San Francisco Loft Architecture, Minimum Security Prison Comparison
San Francisco loft apartments are designed with security features that resemble minimum security prisons, featuring restricted entrances and heavy doors. Observations of these modern living spaces suggest they could easily be converted into detention centers by simply adding bars to the windows. A visit to Folsom Prison for an article provided the basis for comparing these stylish urban residences to correctional facilities.
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00:01 Put on some clothes! And from the Twitter homepage with 58,274 followers for The Real Dvorak, I'm John C. Dvorak. As you told me that the undisclosed loft location is actually built as a minimum security prison intended to keep me in when appropriate. People haven't noticed this but I noticed this a number of years ago that all these you know these lofts that they've been building all over the country and San Francisco has a lot of them if you're actually taking analyze the way they're set up and there's a couple around the corner from the MeVeo offices by the way. All right the minimum security prison after you told me that John. Boom we got disconnected.
01:14 What is it with the minimum security prison in San Francisco? The first time I went to one of these specially built lofts in San Francisco, I noticed that they had, for one thing, you can't get into it except through usually one entrance or a couple of locked doors through the back, but they're extremely secure. but this is so secure that it's almost completely way over the top because there are apartment buildings all over the place that are built normally. Why are these places built like, you know, these, they're built like prisons. They have, it's impossible that you could be, all you have to do is just imagine putting bars on the windows and then you could lock people up for as long as you wanted. It's so true. Everything here is built like a prison door too. I mean, it's modern and it's stylish.
02:00 But now, you know, now that I think about it, it's like easy to lock me in, that's for sure. Yeah, you can never get out of there. I can't, I don't even think I can break these windows. Seriously, I don't think I can break through them. You could jump out the window, but they could put bars, like I said, if you put bars up, and I'd love to do a look and see how hard that would be, because I think most of these places have got set up so you could easily put bars up. I think it's just to imprison people. The first one I ran into was like, it was so much like a, because I actually years ago had visited a couple of prisons for an article.
02:38 including Folsom and It just reminded me so much of a person that it was like what is the do who wants to live here? I'm thinking to myself. Oh, okay. Okay. No more espresso for you my friend And I'm not talking about your place your place is roomy at least But that would be the other thing is what so what are you complaining about? We're feeding you You have a kitchen You got two bathrooms. What's your problem? I must say though a couple of things happened over the past few days that I'm really moving into survivalist mode, dude. I am We're gonna get water food cash. Well, please yeah, listen, so two things one, you know, I still have a credit card from the UK and you go online with your with your online bank and
