Old Dallas Texas Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center Blast Shelter - Video 1 

Every old CD shelter should be reequipped and used by the Office of Emergency Management. IMO, we need to reequip all the old designated Fallout Shelters and start constructing new shelters, making Civil Defense the 4th leg of deterence.

That is really cool. When I was a kid we took a field trip to the museum and we toured this facility and it was still in operation in those days. Thank you for this video. I hadn't thought about that in years.

Well what do you know, an actual video to show the grandkids. We were watching the series Fallout with the grandkids, they asked if places like that really did exist in the 50's, I told them not only in the 50's but in the 60's also. Told them the story of going to the Science museum at Fair Park around 1969 or 1970, it was part of the museum exhibit/tour. Being 12 at that time it seem d really big, now watching the video, it sure is small. Kind of wished I still had the 8mm film my dad took of me and my little brother walking around in it. To much history vanishing now days. I remember Montgomery County Courthouse had a sign up, I want to say the shelter was under the Courthouse, but now it's just a parking area. Thanks for the vids.

I attended pre-school classes at Fair Park circa 1970, in that building. My most vivid memory of that time is this shelter. When they had the open house for parents and students one evening, they had the shelter open and we were able to go down and take a tour - it was still fully stocked with food and supplies and even had a medical clinic (when I saw that, I was pretty sure it was all just a trap in order to give me a shot of some sort 😂) The beds were bolted to the wall and stacked vertically, similar to what you see in submarines. I'll never forget the hair on the back of my neck standing up as we started down the stairs, seeing the massive hydraulic blast door, and knowing why that bunker existed. I got the exact same feeling this morning, after poking around the internet and finding this video. Very very cool.

I'm not sure why people don't utilize these as storm shelters, so cool. Can you imagine this being all stocked? Would be cool to have it as a display, like a museum walkthrough exhibit. A church in my hometown had a shelter built in its basement, still. Stocked with water barrels, a huge kitchen, a hydraulic door.

Sir, ty so much for this wonderful video! When I was young about 8 or 9 We woulf go to the science building and go down into this pristine shelter!, It was kept in perfect condition and stocked with food. It had 2 4 cylindere generators which were green color. I remember every bit of it. It breaks my heart to see it in ruins. And to see the sceince building like this is heart breaking, We learned so much from going there,,,,,,, You now have a new follower on you're chanel. Take care and again ty!

i get it is a big expense for the elevators and stuff but the government doesnt know the historical gem this offers!! to make a civil defense museum out of this place replicating how it used to look would be worth even a travel to see!!

This would be a good emergency operations center if remodeled. It would be good for a FEMA or another department like that.

would be so cool if someone could get a grant and restore it to exactly the way it looked when it was open

Very interesting, thank you.

Very cool, thanks for upload!

Yeah that's the same door. The guy with the museum tried to open it while we were there but the pump tripped a the breaker. We couldn't get the breaker to reset so we couldn't do anything with the door.

Very cool!

Oh man, im so glad you made this video. I really dig the Dallas EOC (and im also a fan of your website) and was wondering, do the people at the museum still allow people to go down there and tour the shelter?

That’s awesome

Considering its age, this Emergency Operations Center (E.O.C.) is in fairly surprising good condition. Despite it have been abandoned.

if you people were smart down there you would privatize that facility, clean it up, restock it, and be ready for when the SHTF.

If I'm not mistaken, that used to be the Science Museum - I remember that blast door at :32 from when I was a kid.

Did you ever find the AR timer and telephone relay that activated the sirens?

Nice! Places like that still give me the creeps, tho. Dunno why. Anyway, was the blast door that went outside the same door you have a video of closing?

where is this located?

Looks like the building that sits on top of this blast shelter is getting remodeled/gutted. Do you know if this is going to effect that blast shelter in any way?

How does one get on the list for exclusive viewings of Fair Park? I would absolutely love to see this in person.

Cool.

You know, that shelter can now be used as a storm shelter. could it?

Didn't they have collins comms based down their as well / also they supplied the defence department and even air force one comms ?

that's good for when you have tornadoes in Texas

Is the Civil Defense now FEMA- Federal Emergency Management Agency?

Where is that at in Dallas

ok cool

2:41. A pair of cardboard file boxes are sitting on top of a cabinet. Wonder what was in them.

Is it still in use just incase?

Some day i think we are going to regret letting these shelters go to hell.. i think we should have kept all the cd shelters and supplies up to date..

RIP To The Civil Defense

If I was told that this is where I will be staying for the rest of my life, this would be the fourteenth reason why.

Wish the blast door was lava-proof, bullet-proof, and acid-proof.

yeah when the big one comes the building falls on entance and your in your own tomb

I would so upgrade that shelter! In the radio room, it obviously needs computers and newer radios, plus some hologram projectors and a TV on the wall for weather and fallout information and news, the dorms need new beds and TV's and Xbox and Playstations and their own bathrooms for the occupants, the blast doors will need to be able to withstand a 50 megaton blast from just 5 MILES away (no joke), the shelter will need washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, garbage disposal, robots for firefighting and security and maintenance and radiation monitoring, EMP Shield, plus other things.

Gone are the days when surviving a nuclear attack was a possibility. In this day and age, that would be a mass grave instead of an emergency operations center.

Welp it’s looking like they might want to open that bad boy back up given the current state of the world!🥴

The chances of nuclear war is very remote. Natural disasters are the most likely events to occur.

Too much ant too fast camera moving left to right up and down not ggod