Episode 26 - Alcatraz Lighthouse

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Hi everyone, we are just popping in to say thank you to everyone that entered into our coffee giveaway and

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Congratulations to Emily not me

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For winning that giveaway and

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What else was I gonna say I

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had other things

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An announcement come on. There's oh, oh, I was gonna say also

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Thank you to we've had a couple listeners send us some stuff

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we got some just some fun goodies from NOS at light like pins and stickers and postcards and

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We also had another listener make us a couple of lighthouses and a buoy

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With the 3d printer and so they're like little desk ornaments

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Very cool. Vince is working on a another guest that we might have on the pod

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These days. Yeah couple of them coming up. So we're just really thankful. Thank you to everybody who is interacting with us

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I'm liking our posts and listening to our podcast. We really appreciate it. Thank you. Enjoy this episode covering the rock

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Why are we getting started here I think this audio is alright, I'm gonna start opening this bottle of wine

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All right, that work for you. Yeah, so today you gotta do the intro

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I don't know what the intro is how let me let me hold on see if I can think of it

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Hi everybody, I'm Vince and I'm Emily and this is the lighthouse lowdown

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Is it you're listening to huh you're listening to what is that? What is that? What did I do wrong?

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No, no, it was good. I was just there's very few parts to the intro

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Hi everyone, you introduced yourself

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I introduced myself and then it's the lighthouse load. Well, everyone knows that we're authentic because

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Every time it's time to do the intro. I'm like, what is it? I don't know. So I just came I just came through with the

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I like my high. I said hi. I'm Paul on one of the past

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because I was jacked on caffeine and

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You all got to be a part of that. Here's a sweet sweet sound for you. Oh

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Yeah, could you hear that huh you can hear that

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Now it's not so sweet

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I'm just ready for the oh, yeah. You don't want to do that because that actually bruises the wine

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It does

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Watch me do you think we're gonna care that much about this one? Yeah, this is local

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Watch us talk trash on this local winery. Well, that's in Herman, Missouri

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I don't know where that's at. I don't either I feel like I've heard of Herman maybe as

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like a nice town to go to for

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Bnbs and like a festival. Oh, it's not

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Is that Weston if they have a wider Herman? Yeah, it's like

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As fancy as you can get Missouri. Maybe it's down by Lake of the Ozarks

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I don't think you'll see on the bottle, but I'll look

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Yeah, you don't want to you don't want to pop the cork

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Like that yes, you do. That's how you live smell that cork

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So this is endless summer winery this is an elderberry wine

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Elderberry that elder elder

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Are we recording by the way, yeah, that's great and

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It's got a nice sunflower logo, which I'm sure you've seen before

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That's great and it's got a nice sunflower logo, which I enjoy and

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The year is 2015 produced in bottle by Hoover Ventner's

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LLC of Herman, Missouri. So I say all this like it's sponsored, but it's not got this through work. Yeah

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However, if anyone wants to sponsor us for wine, that'd be welcome as well

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Usually we do coffee as you've been a part of everyone who knows

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But today we're doing wine because it's after work. Yeah after work. I'm usually too tired, but I'm gonna rally

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For our I've noticed when I set my cups down during the podcast our hard desk

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Transmit some of the sound. Yeah, so I've selected a couple of soft bottom

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Yetis here, you know, I have some as wine glasses like

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floppy foam

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Coasters and I could just cut a circle and

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We could put our drinks down on those. Yeah, this is probably a sin

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For wine drinkers, you want this putting in a tumbler putting wine in a tumbler

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I just want a very small amount from what I smelled. It's not

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Well, we chilled it a little bit

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Oh

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On the nose it's a little

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Pungent I'm kidding

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Some fields of elderberry it is good

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It is good. I'm surprised. Sorry

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In the summer, it's pretty good. It's a very sweet

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But not sugary sweet. It's literally very sweet like

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It tastes like hanging out on a nice patio overlooking a field

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Tastes like low alcohol content some dirt

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But smells like high alcohol content it is

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12%

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It is 12% alcohol nice. So sorry for the big sidetrack, but that's welcome to the day

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Welcome to the show. Is that your history buoy? I have history boo

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First off look at this PowerPoint I've presented for you all the history boo for today

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be

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Actually remind me of Pink Panther the movie I

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Would like to buy

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And back. Yeah history buoy. Oh

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First off shout out to this image. This is so clear. Yeah, this is near the

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The Seward

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Seward Alaska where I will be soon, but I found this

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Buoy I forget what it's called the Cove. It's in I kind of got Alaska vibes from its overcast skies

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Half of the image is green trees and hills and the other half is snow-capped mountains

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gorgeous spectacular

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So I've forgotten I've officially forgotten where this is at. Oh

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But it's near last near Seward. It's not far and the reason it's on there is

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Tied to our history buoy today. Okay, history buoy is about the San Francisco

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49ers

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Why have you ever heard of them? Yes, okay

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I'm not sure we don't watch a lot of football

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So San Francisco 49ers is the pro NFL team of San

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Francisco the team's name came from the California Gold Rush gold seekers came to San Francisco during

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1849 so

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49ers comes from 1849 gold rush people which I

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in the research of this podcast like this episode I

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Think I did six or eight hours of reading on tangents and one of the tangents was the gold rush

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So I want to show you something. I'm gonna get better at controlling this

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I touched on it very lightly in our East Brother Island episode

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All right. I've already goofed up. So I have heard of the Oregon Trail, which is the North

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Orange route there for those who are viewing there's gonna be a lot of photos. I have 31 slides 31 photos

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So this is more of a YouTube post than a podcast. Sorry, I'm biased

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But we will challenge ourselves and we'll describe all of these

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Yeah, so folks have heard of the game Oregon Trail, which of course is named after the Oregon Trail

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You have died of dysentery. Mm-hmm. Always good news and

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So the Oregon Trail is shown starting in Independence, Missouri shout out that's not far from where we are right now

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Wow this moment in the riprap studio through Fort Carney, Nebraska Fort Laramie, Wyoming

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Over the past South Springs and then I don't know that area of the country the Snake River

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Which is in beautiful Idaho up to Portland, Oregon therefore named Oregon Trail. That's where it ends. Okay, that was a popular

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Trail for people who are traversing to go to the Gold Rush, which is course

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1840s late 1840s that actually was only a couple years which I did not know so we're gonna talk some more about that

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But the purple trail is the California trail as in Oregon Trail California trail

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I didn't know it ever existed and it ends in Sacramento, which is near that opening there that opening there is San Francisco area

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So the termination is in California

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So San Francisco is in that Bay as we talked about and then this shows some of the Gold Rush

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Mining sites and this is the mother load is the orange

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the orange here, so I

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You know, it's a history buoy. I found it really interesting

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Cry of gold rang out in Sutter's Mill in

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1848 soon after the newspaper spilled onto the streets of the East Coast

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Thousands of fortune hunters set out to round Cape Horn or traverse the plains on their way to San Francisco

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In the gold fields beyond I also didn't know that

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Rounding the Cape the Horn of Africa was I don't know if it was as popular

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But it was very popular for Eastern

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United States folks to go west like what do you mean like crossing the US on the Oregon Trail?

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Mm-hmm wasn't what everyone did people also took ships on the ocean around Africa to get to the west coast

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This is before the Panama Canal opened up. Yeah. Well, that's the whole point of the Panama Canal, right?

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But that's crazy. I didn't know that I always just thought everyone was in wagons. I didn't know there's any ocean going

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Gold seekers. Yeah, apparently there was a lot of them

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Which leads to a line house

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What? So the discovery at Sutter's Mill set off the gold rush

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1848 through 1855 a major event in the history of the United States after several vessels with adventurers

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Traveling by sea experienced difficulty in the waters along the west coast

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Another cry was heard this time for the construction of lighthouses to aid navigation in response

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The United States Congress passed acts in 1850 and 1851 that provided funds for eight lighthouses to be built along the west coast

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Nice. These are to be the first

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West Coast lighthouses seeded by Mexico 1848. I'm sure there's a lot of controversy around some of these things Mexican-American War

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1848 was when it became available basically for

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North American United States what would become United States citizens use and so almost immediately the area became to boom

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Wait, I'm sorry. Are we starting the episode or is this history?

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They tie into one another. Okay

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There's no you really threw me off with the 49ers

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I thought you were gonna do a history movie over sports and I was like, oh the name of the 49ers

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It's about okay. It's about the gold rush and the gold rush relates to the lighthouse

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They recovered right because the gold rush was the need the gold rush and all the accidents that happened on the water. I've caught up

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So this area became available

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And then immediately gold rush

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I also thought that was interesting. It wasn't in the middle of a normal available time. There was nothing out there

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and so Sacramento area Sutter's mill and then

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San Francisco as a port became into existence

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So that's where the big money came from. Okay now. Oh, yeah

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The Rock

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Sorry for that impression

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We watched this movie 1996 the Rock

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Two nights ago. Yeah, Vince didn't tell me anything about what was about what it called what it was related to

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He just said we were watching a movie so that we could

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Talk about it in our episode. Yeah

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This is a movie I chose because I thought it was entertaining a long time ago

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It has Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage and apparently Ed Harris

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And what year did we say it was is 1996 96? Yeah

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And so I thought it was interesting

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96 96. Yeah, and so I bring this up

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One because we got to see the film and we can talk about it. So they actually did film on Alcatraz Wow

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Not all of the scenes. They also did film in San Francisco

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So a lot of those like chase scenes at the beginning of the film were actually San Francisco, which which is what?

