A few years ago I was watching an episode of History Detectives titled Prison Plaque which researched the history of a discarded plaque found during some restoration of the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia. Immediately this made it on my mental list of places to check out. Trouble with mental lists is that they are forgettable, and it wasn’t until I was riding down to a PLUG meeting with mukidohime recently that I remembered it, he was picking up a friend of his for the meeting and we passed the Penitentiary. I finally got my opportunity to go last month while my friend MJ was in town, Nita and I headed down there with him on a Sunday evening for a couple tours.
Inside one of the original cells in the facility, and a look down death row
Down the corridor of a 2 story segment of the prison, and a guard tower as seen from the grounds
Cats from the Linda Brenner: Ghost Cats Exhibit, and some a case of home made knives from the prison
Nita with a rock, getting ready to break out and MJ behind bars
I’ll have to go again when I have more time to explore, the museum closes at 5PM and we got there pretty late in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun, and there are all sorts of nooks and crannies to explore, complete with self-guided audio tours you get with the price of your ticket.
Wednesday, Aug 13th, 2008 at 16:17
Dude, that place *rocks* during Halloween. I usually make it a point to go at least once every October. You should try it!
Sunday, May 9th, 2010 at 6:17
Prison Break is definitely one of the best action suspense TV series. I love the story line, i like T-bag too.::*