originally posted 06 NOV 2014
Grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and, you know, when you grow up there, a field trip to Alcatraz was almost a certainty.
I was probably in sixth or seventh grade during this particular trip.
And, I'll just stop here and say that this was probably one of my
all-time favorite field trips. You can always see Alcatraz off in the
distance and, shrouded in fog, it just looks so mysterious.
So, anyhow, we're taking a tour of The Rock and hearing the stories
about different prisoners. They demonstrated the doors. They were
automatic. I'll be honest, I don't remember all the particulars but I do
remember the power going out while we were there and, yes, we were in a
cell. The doors were either already locked or locked with the power
outage. We couldn't get out!
I was a prisoner on Alcatraz! I thought that was cool.
The generators did kick in quickly or maybe it was just that the
power came back on. I was only imprisoned for a matter of seconds. And,
sadly, my brief stint didn't afford me the time to take up the study of
ornithology.
But, there's my story on doing 'hard time' in Alcatraz.
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