WEBVTT 00:00:25.992 --> 00:00:29.461 AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE OUT HERE ON SAN FRANCISCO BAY. 00:00:29.529 --> 00:00:32.898 NOW, WE'RE HEADING FOR AN ISLAND OUT IN THE BAY, 00:00:32.966 --> 00:00:34.800 AND IT'S NOT ALCATRAZ. 00:00:34.868 --> 00:00:38.504 THE ISLAND WE'RE HEADING FOR IS JUST A LITTLE BIT BIGGER, 00:00:38.571 --> 00:00:40.673 AND IT'S CHOCK-FULL OF HISTORY. 00:00:40.740 --> 00:00:42.374 THEY ALSO TELL US 00:00:42.442 --> 00:00:45.377 THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF NEAT THINGS TO DO ON IT. 00:00:45.445 --> 00:00:46.745 SO IF YOU'RE READY 00:00:46.813 --> 00:00:49.882 FOR AN HONEST-TO-GOODNESS ISLAND ADVENTURE, 00:00:49.949 --> 00:00:51.450 COME ON ALONG WITH US 00:00:51.518 --> 00:00:54.219 AS WE CONTINUE OUR SEARCH TOGETHER -- 00:00:54.287 --> 00:00:56.789 THIS TIME IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY -- 00:00:56.856 --> 00:00:58.424 FOR CALIFORNIA'S GOLD. 00:00:58.491 --> 00:01:02.995 [ "CALIFORNIA HERE I COME" PLAYING ] 00:01:33.827 --> 00:01:37.396 Howser: THEY CALL IT "THE JEWEL OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY" -- 00:01:37.464 --> 00:01:40.733 THIS BEAUTIFUL ISLAND THAT'S VISIBLE FROM THE CITY 00:01:40.800 --> 00:01:42.634 ON ALL BUT THE FOGGIEST DAYS. 00:01:42.702 --> 00:01:45.504 NOW, IT'S NOT NEARLY AS WELL-KNOWN AS ALCATRAZ. 00:01:45.572 --> 00:01:48.073 IN FACT, IT REMAINS SOMEWHAT OF A MYSTERY 00:01:48.141 --> 00:01:50.376 EVEN TO MANY NATIVE SAN FRANCISCANS, 00:01:50.443 --> 00:01:53.278 EVEN THOUGH IT'S THE LARGEST ISLAND IN THE BAY -- 00:01:53.346 --> 00:01:54.680 A SQUARE MILE. 00:01:54.748 --> 00:01:56.749 THE PLACE IS RICH IN HISTORY, 00:01:56.816 --> 00:01:59.952 STARTING WITH THE FACT THAT 3,000 YEARS AGO, 00:02:00.020 --> 00:02:03.288 SEVERAL VILLAGES OF THE NATIVE COASTAL MIWOK INDIANS 00:02:03.356 --> 00:02:04.757 WERE HERE. 00:02:04.824 --> 00:02:09.028 BACK IN 1775, SPANISH EXPLORERS WERE HERE. 00:02:09.095 --> 00:02:11.830 AND THESE DAYS, IT'S A CALIFORNIA STATE PARK. 00:02:11.898 --> 00:02:15.567 NOW, WE WERE INVITED TO VISIT THE PLACE AND SEE FOR OURSELVES 00:02:15.635 --> 00:02:17.202 JUST WHAT IT HAD TO OFFER. 00:02:17.270 --> 00:02:20.806 AND PULLING IN TO THE BEAUTIFUL LITTLE HARBOR, 00:02:20.874 --> 00:02:25.144 WE KNEW RIGHT AWAY WE WERE VISITING A VERY SPECIAL PLACE. 00:02:25.211 --> 00:02:27.379 MORNING. 00:02:27.447 --> 00:02:30.215 MORNING. HUELL, WELCOME TO ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK. 00:02:30.283 --> 00:02:31.483 GLAD TO HAVE YOU HERE. 00:02:31.551 --> 00:02:32.751 NICE TO MEET YOU, SIR. 00:02:32.819 --> 00:02:35.020 THIS IS OUR VISITORS' CENTER OVER HERE? 00:02:35.088 --> 00:02:37.489 THIS IS WHERE WE KIND OF CHECK IN, I GUESS? 00:02:37.557 --> 00:02:40.159 WELL, YOU GET A GOOD ORIENTATION TO ANGEL ISLAND 00:02:40.226 --> 00:02:41.860 IF YOU ENTER THERE. 00:02:41.928 --> 00:02:44.363 LITTLE BIT OF THE HISTORY AND WHERE TO GO ON THE ISLAND. 00:02:44.431 --> 00:02:48.567 HUELL, THE FIRST THING I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT OUR ISLAND HERE 00:02:48.635 --> 00:02:51.337 IS JUST WHERE YOU DOCKED ON YOUR FERRY 00:02:51.404 --> 00:02:54.006 WAS WHERE ALL THE SHIPS HAD TO DOCK 00:02:54.074 --> 00:02:55.574 BEFORE THEY WENT TO SAN FRANCISCO. 00:02:55.642 --> 00:02:56.842 THIS WAS A QUARANTINE STATION. 00:02:56.910 --> 00:02:59.445 BACK BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, 00:02:59.512 --> 00:03:02.081 THERE WERE 40 BUILDINGS IN THIS COVE. 00:03:02.148 --> 00:03:05.117 THERE WERE HOSPITALS, HOMES FOR ARMY SURGEONS, 00:03:05.185 --> 00:03:06.752 ADMINISTRATION BUILDINGS. 00:03:06.820 --> 00:03:09.688 NOW, WHAT DO YOU MEAN "QUARANTINE STATIONS"? 00:03:09.756 --> 00:03:12.424 WHY WOULD YOU HAVE TO HAVE A QUARANTINE? 00:03:12.492 --> 00:03:15.060 WELL, THE STATE OF THE ART OF MEDICINE 00:03:15.128 --> 00:03:16.995 BEFORE THE TURN OF THE CENTURY 00:03:17.063 --> 00:03:19.898 WAS IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE IN OTHER COUNTRIES. 00:03:19.966 --> 00:03:21.800 PEOPLE THAT CAME INTO THIS COUNTRY 00:03:21.868 --> 00:03:23.502 HAD COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, 00:03:23.570 --> 00:03:26.572 SO THEY HAD TO BE BROUGHT HERE AND CHECKED OUT AND BE MADE WELL 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.607 BEFORE THEY COULD ENTER THE COUNTRY. 00:03:28.675 --> 00:03:32.011 SO THEY WOULD COME HERE AND BE CHECKED OUT 00:03:32.078 --> 00:03:34.913 AND THEN GET BACK ON THEIR SHIP 00:03:34.981 --> 00:03:38.183 AND GO OVER TO THE SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR 00:03:38.251 --> 00:03:39.518 AND GET OFF? 00:03:39.586 --> 00:03:40.919 RIGHT. 00:03:40.987 --> 00:03:44.023 ALL SHIPS ENTERING SAN FRANCISCO BAY 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:45.758 CAME TO HOSPITAL COVE -- 00:03:45.825 --> 00:03:48.260 THAT'S WHAT IT WAS CALLED IN THOSE YEARS -- FIRST. 00:03:48.328 --> 00:03:49.995 ALSO, THERE WAS A SHIP 00:03:50.063 --> 00:03:52.798 THAT WAS PERMANENTLY ANCHORED HERE IN THE COVE. 00:03:52.866 --> 00:03:56.068 ITS NAME WAS THE OMAHA, AND IT WAS AN OLD STEAM VESSEL, 00:03:56.136 --> 00:03:59.038 AND ITS BOILERS WERE USED TO GENERATE STEAM 00:03:59.105 --> 00:04:01.807 TO FUMIGATE THE SHIPS THAT CAME IN HERE 00:04:01.875 --> 00:04:05.077 SO THAT THERE WOULD BE NO RATS OR VERMIN LEFT 00:04:05.145 --> 00:04:08.380 BEFORE THE SHIP ENTERED SAN FRANCISCO ITSELF. 