The picture on the left, taken around 2011, shows an exterior Fallout Shelter sign on the Hayward Place side of 600 Washington Street, a multi-use building on the edge of Chinatown.
The picture on the right was taken on February 2, 2025, and shows the sign has been removed. However, the sign had just been there a week or so before this picture was taken, so the removal was recent and the sign remained into 2025.
600 Washington Street was once a department store and formerly the Cinerama Theater, which remains abandoned inside the building. There were once 3 exterior Fallout Shelter signs, one on each side of the building except for the rear. There were also several interior Fallout Shelter signs, at least two of which remained as of 2017. As has been previously reported, time and age are not kind to these signs and many continue to be removed. Since this site began in 2014, 40 or more signs have been removed in Boston alone.
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