Sutro Baths Built in 1896 by silver mag nate Adolph Sutro, these were at one time the world s largest heated swimming pools, overr rr arched by a stunning glass roof. The complex was destroyed by fire in 1966, but you can access the ruins by steps at the Merrie Way parking lot (see p116).
^Morton Sobell Charged with conspiracy to commit treason, Sobell arrived on Alcatraz in 1952 and spent five years as its most famous political prisoner, being a victim of J. Edgar Hoover s witch hunt for Communist subversives. Once freed, Sobell returned to live in San Francisco, where he still resides today.
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