Jacksonville was the hometown of his wife Irene, whom he married when he was 81 and she was 80. He was 95.Ĭarver said he lived there for more than three years. 25 at Brookdale Southside, a senior-living community in Jacksonville. His daughter, Dot Carver, 61, said he was just doing his job, as ordered, and after that one was over he moved on to the next.īlakeley died Oct. Blakeley - everyone called him Bob - designed those iconic emblems of the Cold War (with help from his children) in 1961, as part of his duties at the U.S. When Dot Carver was a girl, she and her brother played a game in the car on long vacation trips with their parents: How many of dad’s signs can we find?Īfter all, they seemed to be everywhere, back then.ĭad’s signs were yell0w-and-black, and each was emblazoned with three upside-down triangles aimed at the ominous words below: “FALLOUT SHELTER.” And each sign had arrows pointing in the direction of a government shelter, where millions of Americans, it was hoped, would ride out a thermonuclear war that in the 1960s seemed an all-too-real possibility.
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