00:04:08.448 --> 00:04:11.984 SO, IN ADDITION TO CHECKING OUT THE PEOPLE -- 00:04:12.052 --> 00:04:13.452 THE PASSENGERS -- 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:16.488 THEY ALSO FUMIGATED EVERY SINGLE SHIP 00:04:16.556 --> 00:04:19.591 THAT WENT INTO THE HARBOR OF SAN FRANCISCO? 00:04:19.659 --> 00:04:20.793 THAT'S CORRECT. 00:04:20.860 --> 00:04:22.294 RIGHT HERE IN THIS COVE? 00:04:22.362 --> 00:04:23.295 YES. 00:04:23.363 --> 00:04:24.797 HOW LONG DID THAT GO ON? 00:04:24.864 --> 00:04:26.899 UP UNTIL THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. 00:04:26.966 --> 00:04:30.169 UH, THEN THE STATE OF MEDICINE IN OTHER COUNTRIES 00:04:30.236 --> 00:04:33.038 ADVANCED SO MUCH THAT IT WASN'T NECESSARY, 00:04:33.106 --> 00:04:36.208 AND SHIPS COULD DOCK DIRECTLY IN SAN FRANCISCO. 00:04:36.276 --> 00:04:38.544 SO THIS WAS KNOWN AS "HOSPITAL COVE"? 00:04:38.611 --> 00:04:40.346 IS THAT WHAT YOU CALLED IT? 00:04:40.413 --> 00:04:41.347 YES. 00:04:41.414 --> 00:04:42.981 NOW WE CALL IT "AYALA COVE," 00:04:43.049 --> 00:04:45.951 AFTER THE FIRST SHIP THAT ENTERED SAN FRANCISCO BAY. 00:04:46.019 --> 00:04:48.721 AND HE DROPPED HIS ANCHOR RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF US. 00:04:48.788 --> 00:04:50.089 WHAT YEAR WAS THAT? 00:04:50.156 --> 00:04:51.123 1775. 00:04:51.191 --> 00:04:53.292 WELL, I'LL TELL YOU, THE NEW NAME 00:04:53.360 --> 00:04:55.527 SOUNDS A LOT BETTER THAN "HOSPITAL COVE," 00:04:55.595 --> 00:04:57.029 DON'T YOU THINK? 00:04:57.097 --> 00:04:59.098 YEAH. MORE APPEALING, DOESN'T IT? 00:04:59.165 --> 00:05:01.800 AND THERE'S THE FERRYBOAT RIGHT NOW 00:05:01.868 --> 00:05:03.669 THAT WE JUST GOT OFF OF, 00:05:03.737 --> 00:05:06.005 AND IT'S GOING BACK, I GUESS, 00:05:06.072 --> 00:05:07.573 OVER TO SAN FRANCISCO 00:05:07.640 --> 00:05:10.209 TO PICK UP ANOTHER LOAD OF PEOPLE. 00:05:10.276 --> 00:05:13.178 Man: LOOK AT THE BEAUTIFUL SCENERY OVER THERE. 00:05:13.246 --> 00:05:16.648 Howser: WELL, WE LEFT RANGER DAN FOR A COUPLE OF HOURS, 00:05:16.716 --> 00:05:19.651 AND TRAVELED NEXT TO ANOTHER PART OF THE ISLAND 00:05:19.719 --> 00:05:21.954 IN ORDER TO MEET UP WITH PAUL CHOW, 00:05:22.022 --> 00:05:23.722 WHO'S BEEN INSTRUMENTAL 00:05:23.790 --> 00:05:26.091 IN PRESERVING A VERY IMPORTANT CHAPTER 00:05:26.159 --> 00:05:29.161 FROM ANGEL ISLAND'S PAST FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. 00:05:29.229 --> 00:05:32.598 NOW, PAUL, I GUESS THIS IS THE LOGICAL PLACE 00:05:32.665 --> 00:05:34.099 TO START THE TOUR. 00:05:34.167 --> 00:05:35.901 YOU'RE CERTAINLY RIGHT. 00:05:35.969 --> 00:05:37.770 THIS IS THE PLYMOUTH ROCK 00:05:37.837 --> 00:05:40.472 FOR THE ASIANS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. 00:05:40.540 --> 00:05:42.074 AND THIS IS THE PLACE 00:05:42.142 --> 00:05:44.977 WHERE ALL THE ASIANS ARRIVE IN AMERICA 00:05:45.045 --> 00:05:47.680 TO MAKE THEIR NEW LIFE IN AMERICA. 00:05:47.747 --> 00:05:49.214 FROM THE WEST COAST? 00:05:49.282 --> 00:05:50.749 FROM THE WEST COAST. 00:05:50.817 --> 00:05:52.651 THE MOST LOGICAL PART IS -- 00:05:52.719 --> 00:05:55.187 ALL THE ASIANS ARRIVE IN THE WEST COAST. 00:05:55.255 --> 00:05:58.090 ALL THE EUROPEAN ARRIVE ON THE EAST COAST. 00:05:58.158 --> 00:06:00.159 NOW, WAS THERE A PIER OUT HERE? 00:06:00.226 --> 00:06:02.628 WOULD THE BOATS PULL UP HERE FROM CHINA, LITERALLY? 00:06:02.696 --> 00:06:03.796 YES. 00:06:03.863 --> 00:06:06.965 THE LARGER SHIP CAME IN, ANCHOR OUT, 00:06:07.033 --> 00:06:09.702 AND THEY WERE ALL PUT ONTO A SMALLER BOAT 00:06:09.769 --> 00:06:11.437 AND BROUGHT TO THIS ISLAND. 00:06:11.504 --> 00:06:13.706 AND IN THIS ISLAND IS THE DETERMINATION 00:06:13.773 --> 00:06:16.608 IF THEY STAYED IN AMERICA OR THEY COULD BE DEPORTED. 00:06:16.676 --> 00:06:19.345 NOW, WHAT WAS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BELL? 00:06:19.412 --> 00:06:21.180 DID IT RING? WHERE WAS IT? 00:06:21.247 --> 00:06:23.182 THE BELL WAS ON THE END OF THE PIER. 00:06:23.249 --> 00:06:25.517 IT WAS ACTUALLY A BELL BUILT FOR THE FOG -- 00:06:25.585 --> 00:06:27.453 YOU KNOW, THE SAN FRANCISCO FOG -- 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:29.288 AND WHEN THEY HAVE FOGGY NIGHTS, 00:06:29.356 --> 00:06:31.857 THE PEOPLE WOULD HEAR THE BELL GO, "BONG, BONG." 00:06:31.925 --> 00:06:34.326 IT WAS A VERY SIGNIFICANT PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTOR 00:06:34.394 --> 00:06:36.428 OF THE PEOPLE THEY KEPT ON THE ISLAND. 00:06:36.496 --> 00:06:37.830 WHAT DO YOU MEAN? 00:06:37.897 --> 00:06:40.899 THE SITUATION HERE WAS SAD BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE, 00:06:40.967 --> 00:06:42.768 COMING TO A NEW WORLD, 00:06:42.836 --> 00:06:45.170 DIDN'T KNOW IF THEY GONNA STAY 00:06:45.238 --> 00:06:48.007 OR THEY GONNA BE DEPORTED BACK TO CHINA. 00:06:48.074 --> 00:06:49.274 YEAH. 00:06:49.342 --> 00:06:52.311 SO THIS IS THE ORIGINAL BELL RIGHT HERE? 00:06:52.379 --> 00:06:54.613 1910 -- IT WAS HERE IN 1910. 