WBT Radio Station and Cold War Era Bunker (Charlotte, North Carolina)
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North Carolina /
Pineville /
Charlotte, North Carolina
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/ USA
/ North Carolina
/ Pineville
Cold War 1947-1991, bunker, radio station, fallout shelter, radio broadcasting tower
Via: www.nrcdxas.org/articles/WBTBombShelter.html
Photo from NPR: www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172398326/cold-war-bunker-networ...
"The voice of doom was supposed to speak from here."
A little-known relic of Cold War hysteria survives beneath the transmitter for WBT-AM on Nations Ford Road: a bunker-like radio studio from which would come the last word on preparing for nuclear attack and the first word for dealing with the aftermath - if anyone were out there to hear it.
Still stocked with Civil Defense survival crackers and giant air filters, WBT's bomb shelter is a monument to dread. It contains a 1960s radio studio - still hooked up to the transmitter and capable of broadcasting - that has never been used. Oversize turntables and tape machines, electronic dinosaurs in a digital age, sit ready to work.
Photo from NPR: www.npr.org/2013/02/19/172398326/cold-war-bunker-networ...
"The voice of doom was supposed to speak from here."
A little-known relic of Cold War hysteria survives beneath the transmitter for WBT-AM on Nations Ford Road: a bunker-like radio studio from which would come the last word on preparing for nuclear attack and the first word for dealing with the aftermath - if anyone were out there to hear it.
Still stocked with Civil Defense survival crackers and giant air filters, WBT's bomb shelter is a monument to dread. It contains a 1960s radio studio - still hooked up to the transmitter and capable of broadcasting - that has never been used. Oversize turntables and tape machines, electronic dinosaurs in a digital age, sit ready to work.
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Coordinates: 35°7'55"N 80°53'27"W
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