Alcatraz Island - Inside The Notorious Prison / Al Capone Jail Cell & Self Guided Tour Of The Rock
A visit to Alcatraz Island in San Francisco California . Took a short cruise on a boat over to the famous prison property . Wandered around the area and inside its walls .
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today's adventure brings us to a very
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rainy and traffic filled San Francisco
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California
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this is the destination at least a
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starting point here 33 watch out he's
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getting loose climbing over the barbed
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wire in order to get across to the
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island we got to take this boat cruise
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ship of sorts
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in 1995-96 michaelbay woke up one day
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wanting to make the world better and he
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thought you know I in order for the rule
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to remember me I'm gonna make a movie
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none other that the man the myth not the
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legend Nicolas Cage and cannot Sean
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Connery right yeah
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welcome everyone Adam the whoo here I
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have successfully made it to Alcatraz
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quite possibly the most famous prison in
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the world this is something I've wanted
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to do for a heck of a long time made
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very popular through books TV shows and
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history specials always been fascinated
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by it and now I'm here I'm gonna wander
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around and explore I'm gonna biting you
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to join me shall you if you were to
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escape its walls which would be very
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difficult
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you would have to swim across the very
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chilly waters for quite a ways to reach
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land different eras of the island and to
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preserve history they have left some of
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the graffiti up on the water tower
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during one of those periods of time when
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it's at abandoned was taken over for a
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bit there goes the tram up the hill it
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would be very convenient if you don't
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want to climb the steepness of that road
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according to the placard in 1970 this
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and a few other structures on property
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were burned there's still a little bit
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of the walls left however even had an
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active power plants and check out the
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roof they spelled it out for air traffic
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to know exactly what they were flying
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over
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there's a guard watching from up there
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some of the original broken glass still
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behind those bars and the sign still
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remains the daily routine consisted of
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waking up at 6:30 a.m. he had some
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breakfast than a work detail then a few
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other things you had a rest period lunch
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around 11:40 then out to the recreation
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yard then a little bit more work supper
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at 425 returned to cells final lockup at
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450 lights out at 9:30 after the inmate
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count was completed quite a view through
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these windows as well as I stick the
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camera up to the dirty glass and peek
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out you will notice a very iconic San
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Francisco structure there in the
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distance speaking of views if you were
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working here in the electric shop get a
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pretty good one of the bay used as a
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library in the early 1900's this first
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building closest to me and the one
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connected was a schoolhouse for a little
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bit for a short while some of the areas
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are under renovation for future
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enjoyment
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wasn't just the inmates who resided here
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but also the guards their families and
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sometimes even children were roaming
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right around in here even though the
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most epic view of the city is probably
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from up top that lighthouse but this
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one's not too shabby either
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Wow take a look at that that's awesome
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the hustle and bustle of a major
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metropolis happening just in I shot
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it's a pretty nice skyline quite a bit
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of rubble here at the bottom level I
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think it's time to start heading upward
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towards the top its original use was for
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storing gunpowder but later on it was
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used as a morgue up until 1963 that's
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where the bodies would have lain in
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preparation right there on that slab
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alright it's now time to head into the
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main prison the rock break the rules you
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go to prison break the prison rules go
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to Alcatraz
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appears to be sleeping down there a
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little slumbering is going on all his
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personal items up on the shelf looks as
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if this cell belong to an artist of
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sorts see his work scattered all through
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the room and on a much smaller scale
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these shelves are empty but there is a
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watercolor set down here next to the
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mattress
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some of the famous inmates the mountain
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the more up Robert Stroud he was the
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Birdman correct that's right it's a
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famous Birdman of Alcatraz and then we
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have George Kelly here he was another
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one that's very notable and John Anglin
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yeah he pronounces on yet John Anglin
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Clarence Anglin and Frank Morris here
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and they were the ones who escaped
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correct yeah remember we haven't been
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did he visit Faison whether or not they
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actually
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getting out if anybody's watching and so
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are these so if you find them you're
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getting three million dollars oh there's
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a free there's a three million dollar
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reward you got it for these gentlemen
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right well they're not gentlemen but
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these three guys well either way they
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certainly earned their keep at the
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mansion yeah most people find out the
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phone person
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yeah I'd first I completely missed him
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that's okay you're the first
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I got overly excited about the Birdman
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yeah yeah that's all good and even
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though he was he loved he loved birds he
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did not like people well he was willing
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to go look at their diseases he also
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didn't really mind that they made a mess
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in the cell bank in Leavenworth he did
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not keep her there no but when it came
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time for some people trying to appeal to
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him getting out of prison because of his
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bird research he basically said well no
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all my researches were rendered invalid
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because the penicillin you put them in
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whichever cell you need to and if it's
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empty
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bureaucracy decays decision to never
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sell I will which is useful because you
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don't know which pieces would go well
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together push them to just stop travel
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when they began third or what happened
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there and then you go look at the detect
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ourselves he so will be the open tell
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you see up on the sanatorium was just
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informed that the only open cell on the
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second level of this section notice how
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they're all closed except this one this
