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

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

it remains a Detroit landmark and has been converted into apartments

book illustrator and cartoonist

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

though in truth

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