Have your computers checked & blow the dust out once in a while.
Monterey fire division chief David Brown said crews were dispatched to 700 Cannery Row on a report of a structure fire in the former building of the Monterey Canning Co. When firefighters arrived they learned that a computer in the office space at the Spirit of Monterey Wax Museum had caught fire.
Hacks in fear of higher fees. I can think of some other less qualified leaders they might fall under.
Did someone say TAMC?
Hunter Harvath, assistant general manager of the transit agency, said he understands the nervous uncertainty behind the drivers’ concerns. But he said details of how the new taxi agency will work are still being worked out.
“We have not charged a penny to anyone yet,” he said. “We are still in the formulation period.”
He, too, denied the allegation that MST — which is governed by elected officials from cities and Monterey County — took on the taxi authority to spur bus ridership at the expense of cabbies.
“It’s nothing we asked for. We have our hands full trying to run a bus company,” he said.
Other items to be auctioned from Kalisa’s estate include memorabilia from the restaurant, including the hand-drawn wall menu, a rusty ambulance door emblazoned with the words “Dining Out Is Entertainment at Kalisa’s Cosmopolitan Gourmet Place,” and a photo board depicting a four-foot-tall image of Steinbeck, along with smaller pictures of Bing Crosby and Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell.
I remember the old A1 Ambulance that served as a rolling billboard..
So the owners prepare to sue the source. Out of town owners I may add. A different location may have been better. Many locals avoid tourist traps like the ‘row.
In a phone interview from his home in Chicago, Weinert said many of the theater’s problems could be traced to Toronto-based IMAX Corp. Weinert operated the theater under the corporate name Bella Cinema. Its relationship with IMAX is similar to a franchise, and Weinert hoped for benefits because of that.
Police said they were called to the Blue Fin Cafe and Billiards, 85 Cannery Row, shortly before 1:30 a.m.
Officers arrived to find three men suffering stab wounds, police said, and Frank Delgado, 32, and Anthony Paulsell, 24, both of Castroville, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Fire damage minimal, but several floors below got everything soaked by the sprinkler systems.
With the Cannery Row hotel filled to capacity, the Cherry’s Jubilee car show in full swing for the weekend, and a beer fest under way on the hotel’s lower terrace, a fire started in the penthouse of the westernmost building of the hotel complex about 3:21 p.m., and forced the evacuation.
According to Monterey Fire Capt. Barry Perkins, who arrived first on the scene, the fire started in a flue in the mechanical room on the five-story building’s penthouse level.
Who remembers the real fires in old cannery buildings?
Unlike the dreary picture painted by Moe Ammar, things are more upbeat across the border.
Although getting reservations was a bit challenging this time around, for a local restaurant it was more challenging back in 2000.
“We were not even half as busy with our reservations as we are this year in 2010, big increase in reservations,” said Joanne Marshall, manager at Fish Hopper.
“Of course its helping our staff, we have extra staff so it’s really helping us all around and bringing our folks out to Cannery Row to see what we have out here,” said Marshall.
This excellent establishment that served us carnivores well is no longer with us. Sorry to see it shut, it was one of the few reasons that drew me to the ‘Row. Especially pleasurable was seeing Midwest rubes be seated, look at the menu and then head for the door. My kind of place.
At least we still have had Henry’s BBQ. Very recommended, I mean a combo platter with FOUR different meats comes in at $18. That’s $3 less than a plate a noodles at Joe Rombi!
Just like poachers after abalone, them signs pry right off.
“We don’t know,” Adams said about the thieves “if they are collectors or malicious vandals.”
The Business Improvement District, in partnership with the city, the Cannery Row Business Association, Monterey Bay Aquarium and InterContinental The Clement Monterey hotel, has put up informational plaques, murals and ceramic recreations of the row’s cannery labels of fish that were important to Monterey Bay’s seafood industry. A series of banners depicts historic row figures and selected quotes from Steinbeck’s works.
The Clement hotel built a walkway that gives pedestrians free access to the ocean side of the hotel and the rear of the Pacific Biological Laboratory, where Ed Ricketts plied his trade as a collector of marine specimens. Tiles showing each of the canneries’ labels have been placed in sidewalks where the canneries once operated.
A San Jose man died after scuba diving in Monterey on Sunday, authorities said today.
Alec Piplani, 49, was pronounced dead at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula after he had some kind of difficulty in the water off McAbee Beach on Cannery Row, said coroner’s Sgt. Matt Luther.