Before we left Sandy got her iPhone configured as a wireless hotspot so that we could get on the net with our laptop. Good thing we went to Verizon to find out how because it took the "expert" about five phone calls to tech support and 45 minutes to get it activated. But it works great now. So I was browsing last night and stumbled across the fact the the old Ohio State Reformatory was used as the setting for the Shawshank Redemption, one of my favorite movies. Cool. A little googling and I discovered it wasn't all that far from Mohican State Park and there were self guided tours available. Double cool, I know what we are doing on Thursday! The orignal prison hasn't been used since 1990 and is pretty much derelict. A historical society owns it and has reopened it for tours where they pretty much turn you loose in the place. They used much of the old original adminstration building for varous scenes in the movie but interestingly enough the movie producers constructed the complete cell block in a downtown Mansfield warehouse just so they could have the prisoners facing each other across the galley. But the existing cellblocks are really neat. Cells were 7-feet by 9-feet and there were 600 in each of the two six-story cell blocks. You are free to wander through them. This place was a hoot (well at least for a visitor, maybe not so much for the permanent residents...)
RV glamour shot:
Outside the East cell block:
Sandy on the staircase headed to the warden's office:
Brooks was here; So was Red:
Enjoying my stretch, twenty to life:
Six stories of steel: the East Cell Block:
Father Time, Mother Rust:
Can I offer you a seat?:
Pretty sure you have to be OLD like you to get 20 years to life bc if it was me, it'd be more like 60yrs to life!
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