00:06:54.681 --> 00:06:58.117 AND LATER ON, IT WAS USED AS A TELEGRAPH MESSAGE 00:06:58.184 --> 00:07:01.987 FOR THE IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS TO REPORT TO THEIR STATION. 00:07:02.055 --> 00:07:03.889 WHAT DO YOU MEAN A TELEGRAPH? 00:07:03.957 --> 00:07:05.691 WELL, BACK IN THE OLD DAYS, 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:07.693 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE INTERCOMS, 00:07:07.761 --> 00:07:10.763 SO WHEN A SHIP ARRIVE WITH A FEW HUNDRED IMMIGRANTS, 00:07:10.830 --> 00:07:12.331 THEY WOULD RING THAT BELL. 00:07:12.399 --> 00:07:14.667 GO, "BONG-BONG, BONG-BONG, BONG-BONG." 00:07:14.734 --> 00:07:16.735 AND EVERYBODY ON THE ISLAND KNEW 00:07:16.803 --> 00:07:19.104 THAT HERE COMES ANOTHER GROUP OF HEATHENS. 00:07:19.172 --> 00:07:20.739 WE WERE CALLED HEATHENS. 00:07:20.807 --> 00:07:21.740 REALLY? 00:07:21.808 --> 00:07:23.042 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:07:23.109 --> 00:07:25.644 "WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PROCESS THESE HEATHENS, 00:07:25.712 --> 00:07:28.447 AND WE'RE GONNA SEND THEM ALL BACK TO CHINA," 00:07:28.515 --> 00:07:32.584 BECAUSE THIS STATION WAS BUILT NOT TO WELCOME THE CHINESE, 00:07:32.652 --> 00:07:36.889 BUT IT WAS USED TO DEPORT THE CHINESE BACK TO CHINA, 00:07:36.956 --> 00:07:40.826 ACCORDING TO THE EXCLUSION ACT OF 1882 TO 1924. 00:07:40.894 --> 00:07:45.431 THIS IS THE IMMIGRATION BARRACKS WHERE ALL THE CHINESE STAYED 00:07:45.498 --> 00:07:47.232 BETWEEN 1910 AND 1941, 00:07:47.300 --> 00:07:50.135 PROVING THE RIGHT TO ENTER AMERICA. 00:07:50.203 --> 00:07:53.038 SO THESE ARE THE ORIGINAL BARRACKS? 00:07:53.106 --> 00:07:55.941 THIS IS THE ORIGINAL BARRACKS, YES. 00:07:56.009 --> 00:08:00.279 EXACTLY, WE HAVE RE-CREATED TO GIVE HISTORIC RESTORATION, 00:08:00.347 --> 00:08:03.916 TO GIVE THE FEELING OF HOW THE IMMIGRANTS FELT 00:08:03.983 --> 00:08:05.718 WHEN THEY STAYED HERE. 00:08:05.785 --> 00:08:07.686 WHAT HAVE WE GOT IN HERE? 00:08:07.754 --> 00:08:09.221 OH, THIS IS -- 00:08:09.289 --> 00:08:11.523 YOU HAVE A WHOLE, UH... 00:08:11.591 --> 00:08:14.126 LET'S GO IN HERE AND... 00:08:14.194 --> 00:08:17.262 WE CAN KIND OF GO AROUND HERE. 00:08:17.330 --> 00:08:18.964 SO, THIS IS -- 00:08:19.032 --> 00:08:21.934 THIS IS THE WOMEN'S BEDROOM. 00:08:22.002 --> 00:08:23.702 THIS IS WHERE THEY STAYED. 00:08:23.770 --> 00:08:26.538 THE OLDER WOMEN WOULD STAY ON THE BOTTOM. 00:08:26.606 --> 00:08:29.508 THE YOUNGER CHILDREN WOULD STAY ON THE TOP. 00:08:29.576 --> 00:08:32.578 AND THIS IS THE WAY THEY LIVE 24 HOURS A DAY. 00:08:32.645 --> 00:08:35.414 THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO LEAVE THIS ROOM. 00:08:35.482 --> 00:08:38.017 THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO ANYWHERE 00:08:38.084 --> 00:08:41.387 EXCEPT FOR THREE MEALS A DAY IN THE MAIN BUILDING. 00:08:41.454 --> 00:08:44.056 AND THIS IS HOW TOTALLY THEY KEPT HERE, 00:08:44.124 --> 00:08:45.591 AND THEY KEPT HERE 00:08:45.658 --> 00:08:48.494 UNTIL THEY PROVED THE RIGHT TO ENTER AMERICA. 00:08:48.561 --> 00:08:52.197 NOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE STAYED IN THESE BARRACKS? 00:08:52.265 --> 00:08:56.035 IN THIS ROOM ALONE -- IT'S ABOUT A 35x35 ROOM -- 00:08:56.102 --> 00:08:58.804 THERE ARE 96 BUNKS IN THIS ROOM. 00:08:58.872 --> 00:09:02.241 HOWEVER, IT'S NOT AS CROWDED AS YOU THINK. 00:09:02.308 --> 00:09:05.544 IN THE MORNING, THESE BUNKS CAN FOLD UP, 00:09:05.612 --> 00:09:09.314 AND THEY CAN PROVIDE ROOM FOR CHILDREN TO PLAY, 00:09:09.382 --> 00:09:12.151 FOR PEOPLE TO DO THEIR DAILY WORK 00:09:12.218 --> 00:09:15.320 SEWING AND READING AND JUST GOSSIPING. 00:09:15.388 --> 00:09:17.623 AND PEOPLE HUNG THE LAUNDRY UP ACROSS HERE? 00:09:17.691 --> 00:09:19.291 YES. 00:09:19.359 --> 00:09:22.061 THEY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND -- THERE WERE NO WASHING MACHINES. 00:09:22.128 --> 00:09:24.730 THEY FELT THAT THIS IS THE ONLY WAY THEY CAN DO IT, 00:09:24.798 --> 00:09:26.965 SO THEY HUNG THE LAUNDRY WHERE THEY SLEPT 00:09:27.033 --> 00:09:28.867 AND KEPT THE BELONGINGS WITH THEM. 00:09:28.935 --> 00:09:30.703 THESE WERE VERY VALUABLE THINGS. 00:09:30.770 --> 00:09:32.938 THESE ARE THINGS THEY BROUGHT FROM CHINA. 00:09:33.006 --> 00:09:36.108 HOW MUCH STUFF WERE THEY ALLOWED TO BRING IN? 00:09:36.176 --> 00:09:38.577 OH, THEY'RE ALLOWED A TRUNK OR TWO. 00:09:38.645 --> 00:09:41.447 BUT IN CHINA, THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT MUCH. 00:09:41.514 --> 00:09:43.982 THAT'S WHY THEY COMING TO AMERICA, 00:09:44.050 --> 00:09:45.918 BECAUSE THEY WERE VERY POOR, 00:09:45.985 --> 00:09:48.320 AND CHINA WAS TOTALLY DEVASTATED 00:09:48.388 --> 00:09:50.155 BY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC -- 00:09:50.223 --> 00:09:51.990 SO THEY COULD HAVE GOTTEN 00:09:52.058 --> 00:09:54.159 ALMOST EVERYTHING THEY WANTED TO 00:09:54.227 --> 00:09:55.694 IN A SUITCASE LIKE THIS? 00:09:55.762 --> 00:09:57.129 RIGHT. 