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Binder   |   Allan R.May   |   Rick Mattix   |   Robert Gallo as Al Capone   |   Mr. Joe Walters   |   Gangster articles   |   Newspapers of the day   |   Newspapers part Two   |   Newspapers Part Three   |   Newspapers Part Four   |   The Green Mill   |   Colosimo's   |   Alcatraz   |   Alcatraz Part 2   |   Al Capone goes to Baltimore   |   Gangster sites today   |   Gangster Sites part 2   |   Dead Gangsters   |   Origins of the Scars   |   Collecting Al Capone?   |   The truth about Al Capone's signature   |   Al Capone and other Gangster related books   |   In Memoriam   |   Links   |   Contact Me Alcatraz Part 2 Sterile supply shelves. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Downstairs back to the cell blocks and onto the library down this corridor. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) The library. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Looking at the library. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Door to library. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) From inside the library. Al loved to work here. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Remaining book shelf. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Gated area in the library. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Back out of the library and out to the prison yard. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Cell block exit to the prison yard. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Exit from outside cell block. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Stairs leading down to prison yard. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Prison yard. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Looking up to the prison cellblocks from the yard. Inmates used to sit on the stairs. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Water tower. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Inmates would play baseball. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Alcatraz baseball field. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Yard exit leading down to work buildings. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) View going down to work building would make any inmate nuts. San Francisco in the background. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Walkway to work buildings. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Later work building. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Photo of work building in use as above photos. Bathrooms in work area. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Broken glass windows during Indian 1970's island occupation. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Old equipment used in work building. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) More bathrooms. Not much for privacy. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Clothes washing machines. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Washing machine or possible centrifugal wringer. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) industrial clothes dryer. Inmates would wash and dry clothes for the U.S. Army. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) More equipment. (Photo Mario Gomes collection)  Work building offices. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Smoke stack. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Industries building at the far end of the island situated on a cliff. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Due to the deteriorated stairs the public cannot go in. We did by special arrangement and via a ladder. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) One of the remaining buildings on Alcatraz where inmates once worked. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Old industries building (Photo Mario Gomes collection) What a view! Must have been depressing for alot working here. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Made up caves. This I was told was made for a movie. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Water and steam pipes. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Electrical power house. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Powerhouse that made equipment work. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Generators and compressors. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) (Photo Mario Gomes collection) San Francisco in the distance. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Solitary confinement. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Solitary confinement looking out. Once the door closes, it is complete darkness. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Back out the control area. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Leaving the main entrance. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) Leaving the island. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) My last view of Alcatraz. The island prison at dusk. (Photo Mario Gomes collection) I highly recommend the following excellent works for further reading on Alcatraz. - ALCATRAZ - A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years by Michael Esslinger Alcatraz - A Definitive History of the Penitentiary Years is a comprehensive reference with 451 PAGES of historic photographs, documents, and information that breaks away from traditional tourist style books. This book is the result of years of intensive research, and navigates the Island's history through rarely seen documents, interviews, and historic photographs. This newly released book has received rave reviews from both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. Available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com Letters from Alcatraz features an impressive collection of original correspondence from inmates both on-and-off the Rock. Their letters capture the true essence of life in prison, with fresh and historical insights to their sufferings and occasional triumphs. It is a finer example of history from one of America's most historical treasures. This rare collection features many never before published personal letters from Al Capone, George Machine Gun Kelly, Robert Stroud - the Birdman of Alcatraz, Alvin Karpis, Henri Young, John & Clarence Anglin, Roy Gardner and numerous others. Capone: Life Behind Bars  Mark Brown's wonderful book on Al Capone is a selection of more than 3000 original documents that exist in Al Capone's public record, showing how Capone was seen by his contemporaries, family, the legal system, and ordinary citizens. Available at Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. See also his excellent low priced Apple app called Capone Behind Bars at itunes Al's Alcatraz Mugshot. ( By Special permission of author Mr. Michael Esslinger). My mugshot at Alcatraz First Posted April 2008