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The city's yeah in the city, right? So accurate to the set

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Oh, okay, which is cool because that's not easy to do. I'm sure so the the lenses they showed and everything that was the actual lenses

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No, oh

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So there's no in the film. There's the lighthouse we see at the bottom

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Yeah, which we'll come to know more about as Alcatraz Island lighthouse for those of you

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I haven't read the caption or the title of this episode

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The reason I know that is because I watched the movie

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Mm-hmm caught on to what he was putting down and then in the movie there are several scenes that capture the lower lighthouse

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Do you recall that? Yes doesn't exist

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They built they built the lower lighthouse for the film. Perfect. Well, and they destroyed it

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they literally shot it up and I

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Don't want to ruin the film if you haven't seen it

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The lower lighthouse doesn't exist

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The original lighthouse was lower than this one and we'll talk about why it's no longer there

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But it was demolished intentionally to build this taller lighthouse. Okay, so it's kind of like a fun fact for the movie

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There was a lower lighthouse, but they didn't exist at the same time and Sean Connery didn't escape from that prison

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Noted but it's a good movie and the Rock has been in many films

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So shortly after Alcatraz opened as a federal prison, I will talk about all the history

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But in 1934 was when it became kind of available for for these type of things

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For the prison for for filming. Oh, I see there's a long history, but 34 is when became available for filming its career

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For movies began so Alcatraz Island

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1937 Birdman of Alcatraz 1962

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What's another one point blank which I haven't seen but I guess it's action

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1967 I've heard that name before so it's probably a good movie

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The Enforcer

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1974 Escape from Alcatraz 1979 the Rock

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1996 and X-Men the Last Stand

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2006

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So it's been in a lot of movies. Yeah

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Just has the lighthouse made an appearance in all those movies or is it just the location the lighthouse?

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Yeah, the Rock the island and the lighthouse and all of those were I believe from my research

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Filmed at least partially on the island itself. Okay, so whether it's part of the prison that we saw in our film or the lighthouse or

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some other cool things that are there

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Coming to hear about them. So

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For those of you who are gonna go check out the Rock film 1996

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It's about a mild managed mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counter-strike when a group of rogue military men

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led by renegade general

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Threatened a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco

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Yeah, and you get to see how the gas affects people in the very beginning

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You know, we should probably it's a little triggering. This is one more thing. I want to show the end of the movie

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I'm not gonna tell you why but the end of the movie is supposedly set in Kansas

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Bologna, this is not Kansas. What is it? Oh, there's mountains. This is absolutely Southern, California because I

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Couldn't I could why would he choose Kansas if it just bothers me because no one's ever been to Kansas

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Kansas is in the middle of nowhere. There's nothing there. Yeah, we'll choose we could use anywhere, but we'll say Kansas literally

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Anywhere in the world. We're here. Anyways, we're here. So we're in Kansas. It doesn't look like this

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Mostly and then in this scene here. It turns the camera around for the next scene that shows him driving

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Yeah, and it's through I commented when we're watching it. It's through a lemon

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Lemon tree orchard. Yeah, and I'm like, yeah, that's California and then it shows more of these mountains and hills in the background

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I found it interesting

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They went all the way to Alcatraz and they're like, where can we find a field in a church nearby for a closing scene?

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Yeah, so I just don't say it's from Kansas. Yeah, could have just said

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California anyways that bothered me

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So now Google Maps Google Maps. So Google Maps. I'm now steering on screen

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We're gonna go to the West Coast. We're gonna go down to San Francisco

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Francisco we're gonna zoom in because I wanted to show you we have already been in this area. Yes, we have right up here

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No up a little further

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Pointy is yeah East Brother light station down down down the other pointy. Oh, I'm sorry near point

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San Pablo East Brother light station making an appearance. We've already covered him

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And we'll talk some history about the area. Here's Treasure Island, which was mentioned in the film. Oh, yeah here is Alcatraz

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I did see that when I was researching but like the lighthouse is so skinny that in their little cartoon depiction

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it kind of made me think of like like a needle like a

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You know lightning rod kind of thing or a smokestack

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Maybe think small lighthouse notorious prison. We should go there

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We should go to Alcatraz. Yeah, we're gonna talk about going to Alcatraz. So the lighthouse is

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Get back to my notes

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Let me say it this way a firm in Baltimore, Maryland named Gibbons and Kelly was awarded the contract to build lighthouses on the West Coast

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The contract sorry

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The eight of them. Okay, it included Alcatraz Island Fort Point Fort Pino's I think

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Point Conception point Loma

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Southeast Farallon Island and Humboldt Bay and one at Cape Disappointment in present-day, Washington

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Cape Disappointment is the only one I've heard of have we covered Cape Disappointment?

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Mm-hmm. Okay, I think I will in the future. It has an interesting story. I'm gonna take it from me. Well, we'll talk about it

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Supplies for the construction of the lighthouses were shipped around Cape Horn

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Well, what did you expect them to do they were shipped on the bark oriel which is a ship neat

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I like that name which arrived at Port San Francisco January 29th

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1853 Wow advanced party advanced party had already started work on the foundation of the Alcatraz Island lighthouse

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Which would be the first lighthouse activated on the West Coast

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What that neat this is the first lighthouse on the West Coast. Yep. Oh

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Wow

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It's got so much history so much happening and I this place is happening

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I was really confident when I said that maybe it was the first of these eight

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But I think it was the first on the West Coast. Well, you said earlier that it was the first eight

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Lighthouses on the West Coast and then if this is the first of the eight it's gotta be

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1853 is a long time ago. Mm-hmm. I'm saying I'm saying I'm picking up what you're putting down

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This is the original Alcatraz

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The plans for the for most of these eight lighthouses called for a one and a half story cottage with a tower protruding from the center

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Of the pitched roof all steps in the tower thus provided access to the upper story of the dwelling as well as the lantern room

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Kind of cool very nice. Is this the original that you have up? It is the original

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Alcatraz this is the lower lighthouse if you will, okay

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So so just to clarify the prison was not originally part of the plan, right?

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It was just a lighthouse was the original construction on that island because this looks like the original lighthouse is small enough

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That looks like it may have been swamped by the prison building precisely. Okay on the eventual case

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So I like this shape of the lighthouse. I really like this and I think it was mentioned

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I don't know if I have it in my notes here, but when I was reading about this

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It was hard to find this image. Shout out to United States lighthouse society. Mm-hmm

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They've got all of the documents you need

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But I mean this is a this is a sketch a hand sketch from 1854

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Which has all the views and I also like it shows this like interior. Yeah staircase

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These are like concrete plans. I think or brick plans. I guess it would have been like foundation stuff. Yep

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They wanted to bring some East Coast style like Cape Cod

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Architecture to the West Coast because it was the first lighthouse or at least among the first as we've established

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So they they had an interest in doing that. It's also a Boston, Massachusetts

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firm that won the contract through probably recycling some engineering

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Although this looks much

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It looks more unique than the early lighthouses. That's like it looks I mean it has its own style going on

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Yeah, it's not a cheap box. It's interesting. So

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The house is very in style around that time. Yeah still today. It'd be pretty sweet if you had a lighthouse protruding from your house

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Or a lantern room rather than a dream. So be like a reading nook. It was completed by July of 1853

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Okay, but it would be almost a year before it exhibit its light. Why so 1854?

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This might be an as-built drawings as it was completed. They get this I see

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It would be almost a year

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We'll talk about that, okay, I think I'm pretty sure sorry I have nine pages of notes

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So I'm gonna scoot in 1852 the year before the completion the administration of the US

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Lighthouses was transferred from the fifth auditor of the Treasury to a newly created lighthouse board

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Which after many changes through history is expressed today as the US LHS

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Nice, so I have an image of the board and that time

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Whamp whamp so I'm not gonna read these names, but

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1896 is this image so I

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Guess 40 years after I was referencing

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Sorry, but still a very old photo and kind of neat they were getting together to have these meetings

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one of the first changes that this body made was to order the installation of

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Fresnel lenses in all lighthouses. Oh, we're switching up just so everyone knows we're we're pronouncing

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Fresnel Fresnel lenses one of three ways that I've heard online and it's most likely

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Not correct. I'm going with Fresnel. So yeah for today. I am NOT ready to try and conform

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Vince seems to be ready to conform

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I'm gonna try I'll embarrass myself a little bit longer

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We're recording a podcast. We're full swing embarrassing ourselves

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All right, the thought before this time was that the Fresnel lens developed by Augustine Fresnel in France of 18

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1822 was too expensive for deployment in American linehouses the new lighthouse board concluded

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However that the superior performance of the Fresnel lens and the reduction in fuel oil that promised

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More than justified its added expense a change order was accordingly sent to Gibbons and Kelly the contractors

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Directing them to not install the intended argand lamps again. Yeah, remember I yeah, we'll talk about it

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We'll show an example here in a second argand lamps and parabolic reflectors

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But rather wait for the Fresnel lens to arrive. So that was why there was a year in between its conclusion

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Okay, so they had these lenses on hand it sounds like but they said well

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One of the first actions we're gonna take is to upgrade the lens without ever installing this

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so there is

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I watched a video on YouTube of a guy take a tour of the modern lighthouse

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And in the base of it at the base of the tower

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There was a lens sitting there that the tour guide in the video and the folks who were recording it didn't know history

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I wonder if it wasn't never deployed, but it was I mean they already bought it. They're gonna send it somewhere else interesting

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So it was a argand

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Lamp so this shows the reflector

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Literally a fuel burning lamp, which I think is super cool. Mm-hmm and

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Now it seems better

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Now it seems basic but at the time the 1800s getting something like this, right?

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Yeah, it was really impressive. Yeah, and they added this chimney later that oh, I didn't know that

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Yeah, so that because I said it was a problem the problem. Yeah, obviously this reflector would just

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encase all of the smoke from the candle

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Or the lamp and would just get soot really fast and so that it wouldn't have any reflective power

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so someone would have to come by and clean all of them and they'd have like

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20 something reflectors on one lighthouse

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So they made this chimney that comes out the top so where it's still something you have to clean but it's not like

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You know, it's not as bad. Yeah. Well, it seems alarming to have an oil reservoir there and screws that adjust the flow

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And you're supposed to refill that while the flame is running. I I would guess

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Yeah, or during the day or something sometime

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extra work, so

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light from a fixed third or

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Ferdor wine's starting to come

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What?

