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The Operations Room was the central operations area of the EOC. This is the largest room in the shelter. During my last trip in 2003 the walls still had all of the maps and chalk boards that were originally installed when the shelter was built. The city maps were so old they didn't have neighborhoods built after the early 60's. Some of the pictures were taken with flash and some without flash (It took us a while to find all of the light switches). All of the photos on this page were taken during my first trip in 2001.
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This is the operations room looking back towards the communications room wall and the south outside wall of the shelter.
The dark square on the wall in the far corner is an air vent from the comm. room.

This photo is was taken coming through the door from the entry hall into the operations room. That's the door from the front entry hall on the right in the photo.
 

This photo is looking towards the east wall of the operations room. The mechanical room is on the other side of the far wall with the sliding chalk boards. The door to the outside entry hallway is on the left in the photo.
 

This photo was taken looking back towards the front entry hall doorway. The aluminum doors that make up the far wall divide the dormitory and radef operations area from the main operations room. The dark square next to the entry hall door is another air vent from the communications room.

Operations Room Details

Here is the Emergency Log board. There are still entries written on it from a practice excercise long ago. Some of the entries are "Naval Air Station Dallas, Carswell Air Force Base, General Dynamics, Texas Instruments and Power Plant."
 
 

This framed drawing on this door is the same functional layout drawing I have copied on the EOC Main Page of this section. I know you can't make out much in this photo but my primary interest is the fallout shelter sign decals on each corner of the frame. Pretty cool. The hallway to the mechanical room, kitchen and outside entry is on the left in the photo.



The very first time I visited this EOC shelter was when I was very young. I think it must have been a school or Cub Scout trip to the planetarium in the Science Museum in the above building. The EOC was open to the public and you could simply go down the stairs and check the place out. I had a vivid memory of fallout shelter symbols being on the map frame corners. For some reason I remembered the symbols being on all of the maps. When I first walked into the operations room in 2001 the first thing I did was look at the map frames for the symbols. When I didn't see the symbols on the map corners I was a bit dismayed thinking I had fabricated the idea in my mind. When after looking around the place I spotted these (see above photo) on the layout drawing frame I was relieved. I did see them when I was a kid after all. I still have a foggy memory of the place in it's fully outfitted glory. I still remember the operations room arranged with desks and telephones. I also remember going down the entry stairs past the large "Dallas Civil Defense Emergency Operations Center" sign. Obviously that experience eventually led to the creation of this site.


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