Reed, writing 35 years ago, explains why forcible eviction might prove difficult: Ivory, a 42-year-old street performer and bamboo craftsman, says he's three months behind on the rent. His 900-square-foot hideout is impervious to storms, radiation, civil unrest, and Jehovah's Witnesses, and it also appears to be landlord-proof. Timothy Ivory reckons he's the last Miamian still living underground in the Atomic Age. Today the subterranean safe houses are forgotten oddities, mostly sealed up and grown over with weeds. One hundred others were built secretly in back yards from Homestead to North Miami, civil defense officials estimate. He's the latest lucky local to discover Miami's best-kept real estate secret - a three-room, Cold War bomb shelter hidden beneath Coconut Grove that rents for $600 per month.Ä«etween August 1961 and January 1962, Dade County issued 143 building permits for family fallout shelters. The things that worry normal people don't apply to Ivory. Hurricanes? Hah! Home invasion robbers? Tee-hee! Noise pollution? Heat waves? Third World tyrants with nuclear weapons? Wahoo! Whenever Timothy Ivory reads a newspaper, he starts to laugh.
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