Knut Hovden Cannery - Monterey, CA - Photos Then and Now on Waymarking.com

"Operating between 1916 and 1973, the Knut Hovden Cannery produced canned sardines for most of its years in service, employing at its height about 4,000 workers. The Hovden Food Products Company became the largest of several canneries located on Monterey's Ocean View Avenue, made famous in John Stenbeck's 1945 novel, Cannery Row. Toward the end of its years, sardines became overfished in Monterey Bay, and the Hovden Cannery had to turn to canning squid. The company ended production in 1973 and sat derelict for several years. Various plans developed for its reuse, but efforts to build a scientific institution and tourist attraction, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, won out. It opened in 1984 in portions of the old cannery." (visit link)

Year photo was taken: 1930

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