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Both had grown up in Monterey and together decided to convert one of the many empty canneries into a restaurant. [1] The restaurant opened October 2, 1968. [2] In 1980, The Sardine Factory was one of 50 American restaurants invited to contribute a dish (abalone bisque) to Ronald Reagan's presidential inauguration.
The first sardine cannery opened on Valentine's Day, 1908. Others joined it, and profited during the two World Wars, but a sardine shortage led to their failure. Entrepreneurs subsequently resurrected Cannery Row as a tourist attraction. [2] Cannery Row was the setting of John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954).
In 1916, he started his own cannery, Hovden Canning Co (later known as K.Hovden Company), which became the most successful cannery in Monterey in the heyday of the sardine industry. Hovden also ran other canneries along the West Coast and was widely recognised as the "King of Cannery Row". [2] Hovden modernized California's sardine industry.
Cannery Row is a novel by American author John Steinbeck, published in 1945. [1] It is set during the Great Depression in Monterey, California , on a street lined with sardine canneries that is known as Cannery Row .
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The aquarium revitalized Monterey's Cannery Row when it opened in 1984, following the decline of the sardine canning industry in the United States. [az] Monterey Bay Aquarium employed over 500 people and had 1,200 active volunteers in 2015. [r] Between 1984 and 2014, 8,500 volunteers donated 3.2 million community service hours.
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An 83-foot (25-meter) motor boat that was one of the first refrigerated sardine carriers during the heyday of Maine’s sardine industry is going to be scrapped after a recovery operation to ...