00:09:57.197 --> 00:10:00.366 AND THEY HAVE THE MEDICINE, THEY HAVE THE CLOTHING, 00:10:00.433 --> 00:10:02.167 THEY HAVE THEIR DINNERWARE, 00:10:02.235 --> 00:10:04.570 THEY HAVE THEIR BEAUTY EQUIPMENT, 00:10:04.637 --> 00:10:07.673 WHATEVER THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE IN THIS ONE CASE. 00:10:07.741 --> 00:10:09.475 WOW. 00:10:09.542 --> 00:10:12.311 DID WE HAVE SOMEONE WHO WAS ACTUALLY HERE WITH THE GROUP? 00:10:12.379 --> 00:10:13.445 YES, LAI KING, HERE. 00:10:13.513 --> 00:10:14.680 CAN YOU COME OVER HERE 00:10:14.748 --> 00:10:16.515 AND TALK WITH US JUST A SECOND? 00:10:16.583 --> 00:10:17.616 YES. CERTAINLY. 00:10:17.684 --> 00:10:21.053 NOW, WERE YOU IN A ROOM LIKE THIS? 00:10:21.121 --> 00:10:24.623 UM, I REMEMBER WHEN WE CAME IN 1933. 00:10:24.691 --> 00:10:27.493 I DO NOT REMEMBER THE BUNK BEDS. 00:10:27.560 --> 00:10:31.330 UM, I REMEMBER THAT WE WERE SEGREGATED, 00:10:31.398 --> 00:10:33.432 UM, BECAUSE WE WERE WOMEN, 00:10:33.500 --> 00:10:36.635 SO MY MOTHER, LAI HONG, LAI WA, AND I, 00:10:36.703 --> 00:10:39.304 WERE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER. 00:10:39.372 --> 00:10:40.506 YOUR SISTERS? 00:10:40.573 --> 00:10:43.042 MY SISTERS, UH-HUH. OH, YES. 00:10:43.109 --> 00:10:46.045 NOW, WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THIS 00:10:46.112 --> 00:10:48.013 WHEN YOU GOT OFF THE BOAT? 00:10:48.081 --> 00:10:51.283 THIS WAS YOUR FIRST EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA. 00:10:51.351 --> 00:10:53.686 AT THAT TIME, BEING SO YOUNG, 00:10:53.753 --> 00:10:57.389 I REALLY DIDN'T THINK VERY MUCH ABOUT THIS PLACE. 00:10:57.457 --> 00:10:59.992 HOWEVER, WE WERE KIND OF SHOCKED 00:11:00.060 --> 00:11:04.530 IN THE SENSE THAT THE WINDOWS AND THE DOORS WERE BARRED, OKAY? 00:11:04.597 --> 00:11:06.065 AND MY MOTHER SAID, 00:11:06.132 --> 00:11:08.867 "OH, MY, THIS LOOKS LIKE A PRISON, ISN'T IT?" 00:11:08.935 --> 00:11:11.103 BUT WE WERE NOT ACTUAL PRISONERS. 00:11:11.171 --> 00:11:12.671 AND WE WERE FOLLOWED. 00:11:12.739 --> 00:11:16.008 WHENEVER WE WENT OUT TO EAT, WE WERE FOLLOWED, 00:11:16.076 --> 00:11:18.043 WHEN WE WENT TO THE BATHROOM. 00:11:18.111 --> 00:11:21.413 WE WERE FOLLOWED BACK HERE FROM THE DINING COMMON. 00:11:21.481 --> 00:11:24.683 AND THE IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL WOULD LOCK THE DOOR 00:11:24.751 --> 00:11:26.385 AND THEY WOULD STAND BACK 00:11:26.453 --> 00:11:29.922 AND KIND OF PEER THROUGH THE WINDOW AND LOOKED AT US. 00:11:29.989 --> 00:11:32.858 Chow: ONE ESSENTIAL THING IS -- LOOK AT THE TOILETS -- 00:11:32.926 --> 00:11:34.259 YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY. 00:11:34.327 --> 00:11:36.595 CHINESE WOMEN ARE VERY, VERY, VERY SHY. 00:11:36.663 --> 00:11:39.498 SO YOU THINK THEY GONNA SIT THERE AND GO TO TOILET 00:11:39.566 --> 00:11:41.033 AND LOOKING AT EACH OTHER? 00:11:41.101 --> 00:11:42.568 NO. 00:11:42.635 --> 00:11:44.770 WHAT THEY DO IS THEY HAVE DEVELOP A SYSTEM 00:11:44.838 --> 00:11:46.438 TO GIVE THEM THEIR OWN PRIVACY. 00:11:46.506 --> 00:11:49.008 THERE ARE PAPER BAGS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STEP. 00:11:49.075 --> 00:11:51.176 EVERY WOMAN THAT COME INTO THIS TOILET 00:11:51.244 --> 00:11:52.978 WOULD CARRY A LARGE PAPER BAG. 00:11:53.046 --> 00:11:55.314 AND WHEN THEY COME AND SIT ON THE TOILET, 00:11:55.382 --> 00:11:57.383 THEY PUT THAT PAPER OVER THEIR HEAD, 00:11:57.450 --> 00:11:59.785 AND THEY CAN HAVE THEIR PAPER-BAG SOLITUDE. 00:11:59.853 --> 00:12:01.086 REALLY? 00:12:01.154 --> 00:12:03.055 THEN THEY CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER, 00:12:03.123 --> 00:12:05.190 BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO SEE EACH OTHER 00:12:05.258 --> 00:12:06.558 DOING THEIR DAILY NEEDS. 00:12:06.626 --> 00:12:07.593 REALLY? 00:12:07.660 --> 00:12:09.028 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:12:09.095 --> 00:12:11.730 SO NOW, THIS IS THEIR WAY OF OVERCOMING 00:12:11.798 --> 00:12:15.267 THE WAY THAT THEY ARE TREATED IN THIS BARRACKS. 00:12:15.335 --> 00:12:17.036 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING THAT -- 00:12:17.103 --> 00:12:20.072 WELL, IT'S A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF NOT BEING SENSITIVE 00:12:20.140 --> 00:12:22.508 TO UNDERSTANDING THE CULTURE OF THE PEOPLE 00:12:22.575 --> 00:12:23.842 WHO ARE COMING IN. 00:12:23.910 --> 00:12:24.843 RIGHT. 00:12:24.911 --> 00:12:26.311 YOUR MOTHER WAS HERE? 00:12:26.379 --> 00:12:28.047 THAT'S RIGHT. ASK HER. 00:12:28.114 --> 00:12:29.381 SARAH, SHIRLEY. 00:12:29.449 --> 00:12:32.518 WHAT KIND OF STORIES DID YOU HEAR FROM YOUR MOTHER 00:12:32.585 --> 00:12:34.486 ABOUT WHAT IT WAS LIKE HERE? 00:12:34.554 --> 00:12:35.954 ARE YOU KIDDING? 00:12:36.022 --> 00:12:38.424 SHE NEVER WANTED TO TALK ABOUT ANGEL ISLAND. 00:12:38.491 --> 00:12:39.758 IT WAS SHAMEFUL. 00:12:39.826 --> 00:12:41.894 MY FATHER ABSOLUTELY FORBID MY MOTHER 00:12:41.961 --> 00:12:43.529 TO EVER EVEN MENTION IT. 00:12:43.596 --> 00:12:45.531 SHE WAS ONE OF THE HONEST PEOPLE. 00:12:45.598 --> 00:12:47.032 MY MOTHER WAS A TEACHER. 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:49.234 TALK ABOUT WOMEN, EDUCATION IN CHINA -- 00:12:49.302 --> 00:12:50.769 WELL, SHE ACTUALLY WENT 00:12:50.837 --> 00:12:53.138 TO A CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY TEACHERS' COLLEGE, 00:12:53.206 --> 00:12:55.074 AND SHE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER, 00:12:55.141 --> 00:12:57.576 AND THAT'S THE ONLY WAY ANY WOMEN IN CHINA 00:12:57.644 --> 00:12:59.611 COULD HAVE GOTTEN ANY EDUCATION. 