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12% hitting yeah, I can't handle I can't handle drinking my diet. Dr. Pepper and then going back to the wine

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It's a mix. Yeah, you don't want to mix them

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Light from a fixed third or third order Fresnel lens

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Fresnel lens. Oh my gosh

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Light from a fixed third order Fresnel lens was first shown from Alcatraz lighthouse on June the 1st of 1854

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With Michael Cason receiving an annual salary of $1,100 as the headkeeper and John Sloan being paid

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$700 as his assistant nice. It's not bad in us dollars today. Yeah, it's not bad us today. It's $40,000 and $25,000. Okay, so

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Pretty sweet place to be though. Yeah, and that's not at today's like

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Housing prices, right? Yeah, just inflation would have definitely been a livable wage

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The uh, sorry, no, it's okay and their housing is covered. So yeah, you know, they're making bank and they're right by the city

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Which will come up again. It's nice. Um, oh, but it's a island lighthouse. It is an island. They're being compensated for that

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I see I see it's a good spot

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The original lens had been used had been in use for under 50 years when in 19 what?

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What?

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When was the Golden Gate Bridge built? I don't know. Was it while this lighthouse existed?

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I'm assuming right? You can see it really well from there. So I was thinking it must have been fun for them to watch it be built

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January 5th of 1933. Okay, so way after

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Pretty neat good question. What about a fun time for them? The lens the original lens?

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Was there for almost 50 years which seems like a good service life to me

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Uh in 1902 it was removed and replaced by revolving two panel fourth order lens. Whoa

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Yep, it produced a white flash every 15 seconds

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The district officers recommended the change in the lights characteristic. They changed it so that it could be more. Um,

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I don't know what the original was now that I say that more more distinguished from the electric lights surrounding it. Okay, that makes sense

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I read that electric lights

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San Francisco was

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Electric lights san francisco was a money pit of a city when it like the gold rush

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Really, I would say through today. I don't know the city that well, but it's still quite substantial

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and so

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Electric lighting in 1902 was a concern for the surrounding area, which is awesome. That's a good problem

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So and then that's early the island itself. I assume had some lights too being the keeper's house

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So but running power to an island is also a neat idea and of course, yeah, and that's early for that. Yeah

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So I want to show you the original lighthouse. Okay, I have a photo of it in 1895. Yes what?

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Oh, wait. Yeah

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Yeah, that's pretty early for photo. Whoa, that's a great photo for that year

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I think I mean, come on

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I keep saying these things and now i'm like, are you sure i'm pretty sure this is from 1895

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Because the next photo I have is from 1906

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Oh

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Francisco

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All right. Look at that. Isn't it cool beautiful and what is this other house sticking off to the side?

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I don't know what that is. What the heck is that? Don't tell me that's the boathouse because it is like a gothic. It's awesome

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It's a dark gothic

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What is it called?

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Architecture just like uh when it's the opposite of something else

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Antithesis. Yeah

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The the lighthouse is really neat and it looks quaint. It's clean and pretty I don't I have so many questions in my own photo

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I don't know what these things are these folks folks are sitting on with the

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I don't know what that is

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It wouldn't be oil would it? I hope not cannonballs

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Yeah, and then

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I really don't know. I don't know what the house is either. They have two chimneys. Do you think that they made it a duplex?

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They did. Yes

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Yep, we'll talk about that. Okay. Yeah, and they eventually we'll also talk about it added more folks. Is that a tennis court?

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It might be

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What world are we in? This is the original lighthouse?

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That's what I can tell you for sure about this photo because you know nowadays they don't make a tennis

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Fence that fancy. Can you all the stories that we have told about lighthouse keepers about wikis and all like we watched the lighthouse

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Which you all probably already heard. No. No. Okay. Well, you'll hear that review

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Yeah, they did not have a friggin tennis court. No, no

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And they had room too

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Do you think that's a tennis court? I don't know. I've got to look it up. It looks like a

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It looks like a tennis court

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Like why would they have a net coming through the middle of just wide open space?

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Oh, do you think it's a cistern and the net has something to do with

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I really don't know

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What I can't tell you i'm sorry research falls short right now. Let's just let it live a lot live in live on

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In our brains as a tennis court

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so

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In addition to the light go check out this photo on our instagram because you can probably have the same opinions as we do

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Please just make up something and tell us what you think these things are in the photo. Leave a comment just for fun

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Yeah

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So in addition to the light the keepers in alcatraz island were also responsible for a fog bell struck by machinery

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Which was placed in the southeast tip of the island

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In 1883 the old bell and other material were sent to the navy yard at mare island, which I don't know where that is

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but

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A 3340 pound bell was cast for alcatraz island. Whoa, we're talking a big bell. Yeah

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big ass bell

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The new bell was placed in the new structure built for it

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And when conditions merited it was struck five blows intervals of 10 seconds. Oh, so it's their foghorn

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Followed by a pause of 25 seconds. So again pretty advanced for the time

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Yeah, it's mechanically struck which I assume involves a steam engine and

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well, they have all this money in san francisco and all electricity and the beginning of the

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Yeah, what is it 20th century 19th?

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No 20th century sure

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So this it's it's a mountain dew fun fact

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That I don't know if we cover later or not. So i'll make sure it's covered now

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This had a mechanical winding

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to rotate the assembly of the light the lighthouse the light

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room the lens my goodness

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They had to dig into the island to create a shaft to have enough vertical travel for the weight to travel down

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So it's like a pit that went down

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And in the future lighthouse they um dug off the edge of a cliff or maybe it's a little bit round. Well

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I hope we'll cover it. Okay. I'm sorry. If not, we'll have to come back. There's a lot to talk about

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Around the time that the lighthouse was completed military fortifications were also placed on the island. It's a tactical position

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the alcatraz

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To the to the bay, okay, the alcatraz citadel, which was a multi-story fortified barracks was finished in 1859

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On the uppermost plateau just north of the lighthouse. So they chose the highest spot and they built a new building

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That was um, what year was that?

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1859 you think these are actual cannonballs?

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That'd be a lot of ammo

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There'd be no cannonballs are not that big

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Well, then what are they I really don't know

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Torpedoes

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Okay, sorry keep going

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The first use of alcatraz as a prison which we talked about in the movie of the rock 1996

435
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was during the civil war

436
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:15,120
Uh, what happened was 39 people in san francisco were found celebrating the news of the assassination of president lincoln evil

437
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:16,480
Oh no

438
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,080
Yep, they were promptly arrested and locked up on the island for two months

439
00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,040
I did not find what happened after them after that

440
00:33:23,900 --> 00:33:25,900
1865 was the year he was assassinated

441
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:28,720
Okay nuts

442
00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:31,760
A second assistant keeper was assigned to alcatraz in 1901

443
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,800
Which also is when they got their new

444
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:36,720
lens

445
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,360
Yeah, true 1902 so 19

446
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,520
Or a different one the fourth order

447
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:41,920
Okay

448
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:48,160
A second assistant keeper was assigned to alcatraz in 1901 to help with the added burden of a revolving light and a second fog bell

449
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,280
That was placed on the northwest tip of the island in 1900

450
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:56,800
Okay, so now there's one on the southeast and one on the northwest. Yep. Ooh, that's neat. Nice symmetry

451
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,840
Eventually, i'll show you a map that covers the island. It's really neat

452
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:06,320
The head keeper was given four rooms in this lighthouse while the assistants had two rooms each and they shared a kitchen

453
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,280
Did any of them have families or were you not allowed to since it's a rock?

454
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,400
They did have families and it really was tight. Oh

455
00:34:13,440 --> 00:34:16,000
Wow, because eventually they needed to expand the lighthouse

456
00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,440
They did eventually. Okay for more room

457
00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:25,840
What's your question I don't have any okay, i'm just excited to be here me too

458
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:33,840
You Henry w young was serving as head keeper when the devastating 1906 earthquake struck san francisco

459
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,360
We already talked about this in east brother light. Yeah, and east brother light didn't really suffer much damage besides the

460
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,600
Fresnel lens

461
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:53,520
Uh taken a crack or two so what it was the damage here. Well first we'll talk about the log book

462
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:57,360
For april 18th, which is coming up reads

463
00:34:58,060 --> 00:35:01,040
5 30 a.m. Violent and continuous earthquake

464
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:09,120
Dot dot dot san francisco on fire. Is this the end of the world question mark insane that they would write

465
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,840
very similar like verbiage and

466
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:15,600
Verbiage yeah

467
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,600
words words english

468
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,240
Terrible seeing san francisco from here

469
00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,440
The earthquake caused a slight crack in the lighthouse tower

470
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:30,160
And it toppled the chimneys protruding from the dwelling's roof. Oh, no, so it was rocking. Yeah, which is insane

471
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,320
I bet those cannonballs were everywhere

472
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,360
No, they're heavy

473
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:42,320
So i'm going to show you an image from 1906 earthquake. Oh no everything that I have

474
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:49,920
Have found tells me this is a real image and there were several other images that are even worse quality and even more insane buildings

475
00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,480
Whole sections of the city are gone. Yeah, fires are enormous churches like

476
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:58,720
Anything that was really heavy stone appeared to be still be there what you can see

477
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:03,280
The brick is still there on the right the heavy stone like limestone on the left to be fair

478
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:09,040
Like what I read earlier is that the the earthquake is not what destroyed most of the city

479
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:14,080
It was the fires and this picture kind of shows. Yeah, the sky it's like the earthquake really didn't

480
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:21,360
Decimate anything like obviously there's buildings down and everything but the fire is just like all you see is fire

481
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:25,920
Yeah, I can see how they came to the same uh, describe it the same way from afar

482
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,380
Yeah, and that is kind of cool. It's sad but cool. I've never been to san francisco

483
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:34,320
I don't think but this you can see this big hill

484
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:38,640
I think this was in the chase scene like this area this neighborhood

485
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:44,160
It's big to I read it's big for tourism to like go on those street trolleys and see this area

486
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:48,240
Um, and the street trolley was a part of the film we watched as well

487
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,940
This makes me think of a princess diaries. Did they film that in san francisco?

488
00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:55,200
I don't know that story

489
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,180
Am I thinking of a john denver song san francisco?

