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The Social Hall, also known as the Officers' Club, was a social club located on the northwestern side of the island of
The club had a small bar, library, large dining and dance floor, billiards table, ping pong table and a two-lane bowling alley, and was the center of social life on the island for the employees of the penitentiary. It regularly hosted dinners, bingo events, and from the 1940s onwards showed movies every Sunday night after they had been shown to the inmates during the day on Saturday and Sunday. The employees formed bowling leagues and held championships Food was supplied from leftovers in the kitchen and often brought by the attendees so it was usually free for the guests of the parties held here.
The club was responsible for organizing numerous special events on the island (held either in the hall or the Parade Grounds) and the fundraising associated with it, including ice cream and watermelon feasts,
The Social Hall, also known as the Officers' Club, was a social club located on the northwestern side of the island of Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island () is a small island about 1.25 miles offshore from San Francisco in San Francisco Bay, California, near the Golden Gate Strait. The island was developed in the mid-19th century with facilities for a lighthouse, a military fo ...
, off the coast of San Francisco
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, USA. Located in close proximity to the Power House
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, water tower
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and Former Military Chapel (Bachelor Quarters), it formerly housed the post exchange. The club was a social venue for the Federal Penitentiary workers and their families on the island to unwind after they'd been locked up at 17:30. It was burned down by a fire of disputed origins during the Occupation of Alcatraz
The Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) was a 19-month long occupation of Alcatraz Island and its prison complex, then classified as abandoned surplus federal land, by 89 American Indians and their supporters. The occ ...
in 1970; leaving a shell which still remains.
Facilities and organization
The club had a small bar, library, large dining and dance floor, billiards table, ping pong table and a two-lane bowling alley, and was the center of social life on the island for the employees of the penitentiary. It regularly hosted dinners, bingo events, and from the 1940s onwards showed movies every Sunday night after they had been shown to the inmates during the day on Saturday and Sunday. The employees formed bowling leagues and held championships Food was supplied from leftovers in the kitchen and often brought by the attendees so it was usually free for the guests of the parties held here.
The club was responsible for organizing numerous special events on the island (held either in the hall or the Parade Grounds) and the fundraising associated with it, including ice cream and watermelon feasts, Halloween
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and Christmas parties.
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