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.181 SHE CAME HERE -- SHE'S A VERY PROUD LADY -- 00:13:02.248 --> 00:13:03.549 AND SHE COULDN'T ANSWER 00:13:03.616 --> 00:13:05.918 ANY OF THOSE DUMB QUESTIONS THEY ASKED. 00:13:05.985 --> 00:13:07.286 THAT IMMIGRATION ASKED? 00:13:07.354 --> 00:13:08.354 RIGHT. RIGHT. 00:13:08.421 --> 00:13:09.888 SO SHE GOT DEPORTED, 00:13:09.956 --> 00:13:12.491 AND MY FATHER AND SHE HAD TO GO BACK TO SHANGHAI, 00:13:12.559 --> 00:13:14.226 AND CAME BACK THE SECOND TIME. 00:13:14.294 --> 00:13:16.829 AND THIS TIME, THINGS WERE A LITTLE EASIER. 00:13:16.896 --> 00:13:20.299 WHEN I ASKED MY PARENTS WHERE WE CAME IN WHEN I WAS 5, 00:13:20.367 --> 00:13:22.935 MY PARENTS SAY, "ANGEL ISLAND -- SHH!" 00:13:23.003 --> 00:13:25.304 YOU KNOW THAT I RAN BACK TO SCHOOL 00:13:25.372 --> 00:13:26.672 AND TOLD THE TEACHER 00:13:26.740 --> 00:13:29.775 THAT WE CAME THROUGH "ANGEL-ISLAND-SHH" AS ONE WORD? 00:13:29.843 --> 00:13:31.176 I DIDN'T REALIZE -- 00:13:31.244 --> 00:13:32.678 "ANGEL-ISLAND-SHH"? 00:13:32.746 --> 00:13:35.748 AND I THOUGHT IT WAS ANGEL -- A-N-G-E-L-I-S-L-A-N-D, 00:13:35.815 --> 00:13:37.282 AND END IN "S-H." 00:13:37.350 --> 00:13:38.784 "SHH"? 00:13:38.852 --> 00:13:40.185 ANGEL-ISLAND-SHH. 00:13:40.253 --> 00:13:41.653 RIGHT. 00:13:41.721 --> 00:13:44.690 AND I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS NOT ONE WORD UNTIL I GREW UP. 00:13:44.758 --> 00:13:45.858 REALLY? 00:13:45.925 --> 00:13:47.226 YES. 00:13:47.293 --> 00:13:49.528 AND THAT'S WHY IT STARTED ME ON THIS CRUSADE. 00:13:49.596 --> 00:13:51.030 THAT'S HOW IT BEGAN. 00:13:51.097 --> 00:13:54.366 SO IT'S NO LONGER "ANGEL-ISLAND-SHH"? 00:13:54.434 --> 00:13:56.201 IT'S "ANGEL ISLAND." 00:13:56.269 --> 00:13:58.537 ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION. 00:13:58.605 --> 00:14:02.408 THIS IS WHERE MY PARENTS AND MY FOREBEARS CAME THROUGH, 00:14:02.475 --> 00:14:05.911 AND THIS IS HOW I BECAME AN AMERICAN. 00:14:05.979 --> 00:14:08.814 [ MAN SHOUTS COMMAND ] 00:14:08.882 --> 00:14:10.482 [ GIRL SCREAMS ] 00:14:10.550 --> 00:14:13.152 WELL, VICTOR, HERE WE ARE 00:14:13.219 --> 00:14:16.455 IN PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC SPOTS 00:14:16.523 --> 00:14:18.357 ON THIS HISTORIC ISLAND. 00:14:18.425 --> 00:14:20.392 WELL, THIS IS CAMP REYNOLDS. 00:14:20.460 --> 00:14:22.094 IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1863 00:14:22.162 --> 00:14:25.264 BECAUSE OF PUBLIC CONCERN OF CONFEDERATE RAIDERS 00:14:25.331 --> 00:14:26.632 COMING INTO THE BAY. 00:14:26.700 --> 00:14:28.100 AND BEHIND US 00:14:28.168 --> 00:14:30.769 WE HAVE THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF WOODEN BUILDINGS 00:14:30.837 --> 00:14:33.572 FROM THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD IN THE UNITED STATES. 00:14:33.640 --> 00:14:34.740 REALLY? 00:14:34.808 --> 00:14:35.808 YES, WE DO. 00:14:35.875 --> 00:14:37.176 I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT 00:14:37.243 --> 00:14:40.012 THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF WOODEN BUILDINGS 00:14:40.080 --> 00:14:43.048 FROM THE CIVIL WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN IN VIRGINIA 00:14:43.116 --> 00:14:45.684 OR MISSISSIPPI OR GEORGIA OR SOMEWHERE. 00:14:45.752 --> 00:14:47.553 WELL, THAT'S SIMILAR TO THE BELIEF 00:14:47.620 --> 00:14:49.922 THAT THERE WASN'T VERY MUCH CIVIL WAR ACTIVITY 00:14:49.989 --> 00:14:52.324 HERE ON THE WEST COAST, BUT THERE ACTUALLY WAS. 00:14:52.392 --> 00:14:54.426 NOW, WHY DID THEY FEEL IT WAS NECESSARY 00:14:54.494 --> 00:14:56.829 TO STATION UNION TROOPS HERE BACK IN THE 1860s? 00:14:56.896 --> 00:14:58.797 WELL, THERE WERE THREE OBJECTIVES 00:14:58.865 --> 00:15:01.433 THAT THE CONFEDERATES WERE LOOKING TO GO AFTER. 00:15:01.501 --> 00:15:03.502 ONE WAS THE LARGEST MUNITIONS PLANT 00:15:03.570 --> 00:15:05.337 ON THE WEST COAST, IN BENECIA. 00:15:05.405 --> 00:15:07.706 WE ALSO HAD THE U.S. MINT IN SAN FRANCISCO 00:15:07.774 --> 00:15:10.909 AND THE GOLD AND SILVER FIELDS UP IN NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA. 00:15:10.977 --> 00:15:13.612 SO, THEY THOUGHT THAT THE CONFEDERATES 00:15:13.680 --> 00:15:16.815 MIGHT TRY TO RAID SAN FRANCISCO, SO THEY PUT -- 00:15:16.883 --> 00:15:18.517 HOW MANY TROOPS WERE HERE? 00:15:18.585 --> 00:15:21.286 THERE WAS APPROXIMATELY 200 STATIONED HERE 00:15:21.354 --> 00:15:23.088 DURING THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD. 00:15:23.156 --> 00:15:26.258 NOW, HOW DID THESE BUILDINGS SURVIVE ALL OF THIS TIME, 00:15:26.326 --> 00:15:28.794 BECAUSE THEY'RE SITTING THERE DESERTED NOW? 00:15:28.862 --> 00:15:32.164 WELL, THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION IN CALIFORNIA 00:15:32.232 --> 00:15:35.134 BOARDED UP THE BUILDINGS AND PUT NEW ROOFS ON THEM 00:15:35.201 --> 00:15:36.969 WITH THE IDEA THAT IN THE FUTURE, 00:15:37.037 --> 00:15:38.737 WE COULD RESTORE THE BUILDINGS. 