Daphne's Live Diaries: Discover Alcatraz , of the Rock

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Discover Alcatraz , of the Rock - The Beauty of SFO

The View of San Francisco

Discover the Mysteries of Alcatraz

Alcatraz Island

Inside the Alcatraz's cells

Federal Prison - era escapes of notorious criminals (1934 - 1963 )

Coit Tower - Telegraph Hill


Embarcadero - the city's east - facing waterfront , with its vintage finger piers and views of SFO		- The Ferry Building

Telegraph Hill

The View of Coit Tower , San Francisco

The View of San Francisco

San Francisco Bay

Bay Bridge

Alcatraz Island - the subject of many movies and books , Alcatraz has become a symbol of America's dark side , From fiction rather than fact , we have stories of the prison and of some of the men who lived in its cells .
To discover some of Alcatraz's true stories and explore the island's mysteries . For it does indeed have a mysterious presence , one shaded by the uses to which socity has put it . This island in the heart of San Francisco Bay , just a mile and a quarter from the sights and sounds of one of the world's most beautiful cities , has been used for a fort , a lighthouse , and a prison . Today , it is one of the national parks at the Golden Gate .

During the Great Depression of the 1930s , the newly created Bureau of Prisons become interested in the island as a place for a high - profile , maximum - security facility . Transferred from the War Department to the Department of Justice . Alcatraz reopened in 1934 as a federal penitentiary of the 1,545 men who did time on Alcatraz , only a handful were notorious , of the 14 attempted federal prison - era escapes . There were no executions on Alcatraz , although there were five suicides and eight murders .