Alcatraz

Is something everyone should go see and visit.

Seriously.

I'm not messin around.

I have always thought it was cool.

Ya know the movie The Rock and I like to think

Harry Potter fashioned Azkaban after it.

Regardless Alcatraz truly is incredible.
You get taken on a long audio tour.

Everyone is walking around this prison with headphones on.

If you take the headphones off all you can hear is silence

and feet shuffling around.

A tad bit eery.

The above picture is what is left of the warden's house.

A lot of the guards and officers lived right there on the island.

The architecture and signs and paint is all from when it was open.

The gardens around the prison are beautiful.

And ironically has the best views of San Francisco I have seen!
This is called D Block.

When prisoners would get out of hand they would lock them

in these cells that had no toilets, beds, or seats.

They had to sit on the concrete floor in complete darkness.

Every few days a guard would come hose them off while in their cell

with a fire-hose to get rid of the waste.

You almost feel bad for the prisoners,

until you remember the killed people.

Then you just go... woa.
There have been a few escape attempts.

You can still feel the bullet holes still in the walls.

But three successfully escaped less than a year before they closed Alcatraz.

Clint Eastwood did a movie on it... Escape From Alcatraz.

I believe the prisoners survived.

Is that wrong of me?

Hey if you could come up with a scheme to get out of the worst prison in the country,

hats off to ya buds.

Hats off.

That concludes my historical tour for you of Alcatraz.

Live it. Love it. Be it.