490
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,080
Nice princess diaries

491
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,960
Hey shout out too bad. They didn't go to alcatraz island. They weren't cool enough

492
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:07,840
to film on alcatraz

493
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,120
So I don't want to brush over it. This is an awful event, but it was

494
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,200
We've already covered it. Um, it's just crazy. Yeah here shows

495
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:20,080
A map that I think you already showed this exact map. You stole my map. Yep

496
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,240
Dora would be mad

497
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:27,680
So, uh, this shows the fault line and some of the ratings so near san francisco

498
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,480
very heavy extreme

499
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:34,340
124 percent gravity acceleration

500
00:37:36,140 --> 00:37:39,140
116 centimeters per second of velocity

501
00:37:39,860 --> 00:37:45,860
For you nerds out there. That's nuts. That's a lot of movement. So and of course, there was this whole california coast

502
00:37:47,220 --> 00:37:49,380
Really awful, but here's a cool picture. Boom

503
00:37:50,020 --> 00:37:54,740
Wow, look at something slightly more positive. This looks a lot different from what we were just looking at

504
00:37:55,140 --> 00:37:57,940
So what year is this one? Well, i'm gonna keep going through my notes. Oh

505
00:37:58,340 --> 00:37:59,620
um

506
00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:06,280
Because I don't know the answer to that yet. Let me let me keep reading for a moment. So, uh in 1909

507
00:38:07,140 --> 00:38:13,460
Yeah, we just talked about the earthquake. Sorry 1909 the citadel was leveled to the ground and a cell house was built in its place

508
00:38:13,540 --> 00:38:17,540
Which is still present today. You've seen this cell house in the film. We'll we'll talk about it

509
00:38:18,180 --> 00:38:23,940
With its 600 cells the new prison was reportedly the largest reinforced concrete building in the world at the time

510
00:38:24,020 --> 00:38:24,820
Oh my gosh

511
00:38:24,820 --> 00:38:29,940
In fact in 1909 in fact the new structure interfered with the operation of the lighthouse

512
00:38:31,140 --> 00:38:36,580
So a taller 90 foot concrete tower was built just south of the original lighthouse using

513
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:42,100
$35,000 okay say something the the first lighthouse and this lighthouse have

514
00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:49,540
Extremely different vibes going on. They do this is definitely more of a security type. I mean like security vibe lighthouse

515
00:38:49,540 --> 00:38:56,900
Yeah, the other one was very homey and cute. I never thought about that. It looks like it matches the cell house though. Yeah

516
00:38:57,940 --> 00:39:02,500
The columns and another thing they're both beautiful. That's just uh, they're very different

517
00:39:02,580 --> 00:39:07,540
It's not like they took the lantern room off of that and just made it taller. Yeah

518
00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:14,500
It's like they definitely just re uh redesign the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's very neat and uh

519
00:39:15,540 --> 00:39:18,340
Something that's cool architecturally construction about this

520
00:39:18,340 --> 00:39:23,860
Is it was kind of one of the early experiments in building?

521
00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:31,140
To proof against earthquakes. Oh because it was built 19 years after the major earthquake that ripped the city in half

522
00:39:31,940 --> 00:39:32,820
um

523
00:39:32,820 --> 00:39:38,180
Another fun fact from our movie watching time that building on the right is the warden's house. Okay

524
00:39:38,820 --> 00:39:45,540
Nice. Yeah, and uh, very bougie eventually there's a fire and also very different styles those two houses

525
00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:51,060
It looks like a like a texaco style. Yeah, the one closest to us. The second one looks very um

526
00:39:52,340 --> 00:39:57,780
Yeah, texaco. That's cute. Yeah, like we're going to chile's and uh

527
00:39:58,980 --> 00:39:59,920
in

528
00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:05,060
Eventually in in the movie the rock the last scene you see of sean connery

529
00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:10,580
He's standing on a weird elevated platform in a window. Yeah walking across that's the building

530
00:40:10,580 --> 00:40:15,540
Oh, wow. No way. Yeah in ruins if you will you said there is a fire. Yep. We'll talk about it

531
00:40:15,540 --> 00:40:18,580
Oh dang it every time you keep dropping on the rock

532
00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:24,980
So that 35 000 we talked about it was approved by congress march 4th of 1909

533
00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:27,780
Thank goodness for politicians

534
00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:34,500
Right five thousand dollars approved by congress. Thank you congress cue the applause sound effect. I'm proud

535
00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:40,440
Of construction work began july 20th of 1909 good time to be constructing things

536
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,400
Uh, so only three years after that earthquake

537
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:50,280
The revolving fourth order lens transferred from the old lighthouse and was activated atop the new tower. Okay lens

538
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,600
Uh, that was december 1st of 1909

539
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,080
Got a lot of dates here

540
00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:00,040
Attached to the base of the tower was a commodious dwelling with two story wings

541
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:04,680
The private smaller wing was for the head keeper the two assistants shared the larger wing

542
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:10,200
Because it was no longer needed the original lighthouse was torn down by 1914 the fourth order

543
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:14,040
Two panel barber and bernard which I assume is the manufacturer

544
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:17,000
Fresnel lens was used in the lantern room

545
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:23,320
That was used there had been replaced by a six panel fourth order lens that produced a white flash every five seconds

546
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,640
so they increased the frequency and

547
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:31,480
And uh also increased the panels, which I think maybe is the same result six panels

548
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:36,360
Yeah, if they wanted to keep the speed the same they would increase the amount of panels to increase flash pattern

549
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,520
Interesting so one flash every five seconds

550
00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,360
Anyways, let me take a sip of oh I want a sip of

551
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,480
Now we're at 1913

552
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,800
The fog bells on the northern and southern extremes of the island were replaced with electric sirens

553
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:54,600
I can tell you they were not popular over time

554
00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:59,160
Interestingly the prison guards used to help the keepers in operating those fog signals

555
00:41:59,160 --> 00:41:59,660
Oh cute

556
00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:03,160
From their elevated lookouts in the watchtowers the guards

557
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,840
They could easily see when a bank of fog started to roll through the golden gate

558
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,240
The the lighthouse keepers weren't ever up unless they were maintaining the light they weren't at elevation so they couldn't see as well

559
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:16,600
So the guards would yell at them. Hey fog's rolling in

560
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:20,840
Yeah, well the guards are up there 24 7 the keepers are not up there 24 7 unless it's nighttime

561
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:27,080
Right and then nobody would be able to see if there's fog rolling in. Yeah, it's pretty pretty nuts

562
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:33,880
Um alcatraz served as a military prison until it was acquired by the u.s. Justice department in 1933

563
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,240
So then it became a federal penitentiary. So

564
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:43,080
I think because it became a federal penitentiary it became available for filming. That was what we talked about earlier

565
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:48,280
I don't really see that connection. Yeah, I don't either the lighthouse keepers worked alongside the prison

566
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:53,420
And then rather uneventfully until the light was automated november 22nd of 1963

567
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:59,240
I find that statement to be baloney and i'll tell you why oh one dramatic event that was recorded by the keepers

568
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,560
Was a bloody escape attempt

569
00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:02,840
Oh

570
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:07,000
No, now as the battle of alcatraz. Oh my gosh this

571
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,960
Pretty wild escape. Okay

572
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,200
escape from alcatraz

573
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,200
Bloody escape attempt like somebody yeah, like multiple people like it was a jailbreak

574
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:20,200
So it was the afternoon of may 2nd of 1946

575
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:27,320
bernard coy was his name an inmate was able to pry apart some bars and squeeze his greased body

576
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:32,280
Into an elevated walkway like that on the screen for all of you can't see

577
00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,320
Patrolled the walkway was patrolled by armed guards

578
00:43:35,720 --> 00:43:43,480
He overwhelmed an unsuspecting guards neck up on him gained access to firearms and keys and quickly liberated his accomplishment

579
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:48,840
The compasses he had planned this ahead of time. You know, i'm gonna try to reach myself up get out

580
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,280
Get a gun. Yeah, literally slid through the bars. Oh

581
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:57,160
It's gotta be he's gotta have like broken rib or something. It didn't go super well

582
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,720
So the inmates plan soon met a snag

583
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:04,840
However, because they were unable to unlock the door leading to the rec yard recreation. Oh good lord

584
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:09,000
So I want to show you the cell block. We've already seen the rec yard. Wouldn't that be closed off anyway?

585
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,760
So the rec yard the plan was to get to the rec yard. Here's our map

586
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:15,320
Oh excellent. So cell block center screen

587
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,200
Uh the rec yard is the far side and then down from the rec yard

588
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:23,240
I don't know if they were going to go through a gate or over the wall or what

589
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:28,040
They were actually going to try to get into a boat and the boats were stored down. I do see some little stairs

590
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:30,040
Yeah

591
00:44:30,040 --> 00:44:32,040
It's an incredible level of detail. Yeah

592
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:36,680
It's pretty cool. And this is san francisco or alcatraz island today

593
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,760
So this big dock at the lower side that's for boats that are coming to visit

594
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:42,920
We'll talk about tours and such that are available

595
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:47,880
Um, you see the warden's house now has no roof parade ground. There's the lighthouse

596
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:52,200
Yeah, I didn't understand parade ground. I think it's for training of the guards

597
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,440
Because it appears to be outside of all the containment walls

598
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:01,720
We talked about it in the or we heard about it the movie the atlantic

599
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,440
Or excuse me, the pacific is very cold

600
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:11,080
Uh, and uh, this is over a mile from the coast so it looks close, but it's not really swimmable

601
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,120
It'd be incredible if you could swim it let alone swim it as a prisoner

602
00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:18,680
Yeah, you'd be doing it as a small feat and not uh for fun. Yeah, so it was

603
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,400
Difficult to escape I think

604
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:25,160
Which is the cool premise of the movie we watched is someone who had escaped exactly

605
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:32,520
So the rec yard also fun fact, uh, you can go visit that on a tour and there's a baseball diamond that was there

606
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:37,480
Um for the prisoners. Yeah, so the prisoners were allowed out to the rec yard for some time

607
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Uh baseball was popular. I guess

608
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,960
There was a bunch of famous people. I think you don't want to give a bat to a prisoner

609
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:46,840
I don't know, but you have guns so

610
00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:50,200
The guards have guns

611
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:57,400
But to get back to the back to the escape attempt so Mr. Coy got the jump on somebody

612
00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,920
Eventually marines were called to help regain control of cell block D

