It does seem as if when your trying to relax while one is on vacation you never really do or at least the very thinking process is there when you get up early on a Sunday morning to float your way to your next destination which turns out to be this very place between pier thirty three and a whole lot of
sea water. It is better known as the most inescapable prison from nineteen thirty four till it's closure in March of nineteen sixty three. We all got up at six and Bryce had been our chief of making breakfast in which we all yet enjoyed of cheese and eggs and toast and a juice of our choice. We all loaded up into my sister Kylie's car and headed out for Alameda to see if we could catch the ferry boat going out to pier thirty nine out in San Francisco out near the coast guard ship dry docked there only to find out that their cruises didn't start till eleven in the morning for on the weekends. So we drove to San Francisco and found a parking garage in downtown, we then went over a couple of blocks to catch the upcoming BART and that was when in the station before it came I saw this awesome
billboard. I was of course hurt that in the end of the whole day with Kylie and her son Bryce that we couldn't attend both Alcatraz and that special Anime/Comic con but still we had a whole lot of fun at walking to pier to pier from one to thirty three and here is just what some the other side of the streets included which the building seen here
,is the Tri Trans American building. Also I got a shot of where one of my folks friends named Nancy worked while
living in this part of California before retiring to Cuenca Ecuador with her husband Richard. Once we got down to Pier Thirty three and waited to board our boat I took a few shoots of the model at the
port while Chuck and Kylie got some coffee before getting on and here is some of our crew saying
"Goodbye to San Francisco for a while." "OR WAS IT HELLO PRISON TIME???" Once we got on the Prison grounds I went a watched a short history about it's history besides being a Federal Prison in the start of our tour, Does anyone besides Chuck and I know that it was used as a fort for defending the west coast way back in eighteen forty six till eighteen forty eight it was a military fort to keep California from Mexico during the Mexican- American war. In Eighteen fifty nine till eighteen sixty one was a fort during that time the military had to fight to keep it's confederate soldiers locked up tight in a cannon fortified prison, before even our president Abe Lincoln had this in mind
of being said. It wasn't until nineteen twelve that military gave it to the state of California for their own means of use. From that time many crimes were on the rise because of the Great Depression. So the United States Department of Justice opened it on October twelfth, nineteen thirty three and in a few long amount of months into the year of nineteen thirty four it was given to Federal Bureau of Prisoners an given that it housed the worst of the worst it was a place no one ever wanted to be. Still while on tour of this place I gave in to being a prisoner myself
which as a good thing? The audio tour was neat we learned or I should say I relearned a lot of stuff since I was fifteen when I was last here at Alcatraz. We even got to see in the kitchen the meal for the last day the prison was opened
in March of nineteen sixty three. Oh yes as to was there really an attempted escape that was successful I guess for that very answer only one these wardens seen here
really knew that answer!. After that great tour we went to pier thirty nine and had a great lunch and then we saw this one man comedy act
and he was grand and funny all at once. Here he was tossing a marshmallow into his on stage help from the crowd.
To Be Continued....
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