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MAKE RESERVATIONS NOW and tour “the Lab” on Saturday, July 21, 2018— come inside “Ed Ricketts’s Lab” on historic Cannery Row and celebrate the nationally-known cartoonists and other artists whose lives were intertwined with the Pacific Biological Laboratories.
– Limited reservations are now being accepted at [email protected] for the rare public Lab tours, which are two hours each at 10 a.m., 12 noon, and 2 p.m. on July 21, 2018. Please list your selected time and the number of guests. Reservations will be confirmed by return e-mail. Emails are preferred, but visitors also can call 831-917-1937 for clarification or further information.
-- Each tour will include talks by historians, literary scholars, marine biologists, and “Row Rats” from the nonprofit Cannery Row Foundation. Docents will tell tales about Hank Ketcham, Gus Arriola, and Eldon Dedini, plus Bruce Ariss, their role in the history of the Lab and their relationships with John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts.
-- Speakers July 21 will include Robin Aeschliman, Mike Guardino, Scott Johnson, Diana Dennis, Rob McClurg, Tim Thomas, and the Foundation president, Gregor Cailliet, Terry McClurg will be at the entry desk.
-- Since 1983, the Cannery Row Foundation has helped to support the research on, and exhibition of, Cannery Row's famous historic, literary, and ecological legacies. A tax-deductible donation of $15 to the nonprofit Cannery Row Foundation by cash or check at the door is requested to cover the City fees and insurance for this activity.
-- Henry King Ketcham (March 14, 1920 – June 1, 2001), better known as Hank Ketcham, was an American cartoonist who created the Dennis the Menace comic strip.
-- Gustavo "Gus" Arriola (July 17, 1917 – February 2, 2008) was a Mexican-American comic strip cartoonist and animator, primarily known for the comic strip Gordo. Eldon Dedini (June 29, 1921 – January 12, 2006) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Pl***oy and elsewhere.
-- Bruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. (October 10, 1911 – September, 1994) was an American artist who wrote “Inside Cannery Row: Sketches from the Steinbeck Era.”
-- Only 15 visitors per hour are allowed inside the historic Pacific Biological Laboratories building at 800 Cannery Row. Guests are encouraged to bring cameras, dress in layers, and enjoy a rare opportunity to be inside the Lab.
-- This sketch depicts the interior of the original Lab and was drawn by Bruce Ariss in 1936, before the Lab fire on Thanksgiving Day. The sketch was signed for Mike Guardino in 1989.
-- Ed Ricketts is in the chair and John Steinbeck is sitting next to him on the floor, reading his day’s writing effort for Ed to comment upon. John would write in long-hand in the back of his father’s old ledgers. Ed Ricketts Jr. is in the right background;
-- Bruce and Jean Ariss are sitting on the bed; Suzi Hedges is standing with the cigarette. The book on the floor is “Modern Man in Search of a Soul” by Jung and the record album on the left is Gregorian Chants.
ED RICKETTS’ BIRTHDAY will be celebrated SATURDAY, MAY 19, when the nonprofit Cannery Row Foundation offers public Ricketts’ Birthday Tours at Pacific Biological Laboratories, 800 Cannery Row. Ricketts was born May 14, 1897 and died when a train hit his car on the Cannery Row tracks on May 11, 1948.
-- Limited reservations are now being accepted at [email protected] for these public Lab tours, which are two hours each at 10 a.m., 12 noon, and 2 p.m.
-- Only 15 visitors per hour are allowed inside the historic building. Guests are asked to list the tour time requested and the number of persons in the party. Reservations will be confirmed by return e-mail. Emails are preferred, but visitors also can call 831-917-1937 for clarification or further information.
-- Robin Aeschliman will begin each tour with a history of her Rodriguez family, which originally owned the site and operated the La Esperanza Fish Packing Company.
-- At the 10 a.m. and 12 noon tours, Gregor Cailliet, Professor Emeritus, Moss Landing Marine Lab (MLML) and President, Cannery Row Foundation, will discuss Ed Ricketts’ history and that of 800 Cannery Row's Pacific Biological Laboratories (PBL). Mike Guardino will do the same for the 2 p.m. tour.
-- Rob McClurg, former high school teacher, will cover the Men's Group and their ownership, modification, preservation, and occupation of PBL from 1956 to 1993, when they sold the lab to the City of Monterey. He will also cover the creation of the Monterey Jazz Festival from that very spot. Diana Dennis has offered to cover her 2006 book of photographs "Cannery Row 1965 - a time in between."
-- The downstairs outdoor processing area, concrete tanks, and the Ricketts' laboratory will be described by Tracy Campbell, marine biologist from MLML in the two early tours, and Mike Guardino and Gregor Cailliet, during the 2 p.m. tour.
-- Since 1983, the Cannery Row Foundation has helped to support the research on, and exhibition of, Cannery Row's famous historic, literary, and ecological legacies. A donation of $15 or more to the Cannery Row Foundation by cash or check at the door is requested
