Pop Ernest Abalone and Seafood Restaurant, Monterey 1930s MGM book illustrator and cartoonist

book illustrator and cartoonist

this beautifully illustrated menu would have been put before passengers on a trip between Southampton and New York

The Union Cafe was a popular restaurant located in downtown Seattle

would often accept a drawing or a painting from an artist who could not pay the bill

Pop Ernest Abalone and Seafood Restaurant, Monterey 1930s MGM book illustrator and cartoonist"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