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belong for a very short while to Al
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Capone he was moved around a lot but
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they can confirm that this one open cell
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Capone spent a little short tenure and
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while here at Alcatraz you were to enjoy
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a meal from the kitchen here in 1963 to
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21st of March to be exact you would have
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tried cereals steamed wheat scrambled
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eggs fresh milk stewed fruit toast bread
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butter but even some coffee yeah look
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again the knives right there
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the knives are they removed the knife he
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does Keith steel yeah it's an illusion
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sweet it's just it's just plenty just
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paint there's no real weapons or knives
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in that kitchen which makes it very
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difficult for cutting up these
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vegetables and fruits from this angle I
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have a good view of the Golden Gate
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Bridge but if you were down there
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playing horseshoes against that wall you
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would not be able to see over it to get
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the quite perspective only from up here
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in the mess hall can you can you see it
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if you ended up in solitary confinement
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you wouldn't be in one of those cells
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but one of the lower-level ones with
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extra doors that close in around the
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bars which makes it very dark back in
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here once these doors are closed it
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would be very hard to see and there
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you'd be at one with your thoughts in
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the shadows for a very long period of
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time to be tough to deal with to make
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things more convenient there is a
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cut-off that you can walk through wait
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wait a second
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no the cutoff okay the cutoff then cut
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off you had a visitor you would show up
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to these windows and look through this
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glass say family friends relatives
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lovers come see you would talk to them
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through a hole similar to this one they
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would be on the opposite side
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right there this is the creepy hallway
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located between the two cell blocks so
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on the left and right would be where the
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inmates are and this is just pipes and
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darkness stretching as far as the eye
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can see the control room everything
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dated back to a former time period
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including this thermos the microphone
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check out that pack of camels there on
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the counter perspective from the top of
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the hill
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pan around very slowly a boat in the bay
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the cityscape of San Francisco
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definitely a cool experience standing up
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here I don't just mean the crisp air
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that isn't how blowing in my face just
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mean they it's awesome
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being here this is one of those places
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you always hear about so different never
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really know if you're gonna make it in
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your lifetime and I did pretty awesome
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faintly shown on this weather-worn
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placard the wardens house of what it
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looked like then versus what it looks
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like now the structure still here and
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they've also placed a little garden area
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you certainly had a pretty good view
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from up here there's this fireplace
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where you would have a nice little blaze
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going on those chilly evenings
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circa 1952 this model is 1/32 size get
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the layout of the land from a bird's eye
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perspective a vast amount of merchandise
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is available in the gift shop as well
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everything to your heart's content some
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sticker sheets old school pennants even
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some children's books and puzzles for
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$11.95 take home an inmate cup put it in
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your cupboard
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wet your whistle
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former inmate William Baker is here
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signing copies of the book he wrote
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about his experiences at the prison this
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represents this most heavily armed
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period from 1865 to 1868 a hundred and
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eight guns were mounted all around the
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shoreline some cannon powder cannonballs
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at some of the period era wardrobe we
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did it we're now officially Junior
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Rangers how do you feel I had the powers
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already going to my head I bet some of
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the prisoners wish they could have
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purchased us and use it erase your
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mistakes
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notice the name of this barge
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those from the mainland to the island
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nicknamed solitaire
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Buddha's rocking back and forth
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upholding the camera still to see its
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way in there
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gotta get your sea legs stand on this
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thing
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back and forth there goes a bird
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there comes a bird
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robert stroud would be proud there is
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one random wave making its way directly
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towards us
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look it's like it's not stopping it's
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like it's just a random wave in the bay
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after getting off the ship there are a
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couple other displays and a little bit
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more information here some of the escape
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attempts one of them
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the inmates use this fake head to
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pretend that they were in their cell
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when in reality it was just a it was
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just a fake head a much larger model up
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here on the mainland pretty cool of
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course the building there on the far end
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is now abandoned as is this gutted by
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fire and the warden's residence right
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there in the center of your screen also
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just a shell of what it once was
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as well as all these structures here
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towards the front that was all the
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rubble you can see up there on the side
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of the hill interesting fact the last
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convicts were taken off March 21st 1963
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Escape from Alcatraz happened
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don't pay any attention to them they
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look very very closely the lighthouse is
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quite operational faintly see it wait
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for it wait for it
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who went by one more time wait for it
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just way of there goes
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how's it going don't be shy look come on
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don't be shy go say hello
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everyone's watching say hi
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there you go but look at me when you
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talk look atlook this direction cameras
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over here repeat yourself
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don't look at the sea lions look at me
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No
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camera-shy what are you up to today just
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hanging around I'd like to say anything
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to the camera
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everyone's watching say hello say
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something no don't shake you don't want
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to say anything that was a no huh
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notice the name of this barge that goes
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from the mainland to the island name
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solitaire solitaire I can't talk