer’s diary from the experience.Īn old Civil Defense bomb shelter sits underneath the Woodminster Amphitheater in Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, Calif., photographed on Thursday, Aug. The old Dublin test bunker is long gone, Minniear said outside Santa Rita Jail, where sheriff’s archives include newspaper clippings and photographs of the odd experiment. Some relics you can visit, while others are just memories. And much of this Cold War history remains around us. With North Korea and the United States rattling nuclear sabers this month, the Bay Area’s concern has stoked reminders of a time when the specter of nuclear war was a constant source of worry. For more travel coverage from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond “There was no standard design for a fallout shelter, so they conducted this experiment,” said Dublin historian Steven Minniear, president of the Dublin Historical Preservation Association, who is writing a book about the city’s history and the mysterious Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory that operated on old Camp Parks land. Off in the foothills of Dublin, the men, wearing vests with their identification numbers, were placed into a large, half-cylinder-shaped room, 25-feet-wide and 48-feet-long, with open toilets, air conditioning, and shuffleboard, cards and checkers to pass the time. The little-known East Bay nuclear war experiment on Alameda County prisoners
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