613
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:07,480
Located just 150 feet from the lighthouse over the next two days gunfire was occasionally heard on the island harry davis

614
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,360
Uh was serving as the headkeeper at the time

615
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,800
It was likely that he penned the following account in the station's logbook

616
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,760
Which you don't usually talk about shootings going on drama. Yeah the the bad drama

617
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:25,320
1430 hours convict on the loose with submachine gun. Oh my gosh entire prison held at bay

618
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:29,240
Entire prison held at bay shooting is almost continuous u.s

619
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:36,680
Marines landed on north end of island fire again raging in cell blocks hand grenades being dropped through the holes broken through the roof

620
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:42,600
No way the prison is being reduced to shambles the nearly two-day standoff was over when it was over davis wrote

621
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:44,920
The end of 44 hours of living hell

622
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:48,840
How many people died? Uh, the six escapees were killed

623
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,600
During the three three of the six escapees were killed

624
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:58,040
Okay, two of the three who did survive were later executed together in a gas chamber yikes san quentin

625
00:46:58,520 --> 00:47:04,680
And their role because they killed two guards during the escape. The third survivor was given a judicial life sentence

626
00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:11,320
I was surprised. That's only six people six had escaped and they caused all sorts of havoc because they got they got hold of

627
00:47:11,800 --> 00:47:16,920
Guards guns. Yeah, I don't remember. I wish I did. I don't remember how many guards were killed

628
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:21,880
But more again, I went into some deep holes reading about this event

629
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,040
Yeah, this is in some way i'm gonna say it's awesome. It's not awesome. I'm gonna say it's awesome

630
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:29,720
But it's like the movie. So this was uh, i'm trying to remember the year

631
00:47:30,500 --> 00:47:33,560
1946 okay, world war two had just ended

632
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:36,200
World war two had just ended

633
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:43,800
And the guards were not doing well, uh, because the prisoners who couldn't escape the cell block, which is just crazy

634
00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:48,840
They had like machine guns and they were holed up and so they called some marines

635
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:55,000
And that's why it took two days a group of marines who had fought in world war two against the japanese

636
00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:59,800
They just finished. Yeah, but they they came and used tactics

637
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:04,280
They organized a plan and used tactics that they had used against japanese who were defending themselves

638
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:12,040
in similar war time and uh, it's a it's a story if you want to read about it, it could have been a whole episode, but

639
00:48:12,600 --> 00:48:14,600
um pretty

640
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:19,960
I mean to end the situation great. It's good for them. Obviously it wasn't a positive event

641
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:25,640
But I was like they literally landed u.s marines from world war two one year away from world war two's end

642
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:31,800
On this island to fight these prisoners. Yeah, and it's like it's all america. It's not a wars. It's not even a battle

643
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:35,240
it's just like prisoners we need you to intercept these people like they're

644
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:38,440
Basically terrorists, so super crazy

645
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:43,880
So I just wonder how they got control of the other three without killing them

646
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,960
So they had keys and they talked sorry i've read a lot that I didn't write down

647
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,840
The he got keys to the cells from a guard that he overwhelmed

648
00:48:52,920 --> 00:48:56,520
I don't know if he killed that guard or not. I hope not, but I assume probably knocked him out

649
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,920
I'm gonna say he probably knocked him out, but he got the keys and the keys were

650
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:06,120
I mean 1900s keys. They're kind of interesting looking but they weren't that complex like padlock keys

651
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:11,800
And then uh, he was able to release people that he knew he could trust to break out with him. He was all planned

652
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:13,800
and then um

653
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,800
Um got some guns

654
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:21,320
And they couldn't get out into the yard because it required a different key and they didn't think of that. They didn't know that

655
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,200
Uh, they didn't know it or they didn't think of it. They didn't yeah, you couldn't find a key to get out

656
00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:29,640
So they were kind of locked but they had a run of uh, the cell house

657
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:35,480
Yeah during their escapades. Did you read what they were guilty of that they were in?

658
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,680
I did. Um, one of them was guilty of murder

659
00:49:39,240 --> 00:49:41,160
Uh, so it's pretty serious

660
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,120
Others, I don't think were all murderers

661
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:52,280
Nothing noteworthy nothing I could recall murder for one at least it might have been coy the the mastermind of the plan but

662
00:49:52,680 --> 00:49:54,680
Not that big of a mastermind, I guess

663
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:57,160
I mean

664
00:49:57,160 --> 00:50:00,280
I don't know. I'm sure everyone's a good person at some point in their life

665
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:02,760
But that's a pretty rough situation to be killing people and yeah

666
00:50:03,320 --> 00:50:08,360
Have to cause the military to come in storm the beach again to take care of your situation. That's just wild

667
00:50:08,360 --> 00:50:12,120
So, uh, that's all I have to say about the battle of alcatraz but pretty wild

668
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:19,880
And the lighthouse keepers were running the light the whole time. Oh my god, they're like, all right tired of this

669
00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:26,840
That's enough. You've got to just be in hell. It's like it's escaped people with firearms on this island. You can't get off of

670
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:33,000
Keep doing your duties. Like we got it under control. It's like are you sure they're not gonna come out here? Yeah

671
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:36,920
I'll give them a prior warning. I'd be like i'm gonna get out of the way if they come running out. Yeah

672
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,000
I'll have you know

673
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:42,360
My life is on the line for the lighthouse but not for these weirdos. Yeah

674
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,400
That's obviously quite an unfortunate series of events

675
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,720
Now i'm going to talk about something a little happier just a little sad unhappy

676
00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:55,880
Is that not when the warden's house burnt down? Nope. What with grenades and stuff? Alcatraz island, baby

677
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:58,680
so uh this

678
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,580
We'll just get i'm just gonna say we're gonna get a little bit of a

679
00:51:01,580 --> 00:51:04,000
We'll just get i'm just gonna say we're gonna move on. Okay

680
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,040
We can come back if anyone has it

681
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,760
Oh nice heartwarming photos. This is ed

682
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:17,920
Your boy ed ed the murderer. No, that was coy was the last. Oh, sorry. I thought you said ed coy. No

683
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,960
Hold on now. I gotta check

684
00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:22,960
bernard coy

685
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:28,400
I was off by a lot bernie now. This is ed ed schneider. Okay ed

686
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,600
ed ed was a genial 270 pound man

687
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:37,840
He spent 28 years on alcatraz not as a prisoner but as a lighthouse keeper 28 years. Mm-hmm

688
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:45,200
He said one one point sure I could have transferred to other stations, but not anytime they asked me. I said no

689
00:51:46,640 --> 00:51:53,520
Schneider reported he told a reporter. This is one of the choice places not for them. I know he nodded towards the barred windows

690
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:57,120
But for me alcatraz isn't isolated. It's close to town

691
00:51:57,120 --> 00:52:01,840
So as a lighthouse keeper he had that in mind which again we've talked about further away

692
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:08,000
Rougher lives for them. Yeah, so Schneider arrived on the rock as first assistant keeper

693
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:13,760
Excuse me first as assistant keeper in 1931 and ended up retiring in 1959

694
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:16,400
So he was there during the Battle of Alcatraz. Wow

695
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:21,680
He was the last civilian keeper of Alcatraz Island light for many years

696
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:29,040
For many years, he acted as santa claus to some 70 children of the prison guards of the island and he fit the role well

697
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:31,840
in total

698
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:36,400
He fit the santa claus role well not needing a pillow or an extra padding

699
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:45,680
Brutal besides the Battle of Alcatraz another standout day for Schneider was when both of the station's foghorns quit in heavy fog

700
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:52,640
What brought shipping to the bay and a stop to a stop. Oh boy. He said I never repaired anything so fast before or since

701
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:56,000
He's like, I'm sweating

702
00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:58,640
So he retired um

703
00:53:00,080 --> 00:53:02,080
Yeah upon retirement which again was in

704
00:53:02,700 --> 00:53:03,760
1959

705
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:06,960
Uh, he had divorced in 1942 during his time on the rock

706
00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:09,600
He went to live with his sister in oakland

707
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:14,800
It's very sad, but on october 17th of 67 he ended his own life

708
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,800
Oh, no

709
00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:22,000
He left behind a suicide note that read I can't stand the pain. I'm slowly becoming a burden

710
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:23,840
that's

711
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:27,120
that's a steaming garbage pile I

712
00:53:28,240 --> 00:53:32,800
It's sad and he was a really loved man. It sounds like and I wrote this next part

713
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:36,320
He said uh, I said he served in world war one as a marine

714
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:42,560
Uh, and then he served in the u.s coast guard and the lighthouse as a second assistant keeper

715
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:46,240
He was promoted to assistant keeper. He was promoted to principal keeper

716
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,400
All of his united states coast guard dedication was at alcatraz island

717
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:54,880
Uh, it has been suggested that his role in life was to serve and to provide

718
00:53:55,440 --> 00:54:00,960
In retirement his joy of life waned until his time of death. No, he was missed dearly by his family

719
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:03,920
Yeah, that's so sad. Yeah

720
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:06,560
So I can understand that like your whole life has

721
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:09,120
He's always had a mission purpose. Yeah

722
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,880
He's always had the light to keep on and people and all those children

723
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:14,960
so

724
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,600
It's really sad that he uh ended his life

725
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:20,800
But he obviously was rocking his job

726
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:25,760
This is a slide also from a presentation by the us lhs

727
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:28,560
And a lot of these

728
00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:33,680
We're on lighthouse friends.com as well if you want to learn some more about ed. Yeah, so i'm going to show you another image

729
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:37,760
This is another image of the lighthouse

730
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,960
Oh cool picture. Yeah, you can see it's got quite an elevation gain

731
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:42,480
um

732
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:45,600
Being at that edge of the island. Those look like water towers. I never noticed those before

733
00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:48,160
Kind of cool

734
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:53,600
Following the closing of the penitentiary in 1963 alcatraz was declared a surplus property

735
00:54:54,400 --> 00:55:01,600
In november of 1969 a group of about 90 native americans landed on the island and claimed it as indian land

736
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,320
Whoa

737
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:08,960
Ha what is happening alcatraz island, babe. It's very strange

738
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:14,160
What yep, so i'm going to tell you the short version and then the long version you're welcome

739
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:16,640
So here's here's the short version

740
00:55:16,720 --> 00:55:23,120
Um over the next 19 months a varying number of native americans occupied the island on june 1st 1970

741
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:28,480
A fire destroyed the warden's house. Oh the keeper's quarters and other buildings on the island

742
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,800
It scorched the lighthouse tower itself

743
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:38,160
No further damage was done to the island when the occupants reportedly began stripping copper wiring and tubing from the buildings and selling it as scrap metal

744
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,880
a pre-dawn raid on june 11th of 1971 ended the occupation

745
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:45,840
That's bizarro. So

746
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:52,080
Feel free to interject of course. I I felt really negatively about that. Yeah, and I was like

747
00:55:54,300 --> 00:55:56,300
1970s we're talking about native americans

748
00:55:56,300 --> 00:56:02,480
Occupying this place. Yeah, so being surplus land to me. That means no one was taking care of it

749
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:07,280
There's nothing there and like we've talked about the government sees these type of places as a liability

750
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,760
You know, why do we have to take care of this lighthouse?

