July 17, 2022. A little known history connected to Alcatraz Island hidden in plain sight at Aquatic Park that millions of tourists and locals have walked past countless times but never knew of its existence. I did some research recently corroborated by a few sites and found that the small pier and unassuming small building next to the larger Aquatic Park Pier is the original Pier 4 Alcatraz Pier where prisoners, staff, children of families living on Alcatraz who went to school in the city, authorized visitors, and supplies embarked and disembarked to and from Alcatraz Island back in the days!
So I went ahead and submitted the location of that “Pier 4 Alcatraz Pier” to google maps last night since it wasn’t on their maps and it seems to me that it was a significant part of Alcatraz history and San Francisco in general. Google Maps and most people probably didn’t know about it outside of SF old-timers. Google Maps confirmed and accepted it as shown in the image here and when searching for “Pier 4 Alcatraz Pier” on google maps, my own little slice of Google Maps…..cheers! 
(edit 2022-0720 I’ve since gotten Google Maps to add the label “Original” to the name so it’s now “Pier 4 Original Alcatraz Pier”, to give the name more clarity and avoid some potential confusions)
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