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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11C0_working-women_Monterey-CA.html
Prior to World War II, only women were allowed to work on cannery lines (top). In some canneries, only "white American women" were allowed to pack fish. Working the lines was considered "women's work." Even if there were men available, the canneri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BE_the-del-mar-canning-company-1927-1947_Monterey-CA.html
The Del Mar Canning Company was established in 1927 on this site, the original location of the Bayside Fish & Flour Company, a Japanese-operated reduction plant established in 1916. The Del Mar quickly rose to prominence in the canning industry un…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BD_silver-harvest_Monterey-CA.html
In the formative days of the Monterey fishing industry, the working boats were too small to carry both a crew and a catch. The fishermen towed a second boat called a "lighter," which could hold 25 to 60 tons of sardines.Since the canning plants al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BC_fish-hoppers_Monterey-CA.html
In 1927 cannery owner and fishing industry innovator Knut Hovden introduced new technologies to increase the catch and expedite the transfer of fish to the production line. By bringing purse seiner fishing boats (named for the type of nets they us…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BB_giant-kelp-beyond-the-breakers_Monterey-CA.html
Off the coast and beyond the breaking waves, giant kelp provides a lush home for marine life. Holding fast to the rocky bottom, these huge plants grow upward then spread their green-gold fronds across the water, creating a dense canopy of growth -…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11BA_fiction_Monterey-CA.html
Author John Steinbeck won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes for literature. Many of his novels were set in the Monterey Bay area and the Salinas Valley. Ed Ricketts was both a friend and mentor, who influenced the writer's ecological view of huma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AZ_science_Monterey-CA.html
Edward F. Ricketts, owner-operator of Pacific Biological Laboratories, was described by a biographer as "a devoted and rational biologist who sought to uncover scientific truth." A true renaissance man, Ricketts wrote extensively on a wide variety…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AY_jone-quock-mui_Monterey-CA.html
Quock Mui was born at Point Lobos in 1859 (lower left). Her parents were Cantonese fishermen who sailed to California by seagoing junk in 1851. Point Lobos was a thriving multicultural community in the later 19th century. Quock Mui had an aptitude…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AX_ed-rickettss-backyard_Monterey-CA.html
You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts's lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around the world. Wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11AW_one-man-two-worlds_Monterey-CA.html
Doc, the legendJohn Steinbeck used his close friend and collaborator, Edward Ricketts, as a model for the famous fictional character Doc. In the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, set in the 1930s and 1940s, the kindly Doc is a gentle, insight…