00:15:38.805 --> 00:15:41.006 AND YOU HAVE THESE KIND OF REENACTMENTS OUT HERE 00:15:41.074 --> 00:15:42.441 FROM TIME TO TIME 00:15:42.509 --> 00:15:45.110 SO THAT THE VISITORS CAN GET A SENSE OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE 00:15:45.178 --> 00:15:47.312 YES. THIS GROUP IS CALLED THE CAL-100. 00:15:47.380 --> 00:15:49.281 IT WAS A GROUP OF 100 VOLUNTEERS 00:15:49.349 --> 00:15:51.884 THAT WENT BACK AND FOUGHT WITH THE 2nd MASSACHUSETTS 00:15:51.951 --> 00:15:53.285 DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 00:15:53.353 --> 00:15:54.520 FROM CALIFORNIA. 00:15:54.587 --> 00:15:56.555 IT REALLY HAPPENED HERE. THIS ISN'T A MUSEUM. 00:15:56.623 --> 00:15:58.490 AND FOR ME IT'S VERY SPECIAL. 00:15:58.558 --> 00:16:00.893 MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER, ABRAHAM LOWEN, 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:02.327 WAS IN THE CAL-100, 00:16:02.395 --> 00:16:05.064 SO WE ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS. 00:16:05.131 --> 00:16:07.466 AND FOR ME, BEING BORN IN THE BAY AREA 00:16:07.534 --> 00:16:08.934 IN SAN FRANCISCO, 00:16:09.002 --> 00:16:11.337 MY GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER COMING FROM CALIFORNIA, 00:16:11.404 --> 00:16:12.738 IT'S D�J� VU. 00:16:12.806 --> 00:16:14.773 IT'S HISTORY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. 00:16:14.841 --> 00:16:16.141 IT'S VERY REAL. 00:16:16.209 --> 00:16:18.944 WELL, IT'S PART OF WHAT ANGEL ISLAND IS ALL ABOUT. 00:16:19.012 --> 00:16:20.312 THAT'S RIGHT. 00:16:20.380 --> 00:16:22.147 WE COME OUT HERE FOR DIFFERENT CAMPOUTS, 00:16:22.215 --> 00:16:24.983 AND AT NIGHT WHEN IT'S QUIET, YOU CAN HEAR THE PAST. 00:16:25.051 --> 00:16:26.485 IT'S NOT FREEWAYS AND CARS. 00:16:26.553 --> 00:16:29.688 YOU CAN HEAR THE PAST. THE CIVIL WAR IS HERE. 00:16:32.525 --> 00:16:35.327 Howser: YOU KNOW, ANGEL ISLAND ISN'T THAT BIG, 00:16:35.395 --> 00:16:37.763 AND THERE'S ONLY ONE KIND OF BUMPY, OLD ROAD 00:16:37.831 --> 00:16:39.264 THAT GOES AROUND IT. 00:16:39.332 --> 00:16:41.700 BUT IT SEEMED EVERYWHERE WE WENT ON THE ISLAND 00:16:41.768 --> 00:16:44.103 WAS LIKE A CHAPTER OUT OF A HISTORY BOOK. 00:16:44.170 --> 00:16:45.938 HUELL, I BROUGHT YOU HERE 00:16:46.006 --> 00:16:48.941 BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS 00:16:49.009 --> 00:16:51.076 OF THE HISTORY OF ANGEL ISLAND. 00:16:51.144 --> 00:16:52.611 DURING WORLD WAR II, 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:55.147 THE WHOLE ISLAND WAS CALLED FORT McDOWELL. 00:16:55.215 --> 00:16:58.417 AND TODAY, THIS CONSTRUCTION THAT YOU SEE AROUND YOU 00:16:58.485 --> 00:17:00.285 REPRESENTS THAT WHOLE ERA. 00:17:00.353 --> 00:17:02.287 THIS WAS THE PROCESSING UNIT 00:17:02.355 --> 00:17:06.325 FOR SOLDIERS WHO WERE GOING OFF INTO THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN. 00:17:06.393 --> 00:17:08.127 THE ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION 00:17:08.194 --> 00:17:10.963 ACTUALLY STARTED DURING THE CIVIL WAR. 00:17:11.031 --> 00:17:13.932 BUT SLOWLY, SLOWLY, THE MILITARY BUILT UP 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.236 ALL OF THESE BUILDINGS THAT YOU SEE AROUND YOU. 00:17:17.303 --> 00:17:20.506 AND MAJOR CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN WORLD WAR I, 00:17:20.573 --> 00:17:22.141 AND BY WORLD WAR II, 00:17:22.208 --> 00:17:25.711 THEY HAD COMPLETED THE GYMNASIUM STRAIGHT AHEAD OF US, 00:17:25.779 --> 00:17:29.381 THE P.X. OFF TO THE LEFT, THE GUARDHOUSE DOWN BELOW US. 00:17:29.449 --> 00:17:33.018 NOW, HOW MANY MEN PASSED THROUGH HERE 00:17:33.086 --> 00:17:34.620 OVER THE YEARS? 00:17:34.688 --> 00:17:36.522 IS THERE ANY COUNT? 00:17:36.589 --> 00:17:38.190 I DON'T HAVE ANY CLUE. 00:17:38.258 --> 00:17:40.893 IT'S THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF MEN. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:42.494 DURING WORLD WAR II, 00:17:42.562 --> 00:17:46.131 THERE WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY 8,000 MEN ON THE ISLAND 00:17:46.199 --> 00:17:48.801 AT FORT McDOWELL HERE DURING A DAY. 00:17:48.868 --> 00:17:51.537 THERE WERE SO MANY MEN THAT THEY HAD TO TAKE SHIFTS 00:17:51.604 --> 00:17:53.539 AT FEEDING THEM THROUGH THE CHOW HALL -- 00:17:53.606 --> 00:17:54.873 3,000 AT A TIME. 00:17:54.941 --> 00:17:57.643 NOW, IS ALL THIS JUST SITTING HERE 00:17:57.711 --> 00:17:59.211 KIND OF DECAYING? 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.146 WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO IT? 00:18:01.214 --> 00:18:03.615 WELL, THAT TAKES LOTS OF MONEY 00:18:03.683 --> 00:18:06.285 TO PRESERVE BUILDINGS LIKE THIS. 00:18:06.353 --> 00:18:09.655 WE HAVE RESTORED THE GUARDHOUSE DOWN BELOW, 00:18:09.723 --> 00:18:12.458 WHICH IS THE NEW VISITORS' CENTER. 00:18:12.525 --> 00:18:16.328 AND WE'D LIKE TO SEE SOME OTHER BUILDINGS RESTORED, 00:18:16.396 --> 00:18:20.432 BUT THIS IS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE. 00:18:20.500 --> 00:18:24.470 WE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IT IN A STATE OF ARRESTED DECAY 00:18:24.537 --> 00:18:27.840 UNTIL WE SEE OTHER FUNDING FOR RESTORATION. 