441_4194.JPG:Paul driving us to Fort Mason 441_4195.JPG:Sea lions at Pier 39 441_4196.JPG:Sea lions at Pier 39 441_4197.JPG:Sea lions at Pier 39 441_4198.JPG:Peter at Pier 39 with Alcatraz in the background 441_4199.JPG:Alcatraz Island 441_4200.JPG:Peter eating ice cream on a cold, rainy San Francisco day
(Photo taken to match this one of him eating a root beer float at the Arctic Ocean) 442_4201.JPG:Paul and Peter being park service-abiding citizens outside the old rifle range 442_4202.JPG:The original name of the island, found at the back of the old rifle range
Alcatraz was named by Spanish Explorer Manuel de Ayala - Isla de los Alcatraces, Island of the Pelicans. 442_4203.JPG:Paul's Death Trap #1, inside the old rifle range, going down to a storage area 442_4204.JPG:Inside the rifle range building 442_4205.JPG:Me going down Paul's Death Trap #1 inside the old rifle range 442_4206.JPG:Paul and I at the bottom of Paul's Death Trap #1
You can see the solid construction of the old fortress in the archway to the left, compared with the often flimsy prison building walls behind me 442_4207.JPG:Facing the Officer's Club.

From the NPS website: "The Alcatraz Post Exchange (PX), or "Soliders' Clubhouse," built in 1910, was the local general store, a place for soliders and their families to buy food and personal goods. When Alcatraz became a federal prison in 1934, the PX was converted into a recreation hall and offiers' club, complete with a dance floor, gymnasium, two-lane bowling alley, and soda fountain. The building was one of several destroyed by fire in June 1970." 442_4208.JPG:Flowers growing on the old Officer's Club building 442_4209.JPG:Paul's foot showing off one of the oil spills in an old oil bunker. 442_4210.JPG:Oil seeping out of the walls in an old oil bunker.

This was a fuel oil bunker for the generator, constructed by sealing off one of the many ammunition bunkers and filling it with oil. The oil seeped into the walls and then into the sandstone behind them. Now that there's no oil left in the bunker, the oil is seeping back out of the walls. 442_4211.JPG:Inches of oily water inside an old oil bunker 442_4212.JPG:Paul showing where the old oil bunker was discovered and the doorway chipped away 442_4213.JPG:Old power station/generator control room 442_4214.JPG:Old boiler room 442_4215.JPG:Old power station/generator control room 442_4216.JPG:Outside the boiler room, at the base of the smokestack 442_4217.JPG:Smokestack outside the boiler room 442_4218.JPG:Me outside the power station, with the Bay Bridge (barely) visible in the background 442_4219.JPG:Next to the water tanks 442_4220.JPG:Water tanks, rusted out after years of sea spray exposure 442_4221.JPG:Water tanks, rusted out after years of sea spray exposure 442_4222.JPG:Seagull outside the power station 442_4223.JPG:Photographs of the original fire truck 442_4225.JPG:Restored fire truck, currently in the inventory building 442_4226.JPG:Upper industries building

From the NPS site: "Many inmates worked inside the shop and industries buildings, where they might end up laudering prison clothes and linen, making gloves, building furniture, or working in the metal or carpentry shops. During World War II, the prisoners turned to defense work, making cargo nets for the U.S. Navy, manufacturing fatigues and khakis for the Army, and repairing the buoys that held the antisubmarine net across the mouth of the bay." 442_4227.JPG:Inside the upper industries building 442_4228.JPG:Photo of the upper industries building during the island's prison days 442_4229.AVI:Paul showing off the upper Industries building's echo 442_4230.JPG:Abandoned prison buildings: fun for the whole family! 442_4231.JPG:Stairs between the upper and lower gun galleries overlooking the interior of the new industries building 442_4232.JPG:Terraced garden looking down at the bachelors' barracks.
The rifle range is in the second level of the righthand barrack; we also went into the lefthand building (but I don't have any photos of that) 442_4233.JPG:Warden's home, burned out in 1970 442_4234.JPG:Sign near the warden's home 442_4235.JPG:Apartment building rubble on the Parade Field with San Francisco in the background. 442_4236.JPG:Cell 442_4237.JPG:Tear gas canisters, permanently installed in the dining hall ceilings 442_4238.JPG:The silhouettes of knives and other kitchen utensils let the guards know if any inmates had stolen anything during kitchen duty 442_4239.JPG:Peter in the citadel 442_4240.JPG:Graffiti from 1889 on the citadel walls 442_4241.JPG:Graffiti from 1889 on the citadel walls 442_4242.JPG:Graffiti from 1889 on the citadel walls 442_4243.JPG:Paul showing the layers of construction visible in the citadel.
The concrete is chipped away to expose the massive load-bearing I-beam, which also happens to be rusted through. Yay!
The jacks and wooden beams are modern additions to support the old prison foundation. 442_4244.JPG:Paul showing off some old graffiti to Peter in the citadel
Those rooms were used as storage during the fortress days and as solitary cells during Alcatraz's miltary prison stint. 442_4245.JPG:Some truly excellent stick figure death 442_4246.JPG:Cell block 442_4247.JPG:Cell block 442_4248.JPG:Cell block 442_4250.JPG:Paul showing off his Hard Rock Cafe dinner