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[CC] Alcatraz Traditional Cache

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Cold Cache Crew: It's time to bring another year of the Cold Cache series to a close. The snow is finally gone (despite the Groundhog assuring us it would have been sooner) and this cache series is complete.

Remember: If you found all caches in the 2013 series [i]except[/i] "Queen Elizabeth", contact Bumble and he will grant permission to log that as a bonus find (so you can complete the series).

Bumble would like to thank the 2013 Cold Cache Crew members (bretina, MI Barrel Makers, TJPost, Addham, N8theGR811, and spartanalum) for all of their work on this series.

So long, farewell, until next year ...

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Hidden : 12/7/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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March 21 - Alcatraz prison closed by the order of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy in 1963

The Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (often just referred to as Alcatraz) was a maximum high security Federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles off the coast of San Francisco, California, which operated from 1934 to 1963.

The main prison building was built from 1910 –1912 during the time it was a United States Army military prison; Alcatraz was the site of a citadel from the 1860s. The United States Disciplinary Barracks, Pacific Branch on Alcatraz was acquired by the United States Department of Justice on October 12, 1933, and the island became a Federal Bureau of Prisons federal prison in August 1934, after the buildings were modernized to meet the requirements of a top-notch security prison. Given this high security and the location of Alcatraz in the cold waters and strong currents of San Francisco Bay, the prison operators believed Alcatraz to be inescapable and America's strongest prison.

Alcatraz was designed to hold prisoners who continuously caused trouble at other federal prisons. One of the world's most notorious and best known prisons, over the years, Alcatraz housed some 1576 of America's most ruthless criminals including Al Capone, Robert Franklin Stroud (the "Birdman of Alcatraz"), George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. "Doc" Barker, James "Whitey" Bulger, and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis (who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate). It also provided housing for the Bureau of Prisons staff and their families. A total of 36 prisoners made 14 escape attempts during the 29 years of the prison's existence, the most notable of which were the violent escape attempt of May 1946 known as the "Battle of Alcatraz", and the arguably successful "Escape from Alcatraz" by Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin in June 1962 in one of the most intricate escapes ever devised. Faced with high running and maintenance costs and a poor reputation, Alcatraz closed on March 21, 1963.

Today, the reputedly haunted penitentiary is a museum and one of San Francisco's major tourist attractions, attracting some 1.5 million visitors annually. The former prison is now a public museum operated by the National Park Service's Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and the badly eroding buildings of the former prison have been subject to restoration works in recent times and maintained.


The theme for the 2013 Cold Cache series involves events in history that took place between January 1 and March 31 (which is the same timeframe that the Cold Cache series will be available).

Abraham Lincoln Public Museum Elvis Boy Scouts
Town Lights Underground Railroad John Glenn Girl Scouts
Daylight Savings Uranus Washington Monument First Movie
Super Bowl Navy Cotton Gin Queen Elizabeth I
Postage Stamps Panama Canal Nautilus Color TV
Oil Spill King Kong Challenger New Amsterdam
King Tut Bell Telephone Gold Rush Apollo 1
13th Amendment Iwo Jima 911 System Alcatraz
B&O Railroad MLK Ellis Island Alamo


Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)