-- Guests are encouraged to bring cameras, dress in layers, and enjoy a rare opportunity to be inside the Lab for tours by historians, literary scholars, marine biologists, and Cannery Row Foundation docents, called the "Row Rat" volunteers. Some refreshments will be available and visitors will have a chance to wander through the Pacific Biological Laboratories.
-- The Lab building is where Ed Ricketts and John Steinbeck conceived and planned their 1940 "Voyage of Science and Leisure" to Baja California's Sea of Cortez on the famed Monterey purse-seiner, the "Western Flyer” and described in Steinbeck’s "The Log from the Sea of Cortez."
VISIT THE "STEINBECK ADOBE" -- Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw will make introductory historical and literary remarks to visitors during the start of Monterey’s public “Christmas in the Adobes” open house on Dec. 8 at the Steinbeck/Lara-Soto Adobe.
-- Buy tickets at: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26922
The city’s 34rd annual celebration at its historic adobes will be from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 8 and Saturday, Dec.9.
-- Shillinglaw is Director of the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas, a board member of the Cannery Row Foundation, and a professor of English at San Jose State University. -- Since the 1990s, the Cannery Row Foundation has hosted the historic Monterey adobe at 460 Pierce St., which is now the Admissions Office of the Middlebury Institute of International Relations (MIIS).
-- Foundation Board members include David Armanasco, Ted Balestreri, Bob Enea, Randy Hamilton, Pat Hathaway, Jim Levitt, Susan Shillinglaw, Gary Varga; Randy Venard, Mike Zimmerman, Gregor Cailliet, John Gregg, John Turner, Ted Balestreri, Jr., and Dan Albert, Sr.
-- John Steinbeck wrote his famous novel "The Pearl" while living in the Lara-Soto adobe. He bought the home in late 1944 and lived there until early 1945 with his second wife, Gwendolyn, and their first son, Thom, who died in 2016.
-- The late Kalisa Moore, the Foundation’s acclaimed "Queen of Cannery Row," insisted in the 1990s that the Cannery Row Foundation should host that adobe for this annual event – and they’ve done so ever since.
-- Other Cannery Row Foundation volunteers, called the "Up-Town Row Rats" by long-time, now retired CRF founder and President, Michael H**p, will pass out Cannery Row Foundation information about its Steinbeck connection.
-- Founded in 1983, the mission of the Cannery Row Foundation is “to capture, communicate and share the history of Cannery Row and its contemporary relevance.
-- “We're creating a bright new path to connect the story and traditions of old Monterey and Cannery Row,” says current CRF president Gregor Calliet, “with the aspirations of those working to build on this foundation to create vibrant historical and cultural experiences for all those who live, work, visit and play here. We see CRF as a vital catalyst for this process.”
CANNERY ROW LAB TOURS are this coming Saturday (10/21) at 800 Cannery Row - so make your reservations! Cannery Row historian Michael H**p returns to Monterey to talk at each of Saturday's three Cannery Row Foundation "Doc's Lab" tours honoring the Pacific Biological Laboratory Men's club era.
-- Make your reservations at: [email protected] (preferred method), or call (831) 917-1937 for a memorable 2-hour tour. Tours are from: 10 am-12 pm,12 Noon-2 pm, 2 pm-4 pm. Only 15 visitors in Lab allowed for each tour; walk-ins are welcome, if space is available.
-- H**p will be joined by Lucas Seastrom, San Francisco, CRF Docent authority on Ed Ricketts and the Lab, along with Lead Docent Michael Guardino and other great CRF Docents.
-- PBL historian Robin Aeschliman will present her Rodriguez family's ownership history of 470 Ocaen View Ave., known today as the location of Edward F. Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories.
-- Donation is still only $15 per person to help fund special events like this exclusive PBL Tour. Dress in layers and bring your cameras.
Cannery Row historian Michael H**p returns to Monterey on a speaking tour Oct. 21, including each of Saturday's three Cannery Row Foundation "Doc's Lab" tours honoring the Pacific Biological Laboratory Men's club era.
-- Make your reservations at: [email protected] (preferred method), or call (831) 917-1937 for a memorable 2-hour tour. Tours are from: 10 am-12 pm,12 Noon-2 pm, 2 pm-4 pm
-- H**p will be joined by Lucas Seastrom, San Francisco, CRF Docent authority on Ed Ricketts and the Lab, along with Lead Docent Michael Guardino and other great CRF Docents.
-- PBL historian Robin Aeschliman will present her Rodriguez family's ownership history of 470 Ocaen View Ave., known today as the location of Edward F. Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories.
-- Come honor the era of "Doc's Lab" Club Members. Help devoted fans of PBL celebrate: from Founder Harlan Watkins to the last of the members, Frank Wright, who passed away on Sept. 25.
-- Visitors in the lab are limited to 15 persons per tour. Donation is still only $15 per person to help fund special events like this exclusive PBL Tour. Dress in layers and bring your cameras.
-- For questions or to volunteer as a CRF "Row Rat" e-mail [email protected] or call (831) (831) 917-1937 (Photo: Party Room PBL Men's Club c 1986 by Steve Crouch — with Frank Wright)

