Old F. Alioto Fish Plant at Noyo
by Kathleen Bishop
Title
Old F. Alioto Fish Plant at Noyo
Artist
Kathleen Bishop
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
This derelict building on Noyo Harbor’s south wharf has a long and colorful heritage. Its various incarnations include a fish processing plant for Alioto Fish Company and for Colintino Rose, a sea urchin processing for Natural Sales Network, a backdrop for “Racing with the Moon”, which included a mural painted on its wall for that movie by local artist Rick Sacks, and it was once a surfboard manufacturing shop.
During the building's early days, fishing boats would tie up alongside her to offload their cargo then salmon were filleted, packed in brine in wooden barrels and shipped as far away as New York. A veteran of the harbor recalled packing one barrel of salmon fillets that weighed 806 pounds!
Most notably, IMO, its second story office provided refuge for fisherman who watched day and night as big logs came racing down the river during the big flood of 1964. It was much too dangerous for them to sleep on their boats! A fisherman recounted being on the Noyo when men would “get on the bow of their boats with a pike pole to push away the logs to save their boats.” He was on his father’s boat when a log hit the F/V Tea Rose, sinking her instantly. The Tea Rose was one of 4 fishing boats in Noyo that sunk during the flood on December 31, 1964. If buildings could gossip, just think of the stories this one might tell!
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August 30th, 2022
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