Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories
Summary Chronology
<>1903 John B. McAbee (McAbee Beach) sells lot
to Mary J. Nelson
1917 Mary J. Nelson sells lot to Vincent
Rodriquez
as part of group of owners [deed dated Dec 18, 1917].
1923 Lot deeded [March 4, 1923] to Vincent
Rodriguez.
1928 EFR , Jr. (source: EFR papers) [July 21,
1928, stockholders meeting?] ã50â lot with a stoutly
built 3-room
plaster house in fair condition, with a cement floor shed in fair
shape containing 4 cement tanks, offering a splendid place for storing
dogfish, heretofore a serious problem.ä Note: Ed moved and lifted
the house
and built the basement floor under it. Sandborn 1926 shows shed.
1928 Lot deeded to Pacific Biological
Laboratories,
740 Ocean View Avenue [July 24, 1928].
1930 Structure completed by Roscoe C. Wright,
January 15, 1930.
1936 Lab destroyed by fire at adjacent Del
Mar Cannery [November 25, 1936]
1939 Ed re-finances lab as corporation [PBL
LTD], borrowing from John and Carol Steinbeck, Webster Street and Peter
J. Ferrante.
1948 Ed stuck by Del Monte Express on May 8;
dies on May 11,1948.
1949 Trustees Webster Street and Peter Ferrante
deed the lab to W.O. Lunde and his wife, and Jack [Yock] and Frances
Yee
[November 4, 1949].
1953 [2 postmarked photo postcards] Harlan
Watkins photos of shed and back of lab.
1956 Lunde and Yee sell Lab to Harlan and
Louise
Watkins [July 16, 1956].
1958 May 16, 1958 deed from Harlan and Louise
Watkins to Pacific Biological Laboratories (ãThe Lab
Groupä).
1993 City of Monterey deeded Lab from Pacific
Biological Laboratories [December 2, 1993].
1997 City of Monterey, nominated by the Cannery Row
Foundation, wins the California Governor's Award for Historic
Preservation for seizmic retrofit and renovation of the Lab.<><><>
