Pop Ernest Abalone and Seafood Restaurant, Monterey 1930s MGM would often accept a drawing

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Pop Ernest Abalone and Seafood Restaurant, Monterey 1930s MGM would often accept a drawing"Before Pop Ernest Doelter set up shop on Alvarado and, later, Fishermans Wharf in Monterey, the way Americans used to cook abalone seemed a little like marinating a nice porterhouse in paint. Theyd boil it into tastelessness or, worse, tenderize it with lye. Yes, lye. Not Pop. Circa 1908 a time when almost all of the local abalone was shipped to Japan he started taking the ample abalone pulled in by the areas Japanese fishermen, pounding it, washing