26 January 2015

Alcatraz Island

 Riding the ferry to the island,
the only way to get to the island.



Social Hall & Military Post Exchange 




 Home for each Prisoner


 Exercise Yard



The small hook in this picture is for the keys of the guards on the prison floor. If there was a problem with the prisoners, the guard could put his keys are the hook and they would be pulled up into the gun gallery where other guards were on duty and away from the prisoners.

 View of San Francisco from Alcatraz


The Cafeteria

 The military base layout.


The old military barracks down by the harbor.
Alcatraz was a military base before the prison was built on the higher part of the island.

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