The History Company specializes in CANNERY ROW (Central California Coastal) historical research and

The History Company produces PowerPoint archvial photo lectures and exclusive guided group tours of John Steinbeck's "Old Cannery Row." In addition to its illustrated history of old Ocean View Avenue, there is now the CANNERY ROW & Waterfront app, available at iTunes App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cannery-row/id414973369?mt=8. The History Company specializes in CANNERY ROW (Central Cal

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05/05/2020

Work has been suspended on the Western Flyer due to the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home order, but will resume when it is announced safe to do so. If you have not seen the series of progress videos on the restoration of the Western Flyer, check out more information at www.thehistorycompany.com and be sure to get caught up with the history of Cannery Row-Monterey's Western Flyer with our new 4th Edition of Cannery Row, which now includes the first exposition of the many substantial but unknown or little known connections with the maritime Pacific Northwest.

"Whisky Bravo 4404, Clear!"
Western Flyer's radio call sign

The History Company 01/08/2018

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Michael Kenneth H**p dba The History Company announces exclusive representation of the Fry Collection of Western Flyer Navigational Artifacts for acquisition, preservation, and
perpetual public exhibition by the City of Monterey at the Western Flyer’s Home Port of Monterey. A Naming Donor is sought to acquire the collection at its fair and equitable value from the Fry Family and pass-through/transfer ownership of the iconic historic collection to the City of Monterey for permanent preservation, maintenance, promotion, and public exhibit of the collection—with the Naming Donor clearly and prominently identified with the Collection in perpetuity.

It is the intent of the Fry Family that the Collection should be permanently located at the Port of Monterey, in a museum structure at the site of the Western Flyer’s home port—intact as a collection, not to be removed from perpetual public exhibit at Monterey or broken up with individual artifacts re-sold separately to other parties (and never seen again).

The Fry Collection of Western Flyer Navigational Artifacts—consisting of the flying bridge’s brass wood-handled wheel, the two-piece brass helm stand, the brass articulated shift control lever, the flying bridge boxed compass, and the main deck house compass—has been appraised by Roger Ottenbach Historic Maritime Appraisals. The detailed and illustrated Appraisal concludes a reserve auction value of $68,704.00 and is available to serious inquiries. Bids will be received commencing at 10 AM, Wednesday, January 10th.

