The union seeking to organize California's farm fields the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing and Allied Workers of America recruited five young Broadway actors to tour the West and Southwest, with ticket sales going into UCAPAWA's coffers.
But the Japanese pulled out of the Taiyo fish cannery at Noro, timber exports were hit by the Asian slump, Ross Mining closed its Gold Ridge mine and Guadalcanal's palm-oil plantations have been abandoned.
Although most of its vineyards are found far away from the coast, you can taste vintages from as far away as the Santa Lucia Highlands right on Cannery Row at A Taste of Monterey.