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A peek inside the Green Lake fallout shelter

What do you think? (5 Comments) May 12, 2010 at 10:37PM

Earlier this year, we brought you this story about Green Lake’s four bomb shelters.  The biggest, under I-5 at Weedin Place NE, has gotten some attention in the press lately.

In April, “Mossback” Knute Berger wrote an excellent piece about the I-5 bomb shelter on Crosscut.com, and last night (May 11, 2010) KOMO aired this look inside:

Many thanks to My Green Lake tipsters Nic George and Daniel for drawing our attention to these two mentions of our neighborhood in the media.  Have a tip?  We’d love to hear from you.

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What do you think? (5 Comments)
  • http://twitter.com/lukobe Benjamin Lukoff

    Wow, I had no idea the place was so big! Lucky her. I'd love to visit someday… this place should definitely be preserved. What great archival footage, too!

  • seattler0cks

    I'm somewhat surprised this space hasn't been converted to some other use, unless the cost of getting it up to spec is too much or the overhead freeway poses a risk. Keeping it in its current state, where its history is told every 5 or 10 years in an occasional news story and it attracts weeds, rodents and graffiti, seems a waste. Is anyone aware of efforts to convert this space?

  • seattler0cks

    I'm somewhat surprised this space hasn't been converted to some other use, unless the cost of getting it up to spec is too much or the overhead freeway poses a risk. Keeping it in its current state, where its history is told every 5 or 10 years in an occasional news story and it attracts weeds, rodents and graffiti, seems a waste. Is anyone aware of efforts to convert this space?