![]() “School administrators, they were aware of the fear that we could be held hostage to try to get an inmate off the island, so we had small dog tags - IDs - that had our names and association with Alcatraz. “For the older kids, our school bus was the boat that took us to the main land,” Mahoney said. Most evenings, you were either at someone’s house for dinner or they were at yours."īut unsurprisingly, there were some differences when it came to life on Alcatraz. “My dad had the first color TV on the island and it was a real popular thing for the adults. “There was a preschool on the island. a small commissary with milk, butter, bread. Murphy’s book, " The Children of Alcatraz: Growing Up on the Rock," chronicled life on the island through the eyes of kids.Įventually a cousin joined what had become a family business on the island, where life, like in any community, took on a routine. You want to get a conversation going, say 'I lived on Alcatraz.'" "Their fathers were quite proud of their work and the mothers would say that was a dang good job, especially during the depression," author Claire Rudolf Murphy said. Guards applying to work on the island moved there with their families if they got the job. Mahoney’s father was one of the 70 or so guards who lived on the island during the federal prison era. ![]() "We’d get loaves of bread and feed them to small sharks. "We played baseball and flew kites and rode bikes on what had been the parade field," he said. While his siblings can boast of birth certificates that name "Alcatraz Island" as their home, it’s Mahoney who possesses the most enviable prize: Memories of their life on The Rock. Until he was six, Mahoney lived on the island with his parents and his two younger brothers, leaving only when the prison closed in 1963. ![]() Children Who Grew Up On Alcatraz Recount Life on Prison Island: 'It Was Home' 49ers Fred Warner's Wife Says She Will Probably Never Return to Eagles' Stadium Man Patiently Helps Koala Cross a Busy Australia Highway Miss USA R'Bonney Gabriel Becomes 1st Filipino American to Win Miss Universe Search for Missing 4-Year-Old Athena Brownfield Now a ‘Recovery Operation’: Cops Netflix’s ‘The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker’ Shows New Video of Kai Lawrence Delta Airlines Offers to Fly Singing California Kid and His Entire Family to New York ‘Hiking Queen’ Dies After Falling 700 Feet Off California's Mount Baldy Indiana Man Accidentally Receives Bag of $5,000 With His McDonald’s Order Scientists Dig Up Remains of Potentially Feathered Dinosaur in Chile Massachusetts Tech Company Shows Off Its Robot’s Advanced Skills Pennsylvania State Trooper Jay Splain Has Used Deadly Force 4 Times Moments When Allegedly Abandoned Babies Were Rescued Why Vietnam Observes the Cat and Not the Rabbit for Lunar New Year Romanian Judge Grants extension to detain Andrew Tate Additional 30 Days in Prison Pamela Anderson Says Tim Allen Flashed Her on ‘Home Improvement’ Set Wisconsin Man Faces Retrial for His Wife’s Antifreeze Death 15 Years Later Georgia Substitute School Bus Driver Slapped in Face by Angry Parent Moms Are Going Crazy for the Purple Wiggle Dallas Zoo Raising Security as Missing Tamarin Monkeys Are Found Which Food Items Should Not Be Kept in Your Fridge? ![]()
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