751
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,480
You know east brother light station is even the same they have people volunteering to take care of that and keep it nice

752
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,600
Yeah raise money. So I assume that's kind of the same story

753
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:22,000
So they just saw it as open land. I mean that no one else was using

754
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:27,440
But I did some more research because I was hoping that there was more to the story and there was

755
00:56:28,320 --> 00:56:30,320
How long did they occupy it?

756
00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:34,480
Not that long. Um, and I can tell you exactly. Gosh, they did a lot of damage

757
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,000
I think you'll I think you'll appreciate this further

758
00:56:39,040 --> 00:56:41,040
discussion so

759
00:56:41,040 --> 00:56:45,840
European discovery and exploration of san francisco bay area and its islands began in 1542

760
00:56:46,080 --> 00:56:49,040
I'm not going to talk you through that many hundreds of years. Okay, but

761
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:51,440
the mapping didn't happen until 1775

762
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:55,200
earlier visitors to the area were preceded by

763
00:56:55,840 --> 00:57:02,080
Native Americans 10,000 to 20,000 years before of course, these weren't native Americans, but they were indigenous people

764
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:04,640
Sometimes those are put together

765
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:11,440
But it's expected that over 10,000 people indigenous lived in the area before it was settled before it was discovered

766
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:15,600
And of course that was Spanish and Portuguese explorers came to the area first

767
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,360
so

768
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:24,880
So early use of Alcatraz Island by the indigenous people is difficult to reconstruct most of its based on oral history

769
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:31,040
But basically it was used as sorry. Go ahead. I was just gonna say but they did they did use it. Yeah

770
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:35,220
Oh, they did and it was mostly used for um ostracization

771
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:38,640
People who were outcasts or who? Oh, no

772
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:44,640
Yeah, they'd broken or violated a tribal law, right? They were a camping spot

773
00:57:44,640 --> 00:57:51,520
It was also for gathering foods, especially bird eggs and sea life, which makes sense. I was utilized as a hiding place

774
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,480
from the California mission system

775
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,880
so not all

776
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,120
Spread of new ideas is good, right?

777
00:58:00,880 --> 00:58:05,360
So once Alcatraz became a prison both military prisoners and civilians were incarcerated

778
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:11,280
Many of these were American Indians Indian people i'm going to reference that in the future Indian, but I mean American Indian

779
00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:19,040
And continued to be among the population of prisoners and disciplinary barracks on the island through the remainder of the 1800s in early 1900s

780
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:26,100
Saying they were among the incarcerated. Okay, they were represented among them. So on November 9th of 69 1969

781
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:30,720
The Indian people came again to Alcatraz their red book. They were red

782
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:36,320
They were led by a man named Richard oaks. So he was kind of the the founder of this occupation

783
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,720
He was a mohawk Indian

784
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:43,600
The group of Indian supporters set out on a chartered boat. So they they did it right, you know

785
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,560
They they planned it the Monte Cristo was named the boat

786
00:58:47,360 --> 00:58:52,400
To symbolically claim the land back for the Indian people on november 20th of 69

787
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:56,880
The occupation turned into a full-scale occupation which lasted until 71

788
00:58:57,520 --> 00:59:03,840
So I this is a series of occupation events that i've summarized into one. I just make it simple more simple

789
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:06,240
So it was planned by oaks

790
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:10,960
Um, and a group of Indian students a group of urban Indians from the bay area as well

791
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:18,800
Since many tribes were represented they came up with the name the Indians of all tribes, which we talked about as their banner here

792
00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:21,360
That was what was adopted

793
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:28,480
In the meetings following after oaks and his fellow american indians realized the prolonged occupation was possible after just camping there

794
00:59:29,280 --> 00:59:31,040
They visited the american

795
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,940
American Indian studies center at ucla

796
00:59:33,940 --> 00:59:35,940
Oh

797
00:59:35,940 --> 00:59:44,580
And they recruited Indian students for what would become the longest prolonged prolonged occupation at a federal facility by Indian people to this very day

798
00:59:44,660 --> 00:59:51,460
That's a long sentence. Wow, so 80 Indian students from ucla were among the people there was about 100 people total

799
00:59:52,660 --> 00:59:57,080
So oaks was the leader. He was most knowledgeable for being in charge of all the organization

800
00:59:57,620 --> 01:00:00,840
Um, and he was the chief of alcatraz the mayor of alcatraz

801
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:07,800
So once they had established themselves on the island organization began immediately. There was actually an elected council

802
01:00:08,200 --> 01:00:14,600
Um, and everybody on the island had a job. So security sanitation daycare school housing cooking laundry

803
01:00:15,080 --> 01:00:20,920
And they were all made by unanimous consent of the people. It's like a little country. Yeah, I mean super hippie, right?

804
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:23,080
Yeah, but kind of cool. Um

805
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:29,560
The federal government initially insisted that the indian people leave the island placed an ineffective barricade around the island

806
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:35,400
And just didn't stop people eventually agreed to hold to hold formal negotiations with the council the indian council

807
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:41,160
So from the indian side the negotiations were fixed. Um, they wanted the deed to the island

808
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,640
They wanted to establish an indian university a cultural center and a museum

809
01:00:46,600 --> 01:00:51,640
All along the island the government negotiators insisted that they could have none of these and they must leave the island

810
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:53,800
Wow, so early 1970

811
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:56,600
um the organization indian organization began to

812
01:00:56,600 --> 01:00:58,600
Oppose one another

813
01:00:59,160 --> 01:01:04,600
Um, some of the students went back to school which took away from the population and some went back

814
01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:06,280
um

815
01:01:06,280 --> 01:01:07,400
to their

816
01:01:07,400 --> 01:01:12,280
Other occupancies wherever they came from and other people came to replace them on the island

817
01:01:12,600 --> 01:01:15,720
The other people who came to replace them would cause a lot of problems. Oh, no

818
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:24,040
They came from hippie and drug culture is what was quoted. So the final blow to the leadership occurred january 5th of 1970

819
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:29,320
Oaks's 13 year old stepdaughter fell down three floors of the stairwell through her death. Oh

820
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,400
Her name was yvonne

821
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:32,760
Yvonne passed away

822
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:34,520
um and

823
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:41,800
In grief of that oaks left the island and so the two competing groups were kind of warring for control, which is crazy. This is you know

824
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:49,400
What a story old school stuff in like this is only like a year and a half that this went down all happening pretty fast

825
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:52,440
Oh, it's like it's like an occupy event. Yeah

826
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:54,440
um, but

827
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:56,680
based on tribal

828
01:01:56,680 --> 01:01:58,040
history

829
01:01:58,040 --> 01:02:03,320
So the federal government responded, uh officially by not interfering is what their official stance was

830
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:07,080
The fbi the police coast guard they all remained clear of the island

831
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:09,080
um

832
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:13,400
While it appeared to those on the island that negotiations negotiations were actually taking place

833
01:02:13,480 --> 01:02:20,200
In fact, the government was playing a waiting game hoping that support of the occupation would subside and those on the island would elect in the

834
01:02:20,340 --> 01:02:21,720
occupation

835
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:26,360
Those on the island had become so entrenched that nothing less than full title to the island would serve

836
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:30,280
You know, that's always a good story fully entrenched people in the meantime

837
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:35,480
The government shut off electrical power removed the barge which had provided fresh water to the occupiers

838
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:39,960
Oh, no, and three days following the removal of the barge a fire broke out on the island

839
01:02:40,760 --> 01:02:44,280
Several historic buildings were destroyed been helpful water would have been nice

840
01:02:44,760 --> 01:02:50,380
The government blamed the indians the indians blamed the government, uh for undercover government infiltrators

841
01:02:50,380 --> 01:02:56,540
Trying to turn non-indian support against them. Whoa, so it could have been an inside job. Yeah, I could have the new population

842
01:02:57,260 --> 01:02:59,900
Yeah, new population on the island became a problem

843
01:03:00,540 --> 01:03:04,460
Um fighting over authority general disarray. I'm fast forwarding my own notes

844
01:03:05,100 --> 01:03:09,980
Um, the government didn't know who they could even talk to anymore because there wasn't oaks anymore. They didn't have someone that could

845
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:12,620
Reach out to the clear as the clear leader

846
01:03:13,020 --> 01:03:14,060
so

847
01:03:14,060 --> 01:03:16,380
New problems came for the occupiers

848
01:03:16,380 --> 01:03:24,620
They needed to raise money to buy food and that's why they were stripping copper wiring and tubing from the buildings selling it a scrap metal

849
01:03:25,260 --> 01:03:31,900
Three of them were arrested tried and found guilty of some 600 pounds of copper they had with them, which is a lot

850
01:03:31,980 --> 01:03:38,540
That's a ton in early 1971 the press which had been largely sympathetic to this point turned against them

851
01:03:38,860 --> 01:03:41,580
Began publishing stories alleged beatings and assaults

852
01:03:41,580 --> 01:03:45,980
One of the assaults was prosecuted soon. No support was found

