Delta: Moody House
The c.1956 “bomb shelter” underneath the carport of this 1950 Colonial Revival style house in Delta was always referred to as the “fruit room” by the Moody family. The actual fruit room was the smaller section of the two-room structure. The shelves were slanted to allow canned goods at the back to roll forward when a can in the front was removed. The larger room had a cot, water storage, first aid materials, etc. One of the teen-age boys would sleep down there in the summer when the house was too hot. While this structure was built primarily for food storage, it had an intended second purpose as a bunker at a time when bomb shelters were starting to be a topic of public discussion.
An enclosed stairway behind the back wall of the carport provided access to the two-room concrete bomb shelter/fruit room.