00:18:27.907 --> 00:18:33.979 SO, THE REALLY SIGNIFICANT PART THIS PLAYS TODAY 00:18:34.047 --> 00:18:36.782 IS A REMINDER TO THE, I GUESS, 00:18:36.850 --> 00:18:39.418 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN 00:18:39.486 --> 00:18:42.821 WHO PASSED THROUGH HERE IN THE PAST 90 YEARS. 00:18:42.889 --> 00:18:44.156 MM-HMM. 00:18:44.224 --> 00:18:47.026 WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE STATIONED HERE -- 00:18:47.093 --> 00:18:50.696 SOME MEN STAFF THE CHAPEL UP ABOVE ON WEEKENDS -- 00:18:50.764 --> 00:18:54.099 AND THEY CAN GIVE US STORIES OF FORT McDOWELL 00:18:54.167 --> 00:18:56.935 WHEN THE THOUSANDS OF MEN WERE HERE. 00:18:57.003 --> 00:18:59.505 MY FEELING IS, WHEN I COME HERE, 00:18:59.572 --> 00:19:02.207 IS I CAN HEAR GLENN MILLER PLAYING. 00:19:02.275 --> 00:19:05.144 HIS SOUND IS WAFTING THROUGH THESE HALLS 00:19:05.211 --> 00:19:06.812 OF THESE BUILDINGS. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:09.782 A LOT OF GHOST STORIES AROUND HERE, RIGHT? 00:19:09.849 --> 00:19:12.651 A LOT OF GHOSTS, A LOT OF MEMORIES FROM ARMY DAYS. 00:19:12.719 --> 00:19:13.886 SURE. 00:19:13.953 --> 00:19:15.721 THIS WAS THE MUSTERING-OUT POINT 00:19:15.789 --> 00:19:17.322 IF YOU SURVIVED WORLD WAR II. 00:19:17.390 --> 00:19:18.857 A BIG WELCOME-HOME BANNER 00:19:18.925 --> 00:19:21.093 WAS PLACED ON THE SIDE OF THE ISLAND. 00:19:21.161 --> 00:19:23.696 YOU SAW IT AS YOU CAME HOME ABOARD SHIP. 00:19:23.763 --> 00:19:25.297 YOU DOCKED DOWN BELOW, 00:19:25.365 --> 00:19:28.434 YOU WERE PUT INTO A BARRACKS, YOU WERE PROCESSED OUT, 00:19:28.501 --> 00:19:31.070 AND YOU WENT DOWN TO THE PAYMASTER BUILDING 00:19:31.137 --> 00:19:33.972 TO RECEIVE YOUR LAST CHECK BEFORE YOU WENT HOME. 00:19:34.040 --> 00:19:35.374 WOW. 00:19:35.442 --> 00:19:39.211 SO, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE ALIVE TODAY 00:19:39.279 --> 00:19:41.046 SEEING THIS PROGRAM 00:19:41.114 --> 00:19:44.049 WHO WOULD REMEMBER BEING HERE. 00:19:44.117 --> 00:19:48.120 I HOPE THEY HAVE FOND MEMORIES OF THE PLACE. 00:19:48.188 --> 00:19:52.324 THIS WAS THEIR CHANCE TO GO HOME FROM THE WAR. 00:19:52.392 --> 00:19:53.559 WHOA. 00:19:58.064 --> 00:20:00.866 Howser: TRAVELING FROM OLD FORT McDOWELL, 00:20:00.934 --> 00:20:03.002 NEXT WE HAD TO UNLOCK SOME GATES 00:20:03.069 --> 00:20:05.671 AND DRIVE DOWN A LITTLE ENTRANCE ROAD 00:20:05.739 --> 00:20:07.439 IN ORDER TO GET TO ANOTHER 00:20:07.507 --> 00:20:09.975 OF ANGEL ISLAND'S HISTORIC SITES -- 00:20:10.043 --> 00:20:11.710 THIS ONE, RATHER OBSCURE. 00:20:11.778 --> 00:20:13.445 HUELL, I BROUGHT YOU HERE 00:20:13.513 --> 00:20:17.516 BECAUSE ANGEL ISLAND ALSO HAS A BIT OF COLD-WAR HISTORY. 00:20:17.584 --> 00:20:21.086 STORED 50 FEET BELOW US WERE SOME NIKE MISSILES. 00:20:21.154 --> 00:20:24.623 YOU'RE STANDING ON THE OPENING VAULT RIGHT HERE. 00:20:24.691 --> 00:20:27.826 THE MISSILES WERE SLID OUT ON THESE RACKS. 00:20:27.894 --> 00:20:29.762 DURING THE 1950s AND '60s, 00:20:29.829 --> 00:20:32.197 WE HAD ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES RIGHT HERE ON THE ISLAND. 00:20:32.265 --> 00:20:33.532 HARD TO BELIEVE TODAY. 00:20:33.600 --> 00:20:37.136 FINALLY, THE MILITARY GAVE UP ON NIKE MISSILES 00:20:37.203 --> 00:20:40.706 AND CLOSED THIS SITE DOWN -- AND THE ISLAND -- 00:20:40.774 --> 00:20:42.541 FOR THEIR USE IN 1962. 00:20:42.609 --> 00:20:45.177 SO, THIS HAS BEEN SITTING HERE 00:20:45.245 --> 00:20:48.480 DESERTED LIKE THIS SINCE THE EARLY '60s? 00:20:48.548 --> 00:20:50.015 CORRECT. 00:20:50.083 --> 00:20:51.383 WOW. 00:20:51.451 --> 00:20:53.585 SO, OVER THE YEARS, 00:20:53.653 --> 00:20:58.023 ANGEL ISLAND HAS ALWAYS BEEN CONSIDERED 00:20:58.091 --> 00:21:03.562 MILITARILY SIGNIFICANT FOR ONE REASON OR THE OTHER. 00:21:03.630 --> 00:21:05.931 BEING IN THE CENTER OF THE BAY, 00:21:05.999 --> 00:21:08.400 IT'S A VERY STRATEGIC LOCATION -- 00:21:08.468 --> 00:21:10.736 EVEN FOR MISSILES TO SHOOT DOWN 00:21:10.804 --> 00:21:14.506 THE RUSSIAN BACKFIRE BOMBER THAT WERE OUTSIDE THE GATE, 00:21:14.574 --> 00:21:16.875 SUPPOSEDLY COMING TO ATTACK US. 00:21:16.943 --> 00:21:20.012 LOOK AT ALL THIS STUFF OVER HERE. 00:21:20.080 --> 00:21:23.048 THIS KIND OF STUFF FASCINATES ME 00:21:23.116 --> 00:21:26.785 BECAUSE IT'S JUST SITTING HERE ALL RUSTED, 00:21:26.853 --> 00:21:30.289 AND YET, JUST A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO, 00:21:30.357 --> 00:21:34.159 THIS PLACE WAS JUST BRISTLING WITH MISSILES 00:21:34.227 --> 00:21:36.261 AND PERSONNEL OVER HERE 00:21:36.329 --> 00:21:39.999 TO GUARD US AGAINST THE COMMUNIST THREAT, 00:21:40.066 --> 00:21:42.534 AGAINST THE COMMUNIST BOMBERS 00:21:42.602 --> 00:21:46.772 THAT WOULD BE COMING OVER TO BOMB SAN FRANCISCO. 00:21:46.840 --> 00:21:50.776 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE MISSILES SITTING UP IN THE AIR 00:21:50.844 --> 00:21:54.113 AT NEAR-PERFECT POSITION, 90 DEGREES UP, 00:21:54.180 --> 00:21:56.615 SO THAT THEY COULD BE FIRED? 00:21:56.683 --> 00:21:58.917 AND NOW IT'S ALL RUSTED OUT. 00:22:01.021 --> 00:22:04.890 AND LOOK WHAT WE FOUND HERE ON THE SIDE OF PART OF THIS -- 00:22:04.958 --> 00:22:08.660 EVIDENTLY, THE NIKE MISSILE SECTION THAT WAS BASED HERE 00:22:08.728 --> 00:22:10.662 WAS CALLED "THE BEE SECTION," 00:22:10.730 --> 00:22:12.631 SO THEY'VE DRAWN A BEE HERE, 00:22:12.699 --> 00:22:15.501 AND RIGHT AT THE TAIL IS A NIKE MISSILE. 