853
01:03:46,620 --> 01:03:50,460
So eventually almost all things must come to an end is what I have here

854
01:03:51,020 --> 01:03:56,460
Um january of 71 two oil tankers collided in the entrance of san francisco bay

855
01:03:56,780 --> 01:04:02,380
Oh, though it was acknowledged that the lack of alcatraz light and the foghorn played no part in the collision

856
01:04:02,700 --> 01:04:04,940
It was enough to push the federal government into action

857
01:04:04,940 --> 01:04:11,180
The president nixon gave the go-ahead to develop a removal plan to take place when the smallest number of people were on the island

858
01:04:11,260 --> 01:04:14,380
And to use as little force as possible. Okay, the raid we discussed

859
01:04:15,660 --> 01:04:24,060
So armed federal marshals fbi agents and special forces police swarmed the island and removed five women four children and six unarmed american

860
01:04:24,700 --> 01:04:27,420
Indian men that's not a lot of people. That's all that were remaining

861
01:04:27,980 --> 01:04:29,980
They were they were deserting they had to

862
01:04:30,940 --> 01:04:32,940
so the success or failure of the

863
01:04:32,940 --> 01:04:34,940
occupation

864
01:04:36,000 --> 01:04:41,760
The success or failure of this occupation should not be judged by whether the demands of the occupiers were realized

865
01:04:42,320 --> 01:04:48,000
underlying goals of the american indians at alcatraz were to awaken the public to their plight and

866
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,920
To assert the need for indian self-determination for some freedom

867
01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:57,680
Yeah, really as a result of the occupation directly or indirectly the official government policy of

868
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:02,240
termination of american indian tribes was ended and a policy of

869
01:05:02,960 --> 01:05:08,960
Self-determination became the official u.s. Government policy. Oh excellent some would argue that but I think it's a turning point because

870
01:05:10,080 --> 01:05:13,120
Well during this period the occupiers were there which is only two years

871
01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:18,480
President nixon returned blue lake and 48 000 acres of land to the taos indians

872
01:05:19,440 --> 01:05:24,960
Occupied lands near davis california shout out to dad would become home to native american university

873
01:05:24,960 --> 01:05:28,160
The occupation of the bureau of indian affairs

874
01:05:29,040 --> 01:05:33,520
Offices in washington dc would lead to a hiring of native americans to work in the federal agency

875
01:05:34,000 --> 01:05:36,000
That had such great effect on their lives

876
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:42,320
So alcatraz may have been lost but the occupation gave birth to a political movement which continues today. Yeah

877
01:05:43,120 --> 01:05:50,080
Yeah, need some help. But at least it started something. Yeah, so it's a little sad that um, they

878
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:56,320
They you know achieved what they were wanting to achieve but then things just started to go to go to trash

879
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:59,440
It's like when the press turns against you. There's nothing else you can do about it. Yeah

880
01:05:59,920 --> 01:06:06,960
I mean, I I hated to say the one paragraph about oh, yeah, there was a occupation. They were you know, a raid happened

881
01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:12,320
It makes them look awful and it makes it loses the importance of why they were there. The real reason is

882
01:06:13,920 --> 01:06:19,600
A lot more meaningful than just oh they're oh and they broke the fire broke out and so then they were removed

883
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:26,080
It's like well and the original occupants were mostly students at university ucla, which is a great school

884
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:32,000
So they were intelligent and they had meaning and intent behind their actions

885
01:06:32,560 --> 01:06:34,560
And it's not you know, they weren't they weren't

886
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:38,400
Random people that you know needed a home. They were intentionally there

887
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:43,520
And then by the end they had to go back to school, which is understandable

888
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:46,640
Yeah, and so those who replaced them were just there to hang out it seemed like

889
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:51,600
Uh, so kind of lost the effectiveness you just put yourself in their shoes like think about

890
01:06:52,240 --> 01:06:58,640
Just how much hope you would have in things changing with this and for it to go down this way

891
01:06:58,640 --> 01:07:00,720
It had to have just been devastating. Yeah, and

892
01:07:01,600 --> 01:07:03,600
You know, luckily the raid wasn't more

893
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:05,680
Violent or anything. Yeah

894
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:06,800
so

895
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:08,240
back to the lighthouse

896
01:07:08,240 --> 01:07:14,320
Um, because that's what that's what we're here for little lighthouse. Yeah, so back to the lighthouse is the picture of the fire going on

897
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:21,840
This is a picture of the damage afterward. You can see the quarters are gone warden's house is deroofed lots of rubble lots of um

898
01:07:23,200 --> 01:07:25,200
Smoke, uh, what is it called?

899
01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:29,600
Charming. Yeah smoke ash and charring the lighthouse tower

900
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:34,960
Like the lantern room just looks black. Yeah, thank goodness. It's that tall. Yeah

901
01:07:35,680 --> 01:07:39,200
Um, and i'm gonna show you a couple more pictures just of what the lighthouse looks like today

902
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:45,440
Oh nice, they got it cleaned up sailboat cute. You can see tourists kind of hanging around. It's a beautiful day

903
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:51,280
Another sailboat. I know you love those. It's a big island. This is golden hour

904
01:07:51,440 --> 01:07:56,720
It looks like such a tiny island on a map. It's small for the area, but it's a big piece of land

905
01:07:57,520 --> 01:08:04,400
So this shows the inside of the lighthouse and the lens that's up there now. So it's functioning right now. It is it still functions. Yep

906
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,040
so this um

907
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:12,240
I'll talk about touring today, but the lighthouse itself is not a part of

908
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:17,760
The typical tour. Oh, so they receive I think i'm gonna probably misquote

909
01:08:17,840 --> 01:08:21,360
I think they said they get like 5 000 people a day on the island. Oh gosh

910
01:08:21,760 --> 01:08:25,760
They have these big fairies that actually i'll show you right here

911
01:08:26,480 --> 01:08:32,000
These big fairies that are just going to alcatraz and back to the coast. Um take people so

912
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:39,040
So the lighthouse is not accessible and it's in kind of a mode of disrepair. So it needs some improvements

913
01:08:39,520 --> 01:08:44,080
I did read about a company that had sponsored also with the united states lighthouse society

914
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:49,280
And they recorded a video actually it's on youtube of going to visit and they record the whole tour

915
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:51,120
and uh

916
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:53,520
This I forget what the company's I think it was land's end

917
01:08:54,320 --> 01:08:56,320
company was sponsoring

918
01:08:56,320 --> 01:08:58,320
um a

919
01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:03,140
Architectural review into the status of the lighthouse that was going to be done what needed to be fixed

920
01:09:03,220 --> 01:09:06,660
Yep, and that was pre-covid but not not far before covid

921
01:09:07,220 --> 01:09:11,460
And they were going to assess it and then they were going to get a report on what it would take and then they were

922
01:09:11,460 --> 01:09:15,780
Going to see what the cost would be and then we've talked about these type of restorations before

923
01:09:16,180 --> 01:09:18,180
um, this one's obviously very

924
01:09:18,580 --> 01:09:22,580
Popular because of of so many people are aware of it in such a great city

925
01:09:23,140 --> 01:09:26,020
So central it's an icon of the area. So

926
01:09:26,020 --> 01:09:32,980
It's like accessible but far enough away to where it feels like an otherworldly, you know, like a not well known kind of thing

927
01:09:32,980 --> 01:09:36,500
I could not find that report. I don't know if it's been completed or not

928
01:09:36,500 --> 01:09:38,820
I reached out to the gentleman who won the contract

929
01:09:38,820 --> 01:09:43,940
Um, and he has not answered. Okay. I also found another person that worked at that company on linkedin

930
01:09:43,940 --> 01:09:48,180
I haven't talked to them yet either and I found a person who was an intern in 2010. Oh

931
01:09:48,980 --> 01:09:49,860
Who?

932
01:09:49,860 --> 01:09:51,780
Helped to execute a similar

933
01:09:51,780 --> 01:09:56,340
Research event so I reached out to her you did some digging also haven't heard back from her

934
01:09:56,660 --> 01:09:59,300
So maybe we'll talk about it in the future. I'd love to know more about

935
01:09:59,300 --> 01:10:01,300
Yeah, we could do a little touch up on

936
01:10:01,300 --> 01:10:08,020
Yeah, civil construction architecture inspection. So I assume it's a common thing for lighthouses not common in the world, but

937
01:10:08,740 --> 01:10:09,780
so

938
01:10:09,780 --> 01:10:12,580
But I wanted to share one more thing this lighthouse

939
01:10:13,060 --> 01:10:17,300
So this picture on the left is taken from the top looking down the stairs. You can see a landing

940
01:10:17,300 --> 01:10:21,140
And just to the left of this image. There's a door

941
01:10:21,140 --> 01:10:26,180
The door will open and close and there's another final stair set that goes up to this lantern room

942
01:10:26,180 --> 01:10:28,180
Oh, and that's what we watched a movie

943
01:10:28,820 --> 01:10:32,900
about a lighthouse the lighthouse we'll hear a whole episode on that soon, but

944
01:10:34,260 --> 01:10:39,220
There there was someone who fell down some stairs and I was like, oh I didn't have the door closed

945
01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:42,820
You know because I just seen the video of the inside of this. I thought that was curious

946
01:10:42,820 --> 01:10:44,820
I don't know if it's for security or something

947
01:10:44,820 --> 01:10:48,340
I thought that was curious. I don't know if it's for security or fire or

948
01:10:49,060 --> 01:10:51,220
What it is, but there's a door at the top of the stairway

949
01:10:51,780 --> 01:10:58,340
Which i've never seen that kind of hatch upwards hatch thing or it's a man door. Okay. Yeah normal walkthrough door

950
01:10:59,540 --> 01:11:04,180
Today only the tall cement tower equipped with a modern beacon stands as a reminder

951
01:11:04,580 --> 01:11:07,060
Of the keepers who served on the island for over 100 years

952
01:11:07,620 --> 01:11:12,260
Alcatraz was declared a national recreational area in 1972 right after the occupation

953
01:11:12,260 --> 01:11:15,300
And made a national historic landmark in 1986

954
01:11:15,860 --> 01:11:22,180
The national park service administers alcatraz island as a unit of the golden gate national recreation area

