![]() They all looked tasty (we were quite hungry), but I had my sights set on a restaurant I read about on We 3 Travel. As we walked down the row, we were excited to see all the shops and cafes around. The Monterey Bay Aquarium is at the end of Cannery Row, which made Cannery Row the perfect place to pop out for lunch while we visited the Aquarium. So began the remake of Cannery Row into the shopping, restaurant, and tourist destination that it is today. In the 70s two restauranteurs with roots in the area launched the first restaurant in the cafeteria area of an old canning factory. ![]() After a few fires, Cannery Row was nothing more than some burnt out old factories rotting and showcasing the fall of the town. However, with the collapse of the sardine population in the bay, the canning industry collapsed as well. Until the 1940s this was a place that was booming, with jobs to be had if you didn’t mind the hard work, smell and dangerous conditions. ![]() But at the turn of the century, advances in technology, discovery of the sardine population in the Bay, and location turned Monterey into the prime place for canning of sardines and other fish in the bay. Monterey was always a fishing town that attracted many different immigrants and fishermen looking to make a living. The bridges over Cannery Row are left over from the days of canneries lining the street
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