00:22:15.568 --> 00:22:17.136 THE STINGER. 00:22:17.203 --> 00:22:20.105 NOW, THAT'S PART OF THE HISTORY OF THIS ISLAND, TOO. 00:22:20.173 --> 00:22:21.273 SURE. 00:22:21.341 --> 00:22:22.608 A LITTLE PIECE OF ART 00:22:22.676 --> 00:22:26.679 FROM THE COLD WAR ON ANGEL ISLAND -- 00:22:26.746 --> 00:22:29.948 "THE BEE SECTION." 00:22:30.016 --> 00:22:34.953 IT'S INTERESTING THAT ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS 00:22:35.021 --> 00:22:38.991 OF MILITARY HISTORY HERE HAVE BEEN SAVED -- 00:22:39.059 --> 00:22:43.529 CIVIL WAR, WORLD WAR I, WORLD WAR II, COLD WAR -- 00:22:43.596 --> 00:22:46.098 IT'S ALL HERE ON ONE ISLAND. 00:22:46.166 --> 00:22:50.002 A MICROCOSM OF THE DEFENSE OF OUR NATION. 00:22:50.070 --> 00:22:55.074 BUT IT'S ALSO INTERESTING THAT NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED HERE, 00:22:55.141 --> 00:22:59.278 FOR ALL THIS MILITARY BUILDUP OVER A CENTURY. 00:22:59.346 --> 00:23:01.847 REALLY? THERE NEVER WAS? 00:23:01.915 --> 00:23:03.782 NO, NEVER IN ANGER. 00:23:05.785 --> 00:23:07.886 NOW, WE HAVE BEEN ON ANGEL ISLAND NOW 00:23:07.954 --> 00:23:09.288 FOR TWO DAYS. 00:23:09.356 --> 00:23:11.290 THIS IS THE END OF OUR SECOND DAY. 00:23:11.358 --> 00:23:14.126 WE'RE GETTING READY TO GO BACK OVER TO THE MAINLAND 00:23:14.194 --> 00:23:15.561 TOMORROW MORNING. 00:23:15.628 --> 00:23:17.863 AND DAN HAS BROUGHT US UP HERE. 00:23:17.931 --> 00:23:20.232 IT'S ABOUT, WHAT, 7:15 AT NIGHT? 00:23:20.300 --> 00:23:21.500 THAT'S CORRECT. 00:23:21.568 --> 00:23:24.169 AND HE'S BROUGHT US UP TO THE TOP OF... 00:23:24.237 --> 00:23:25.604 MT. LIVERMORE. 00:23:25.672 --> 00:23:28.340 ...WHICH IS THE HIGHEST POINT ON THE ISLAND. 00:23:28.408 --> 00:23:30.409 YES. IT'S 781 FEET HIGH. 00:23:30.477 --> 00:23:34.613 TO GIVE US A PARTING SHOT THAT YOU'RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE. 00:23:34.681 --> 00:23:36.982 IT IS THE MOST BREATHTAKING -- 00:23:37.050 --> 00:23:39.952 LOOK AT THIS VIEW OF SAN FRANCISCO. 00:23:40.020 --> 00:23:44.223 THIS IS WHAT YOU LIVE WITH OVER HERE EVERY DAY, ISN'T IT? 00:23:44.290 --> 00:23:46.091 THIS IS MY BACKYARD. 00:23:46.159 --> 00:23:48.093 GOSH! 00:23:48.161 --> 00:23:50.496 LOOK AT THIS SHOT. 00:23:50.563 --> 00:23:54.366 THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE. 00:23:54.434 --> 00:23:56.869 NOW, ALCATRAZ ISLAND IS JUST RIGHT OVER HERE. 00:23:56.936 --> 00:23:58.470 THAT'S IT. 00:23:58.538 --> 00:24:02.341 AND THAT'S THE ISLAND THAT'S GOTTEN ALL THE ATTENTION 00:24:02.409 --> 00:24:04.343 AND GETS ALL THE VISITORS. 00:24:04.411 --> 00:24:05.744 FAME, YES. 00:24:05.812 --> 00:24:09.014 THEY HAVE APPROXIMATELY A MILLION VISITORS A YEAR 00:24:09.082 --> 00:24:10.382 TO ALCATRAZ. 00:24:10.450 --> 00:24:13.752 PEOPLE STAY ABOUT AN HOUR, TWO HOURS, AND LEAVE. 00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:15.187 IT'S A NICE TOUR, 00:24:15.255 --> 00:24:18.590 BUT LOOK WHAT ALL WE HAVE HERE ON ANGEL ISLAND, 00:24:18.658 --> 00:24:20.659 AND FAR, FAR FEWER VISITORS. 00:24:20.727 --> 00:24:21.927 HOW MANY? 00:24:21.995 --> 00:24:23.862 PROBABLY 200,000 A YEAR, 00:24:23.930 --> 00:24:26.899 BUT AT LEAST PEOPLE STAY HERE ABOUT SIX HOURS 00:24:26.966 --> 00:24:28.300 BEFORE THEY LEAVE. 00:24:28.368 --> 00:24:29.868 THEY LOVE IT SO MUCH. 00:24:29.936 --> 00:24:32.971 WHY HAS THIS PLACE REMAINED SUCH A SECRET? 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:35.774 IT'S SITTING RIGHT HERE IN PLAIN VIEW 00:24:35.842 --> 00:24:37.343 FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE. 00:24:37.410 --> 00:24:41.180 I SUPPOSE WE NEED TO MAKE SOME MOVIES ABOUT THE PLACE. 00:24:41.247 --> 00:24:43.515 HUELL, WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT THIS PLACE 00:24:43.583 --> 00:24:45.117 IS LOOK RIGHT OVER THERE. 00:24:45.185 --> 00:24:48.153 THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LIVING OVER THERE -- 00:24:48.221 --> 00:24:50.089 DENSELY POPULATED CIVILIZATION -- 00:24:50.156 --> 00:24:51.423 BUT HERE, 00:24:51.491 --> 00:24:53.425 RIGHT IN THE CENTER OF THE BAY, 00:24:53.493 --> 00:24:54.893 WE HAVE THIS WONDERFUL, 00:24:54.961 --> 00:24:56.929 ABSOLUTELY PRISTINE NATURAL AREA 00:24:56.996 --> 00:24:58.731 WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME. 00:24:58.798 --> 00:25:02.001 AND IT'S A PROTECTED STATE PARK. IT WILL BE THIS WAY FOREVER. 00:25:02.068 --> 00:25:03.669 IT'S RIGHT IN THE DEED. 00:25:03.737 --> 00:25:06.805 AND WHEN THEY COME HERE, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO ENJOY 00:25:06.873 --> 00:25:09.208 ALL THIS WONDERFUL CULTURAL HISTORY 00:25:09.275 --> 00:25:10.776 SPANNING OVER 100 YEARS. 00:25:10.844 --> 00:25:14.380 THEY'LL BE ABLE TO WALK AROUND, GO WALK ALONG THE BEACHES, 00:25:14.447 --> 00:25:16.382 ENJOY ALL THIS PEACEFUL SERENITY 00:25:16.449 --> 00:25:18.650 THAT WE OFFER HERE ON THE ISLAND, 00:25:18.718 --> 00:25:21.887 AND THEY'LL GET THE FEELING THAT WE RANGERS HAVE -- 00:25:21.955 --> 00:25:25.157 THAT THIS IS TRULY THE JEWEL OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY. 00:25:26.626 --> 00:25:27.893 WELL, OUR ADVENTURE TO ANGEL ISLAND IS OVER.