955
01:11:22,180 --> 01:11:25,940
Oh cool. So national parks runs this you know what that means

956
01:11:26,660 --> 01:11:28,660
pins and patches pins and patches

957
01:11:29,060 --> 01:11:34,900
Also, it's like it's the perfect solution because you had the chaos of the occupation the government's like, okay

958
01:11:34,900 --> 01:11:39,860
We got to do something on alcatraz. Okay national parks was probably pumped about it. So yeah

959
01:11:39,860 --> 01:11:44,020
Yeah, they love lighthouses the rock today has these cruises like I talked about

960
01:11:45,140 --> 01:11:47,140
They ferry from san francisco

961
01:11:47,140 --> 01:11:51,940
The boats begin leaving early in the morning and they are self-guided tours. So there are audio tours you can pick up

962
01:11:52,020 --> 01:11:57,220
Oh, this is the best kind of tours which makes sense because it's so big. It's yeah karen

963
01:11:57,940 --> 01:12:04,260
As my sister went on a tour of alcatraz not long ago. So I talked to her about it took the young boys. They had fun

964
01:12:05,140 --> 01:12:08,580
But it's there are like group tours, but you can also go self-guided

965
01:12:08,580 --> 01:12:13,940
uh, and spend as much as the day as you want the again, the lighthouse is not typically available, but

966
01:12:14,740 --> 01:12:18,900
Sometimes people have gotten lucky. They said just someone happens to be going there

967
01:12:20,420 --> 01:12:24,100
So you got to coordinate your visit with coast guard

968
01:12:24,820 --> 01:12:29,460
Maintenance time. Yeah, but it's not it's not common if you are into it

969
01:12:29,540 --> 01:12:34,420
YouTube has some videos views at the top what it looks like inside some conversation

970
01:12:34,420 --> 01:12:38,980
Um, there's also group tours and ghost night tours available

971
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:41,380
Spectacular

972
01:12:41,380 --> 01:12:44,580
What could be a better place to have a ghost tour? Yep

973
01:12:45,220 --> 01:12:48,580
And I have a note here that failed to make it into the rest of my notes

974
01:12:48,820 --> 01:12:51,860
There were several famous people housed as prisoners

975
01:12:51,940 --> 01:12:57,940
I was gonna ask if there was any prisoners that were big names or anything if you ever heard of al capone. Yeah

976
01:12:58,500 --> 01:12:59,460
Yep

977
01:12:59,460 --> 01:13:03,220
That's crazy. There's a couple others, but that's the biggest is anybody escaped from here

978
01:13:03,220 --> 01:13:07,780
I know in the movie they said no, but I don't actually know let me look it up. It'd be a crazy swim

979
01:13:08,660 --> 01:13:10,980
Also, the one attempt we talked about didn't go very well

980
01:13:12,420 --> 01:13:14,660
No, it did not

981
01:13:14,660 --> 01:13:16,760
Only three people have ever escaped alcatraz

982
01:13:17,860 --> 01:13:23,380
Yeah, they get caught again three men brothers john and clarence algen and frank morris

983
01:13:23,460 --> 01:13:30,020
Oh at the same time might have pulled off what cbs news calls one of the greatest prison escapes in american history

984
01:13:30,020 --> 01:13:33,460
Oh, check it out more on the strangest unsolved mysteries of all time

985
01:13:33,540 --> 01:13:38,820
You know, they've got us hooked. I feel like they died in the water and no one knows or they escaped and they no one knows

986
01:13:39,620 --> 01:13:41,700
So i'll interesting we can talk about it in the future

987
01:13:41,700 --> 01:13:44,100
I don't want to derail us too too far because I have

988
01:13:44,900 --> 01:13:46,900
I have told everyone a lot of information

989
01:13:48,180 --> 01:13:52,260
I want to go over alcatraz island one more time for a history recap. Okay. Yeah

990
01:13:52,900 --> 01:13:58,100
Thank you 1850 to 51 congress approves funding for a lighthouse's eight

991
01:13:58,100 --> 01:14:04,100
Along california coast in response to the surge in ship traffic for the gold rush our history buoy

992
01:14:05,120 --> 01:14:09,700
1854 alcatraz lighthouse turned on for the first time first lighthouse in california

993
01:14:10,880 --> 01:14:16,420
1859 the alcatraz citadel a military barracks is finished on the island just north of the lighthouse

994
01:14:17,060 --> 01:14:24,020
1902 the original lens is replaced with a revolving fresnel lens which flashed white every 15 seconds

995
01:14:24,020 --> 01:14:27,960
1909 lighthouse is rebuilt on a new location

996
01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:33,240
So its operation would not be interfered by the rebuilt 600 cell citadel military prison

997
01:14:34,640 --> 01:14:36,240
1933

998
01:14:36,240 --> 01:14:43,000
Oh my gosh, there's a world war one in front of there in between there citadel military prison converted for fed federal penitentiary

999
01:14:45,040 --> 01:14:48,840
1963 lighthouse is automated sad penitentiary is closed

1000
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:54,440
1970 a fire during occupation of the island destroys the keepers residence and scorches the lighthouse

1001
01:14:55,160 --> 01:15:00,760
1972 just two years later alcatraz is declared a national recreation area as a lighthouse

1002
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,280
spectacular you know how much money was spent on

1003
01:15:05,160 --> 01:15:07,480
Rehabilitating this place for people to come visit

1004
01:15:08,120 --> 01:15:09,480
No

1005
01:15:09,480 --> 01:15:16,280
I don't know millions. Well, I I'm assuming they built the dock for larger ferries

1006
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:19,000
I'm assuming they built some type of ticketing

1007
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:23,320
Had to clean up all that rubble. They had to scrub the lighthouse had to

1008
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:27,000
Make it safe. Yeah, make it safe to walk around at least

1009
01:15:27,880 --> 01:15:29,880
so

1010
01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:35,080
What an awesome lighthouse to cover I would have never thought about that one. Well, I was so anxious

1011
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:38,200
I just didn't know that alcatraz had a lighthouse

1012
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:42,680
I know you covered one right over the hill and then I was like I was like I gotta get this one done

1013
01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:46,600
There's a Google icon made me think it was a smokestack

1014
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:51,320
In my defense, they do have a like a little smokestack on the other side of the island. So

1015
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:53,800
Maybe that's what it is. Yeah

1016
01:15:55,000 --> 01:15:58,120
I don't know what they're referring to but yeah, there it is

1017
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:00,040
Clearly

1018
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:06,600
Could have been a water tower could have been a smokestack could have been a lighthouse. I wanted to see I want to go

1019
01:16:07,480 --> 01:16:11,320
That's all I've got for this episode. Is there anything you want to tell the people about?

1020
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:16,040
No, the people I have nothing to say. That's a good one because it has history

1021
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:21,720
around the lighthouse the lighthouse just kind of has to adapt through its lifetime to

1022
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:27,240
Conform to just what's going on in the island. Yeah, the island is a lot bigger than I thought it was

1023
01:16:27,240 --> 01:16:29,560
Isn't that nuts? The lighthouse was there first

1024
01:16:30,200 --> 01:16:31,640
before the prison

1025
01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:36,680
Had nothing this island in the lighthouse had nothing to do with a prison and then all of a sudden it was just like

1026
01:16:36,680 --> 01:16:41,080
prison it was occupation and

1027
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,080
fire

1028
01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:45,080
earthquake drama

1029
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:47,800
drama

1030
01:16:48,600 --> 01:16:53,560
Drama was off the chain. I just wanted a quiet life as a lighthouse on a rock. Yeah

1031
01:16:54,440 --> 01:16:57,640
Nope. Now it has 5,000. I think people a day

1032
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:02,200
There was a youtube video another one that I watched with a bunch of idiots who were in their 20s

1033
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:07,000
A bunch of dudes. There's a one I told you they got millions of views for going to Alcatraz overnight

1034
01:17:08,200 --> 01:17:11,240
Oh, I want to be ghost tours. No, they just went on their own. They got some

1035
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:17,720
Some way set up. Yeah, but just idiots and they had cameraman with them in the park sky to make sure they didn't vandalize anything

1036
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:20,120
but

1037
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:23,960
Yeah, there's a morgue. There's a cell house. There's warden's house. There's

1038
01:17:27,480 --> 01:17:29,480
So, well, thanks for coming along everyone

1039
01:17:29,480 --> 01:17:35,320
I uh put in some hours on this one and I hope it was entertaining very cool one. So very good

1040
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:37,320
Rocks

1041
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:39,320
Thanks for making me watch that movie

1042
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,760
Did you like it? I half like it half disturbing

1043
01:17:42,760 --> 01:17:47,320
So if it didn't have some of the gory things, would you have liked it? Yeah 100%

1044
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,520
Yeah, people getting shot and he's like

1045
01:17:51,240 --> 01:17:54,520
Screaming at them to stop and nobody does until everyone's just dead

1046
01:17:54,520 --> 01:18:00,920
To shame that it's a good thing it's a movie and then they're gonna execute a hostage. Yeah, but they didn't luckily

1047
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:05,400
Just a warning for everybody out there. Yeah, it's not a

1048
01:18:06,040 --> 01:18:10,040
I don't know what it's rated. But it's not a feel good. I'd call it modern are

1049
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:13,160
I definitely thought he was gonna dump his girlfriend

1050
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:17,800
No, he loved her they're getting married yeah, they are

1051
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,760
All right. Thank you. I'm gonna go ahead and get my phone. I'm gonna go ahead and get my phone

1052
01:18:22,760 --> 01:18:24,760
I'm gonna go ahead and get my phone okay

1053
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:28,660
So yeah it's good you guys if you would all the talent out there

1054
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:31,780
All right. Thank you everybody for listening in

1055
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:38,020
To Alcatraz island the Rock the lighthouse. We'll have a link in our

1056
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:40,680
Show notes. So you can

1057
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:47,800
See pictures of lighthouse on instagram follow us on linkedin you can check out our website all of that jazz

1058
01:18:47,800 --> 01:19:03,800
Thanks for watching!