Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.
Could you break your brother out of here? Joliet Correctional Center was closed in 2002 and now plays the part of Fox River State Penitentiary in the compulsive watching stupidity that is Prison Break.
The prison also featured in another story of brotherly love, as it’s where Jake is released from at the beginning of The Blues Brothers.
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Another piece of interest - right across the road from that building is the location of the old Joliet Iron Works. You can see the pits from the blast furnace here:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
and you can learn more about the place at several places, including here:
http://www.fpdwc.org/ironworks.cfm
It is a fun place to visit if you live in the area.
“Well, thank you, pal! The day I get out of prison my own brother picks me up in a police car!”
And following the railway you can see a looooooooooooong train….
It starts Placemark: here / Google Earth
And it ends Placemark: here / Google Earth
A rough calculation of the train’s length (”A ojo de buen cubero” as we say here) is around 1,3km!!
What light?
Here is the New York state prison at Sing Sing, in a scenic location right on the banks of the Hudson River:
Placemark: Google Maps / Google Earth
A busy commuter train line runs right through the middle of the prison
Is it just me or does every American sight have a baseball dimond on it somewhere?
Too bad they closed it … they used to serve a wicked Pepper Steak.
this is the best
I wonder if that scrap card is the same one that they used in episode 19??