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'Doomsday Motel' Dream: The Danvers Candy Man Who Hoped To Build Underground Bomb Shelter

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There are renewed concerns about nuclear weapons around the world that may be causing some baby boomers to recall the days of in-home fallout shelters. At that time, a Danvers candy man, Galo Putnam Emerson, dreamed of preserving humanity from atomic annihilation in a so-called "Doomsday Motel."

This segment aired on March 2, 2017.

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