Wooten Fallout Shelter

Wooten Fallout Shelter is a Tennessee historical marker in Shelby County.

Wooten Fallout Shelter, Lions Den, 4969 Lions Gate Drive, Memphis, Tennessee 38116

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In the early 1960s, Hoyt Wooten owner and founder of WREC radio station and WREG-TV built a Cold War-era shelter engineered to survive the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A single contributing building comprised of above and below ground sections, it was designed to accommodate up to sixty-five people in the event of a nuclear war. The fallout shelter includes a large recreation room, women's and men's dormitories, restrooms, a radio communication room, an industrial kitchen, a morgue, and storge spaces.

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1823 · Mississippi. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1886 · Arkansas. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1916 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1925 · Memphis, Tennessee (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

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Wooten Fallout Shelter

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