For more information, images, or to become the Named Donor of the Fry Collection of Western Flyer Navigational Artifacts, please contact me at:

Michael Kenneth H**p
The History Company
(831) 236-2990
[email protected]
www.TheHistoryCompany.com

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Photos from The History Company's post 10/07/2016

The Cannery Row Foundation invites you to hourly tours of Pacific Biological Laboratories (Ed Ricketts' Lab) on Saturday, October 22nd, hourly from 9 AM til the last tour at 4 PM. The tours will honor Harlan Watkins, founder of the Pacific Biological Laboratories, Inc. and the pirvate men's club that preserved it over the decades since 1958 and sold it to the City of Monterey in 1993 to as a National Treasure.

Still only a $15 per person donation to support research and special CRF events like the Lab toursand the annual CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM.

Reservations strongly recommended at [email protected]—or by phone to (831) 659-2112. Your reservatIon will be confirmed by return e-mail.

Honored Guest will be the last PBL men's club member, Frank Wright of Carmel, familiar to many in years past who have toured the Cannery Row Foundation's special Lab Tour of Ed's Lab. Frank was a friend of Ed's as well as an owner-club member. Don't miss a chance to say hello to (in Frank's own words, "The Relic of the Row.")

Get your family and friends together and get to this one and only special event like this—IN ED RICKETTS' LAB!

More information at www.canneryrow.org.

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Don't miss the Steinbeck Birthday Lab tours! Calling all "Ed Heads"!

Michael H**p

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Fisherman's Wharf Monterey - Whalefest Monterey 2016 01/21/2016

Fisherman's Wharf Monterey - Whalefest Monterey 2016

Hope to see you on Saturday, January 22nd, when I help start the Whalefest at Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey. At 11:00 AM I'll be presenting the historical background and update of the "Saga of The Western Flyer"—the world-famous Monterey purse-seiner chartered by John Steinbeck to the Sea of Cortez in 1940 with pioneer marine biologist, Ed Ricketts. From Steinbeck's narrative portion of the publication of the "Sea of Cortez" by both men (1941) came "The Log From The Sea of Cortez" by Steinbeck in 1951. It's mutually developed conservation message was 2 decades ahead of Rachel Carson's classic "Silent Spring."

The history of the Western Flyer charts its participation in the devastation of a succession of major West Coast and Pacific Northwest fisheries before her near demise before rescue and restoration (in progress) in Port Townsend, Washington—by marine geologist John Gregg and his brother, Andy. In a spectacular irony, upon completion, the most famous fishing boat in the world will return to home-port Monterey as a seagoing classroom for inspiring youth into the marine sciences.

See you Saturday at 11:00?
http://montereywharf.com/index.php?page=whalefest-monterey

Fisherman's Wharf Monterey - Whalefest Monterey 2016

Photos from The History Company's post 05/24/2015

The History Company is delighted to be posting news that the Cannery Row Foundation CANNERY ROW SYMPOSIUM (a History Company production) on February 21, 2015 at Hopkins Marine Station's historic MONTEREY BOAT WORKS auditorium now has its first video segment ready for viewing. Click the link to the official announcement of the purchase and restoration plans for the endangered Western Flyer—of John Steinbeck's "Log From The Sea of Cortez" fame. And check the CRF site often for more information at www.canneryrow.org.

If "The Log" isn't in your library yet, get it—along with the great new Western Flyer fan's delight, "The Western Flyer" by Kevin Bailey.

Timeline photos 02/15/2014

Hot off the presses: the 2nd printing of the 3rd Edition of "CANNERY ROW, The History of John Steinbecks' Old Ocean View Avenue"—with remarkable improvements in photo clarity and detail, thanks to a complete, enhanced re-PhotoShopping of the over 200 images. There's also a 15 pt. cover which makes it almost a hard cover. And it's all at the same price:only $24.95. With a special offer that includes our 5-star iTunes travel app ($2.99) and an authentic sardine canning label (priceless) for framing or a bookmark —FREE at www.thehistorycompany.com

04/06/2013

An e-mail from Bob Enea, head of the Western Flyer Project: from a friend of Kevin Bailey, one of our WF Soldiers.

"A friend of mine called me from the grave site of the Western Flyer. She is still there submerged as she has been since January 4th." –Kevin

See http://www.canneryrow.org and/or http://thehistorycompany.com for background and photos.

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