The
street called Cannery Row was only named that after John Steinbeck's
book came out. Originally, it was called Ocean View Avenue. The first
commercial fishing done in the area was around 1850 when Chinese
immigrant fishermen set up a fishing village now called "China Point".
The first canning operations began in 1902 by Otosaburo Noda and Harry
Malpas. The last sardine catch to be canned here was in 1964 and the
last of the canneries, which was processing squid, closed in 1971. The
final cannery to close, Hoven Food Products Corporation would later
become the home for the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is at the end of
Cannery Row. Many of the buildings on the row are rejuvenated buildings
from the cannery heydays.
Bridge between buildings of the Aeneas Sardine Product Company. Aeneas was a late comer in the industry, beginning operations in 1945.
A closer shot of the bridge between buildings.
The Monterey Canning Company began operating in 1918. This was the warehouse building and is the original building built in 1918.
Another view of the Monterey Canning Company warehouse building.
One of the many Canning to warehouse bridges that cross Cannery Row.
Cannery Row at night.
The old Stohan's Gallery. It was part of the San Xavier Canning Company that began operations in 1917.
Originally part of the Monterey Canning Company, this is now a restaurant at the end with shops closer to the street.
800 Ocean View Avenue, home of the Pacific Biological Laboratories from 1929 until some time after Ed Rickett's death. Now owned by the city of Monterey and is a national historic building.
The Pacific Biological Laboratories on the right next to the old Del Vista Packing company.
The Clement Monterey Hotel sits on the site of the old Del Mar Canning Company.
The Clement Monterey occupies both sides of Cannery Row.
I'm not sure what these small buildings were used for, but assume them to be fisherman's shanties.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium now occupies the old Hovden Food Products building.
Once the Marina Apartments. an annex to the Ocean View Hotel. It later became a house of ill-repute. Today it is an English Pub and a couple of shops.
The Wing Chong market opened in 1918 as a local grocery (brown building). The green building next door was the "La Ida Cafe", one of the houses of ill-repute.
Statue of John Steinbeck near McAbee Beach.
Statue of Kalisa Moore, who was one of the entrepreneurs to bring Cannery Row back after the Canning industry evaporated. She opened "Kalisa's" on the site of the old La Ida Cafe.