{"id":1559,"date":"2012-09-16T14:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T14:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2023-05-27T16:40:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T23:40:32","slug":"1957-market-street-fish-parade-with-dead-whale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/16\/1957-market-street-fish-parade-with-dead-whale\/","title":{"rendered":"1957 Market street fish parade with dead whale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/webdev.archive.org\/details\/0381_San_Francisco_Dead_Whale_Opens_Seafood_Season_12_56_28_09\">Prelinger Archives<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/0381_San_Francisco_Dead_Whale_Opens_Seafood_Season_12_56_28_09\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>September 18, 1957 &#8211; San Francisco marks the start of the seafood season with a parade down Market Street featuring a 42 foot dead whale, complete with barnacles.<br \/>\nOn the back of the Bigge Drayage trailer, riding with the 42 ton whale was Miss Seafood Week and her fishing pole, as well as Dolphina, Bimbo&#8217;s 365 Club&#8217;s Girl in the Fishbowl.<br \/>\nNational Seafood Week was an attempt to get people to eat more fish, but the people on the sidewalk seemed startled as the whale went by, this didn&#8217;t stop them from cracking jokes though: &quot;There&#8217;s a whale of a parade.&quot; &quot;That&#8217;s just a California salmon.&quot;<br \/>\nBack at Pier 42, the whale was dumped into the bay and hauled over to the Del Monte Fishing Company, a whaling plant in Richmond, where it was turned into useable meat.<br \/>\nAs one reporter put it after listening to humorous offerings all morning long, &quot;All this proves that you can drag a whale down Market Street without anyone making one good joke.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The whaling plant in Richmond was one of only two in the country when it was opened by Del Monte in 1956; but by the time the US Secretary of Commerce had outlawed whaling in 1971, it was the last of its kind.<\/p>\n<p>This film is from the Prelinger Archives and has been posted for its historical and educational significance.<br \/>\nwww.prelinger.com\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the Prelinger Archives September 18, 1957 &#8211; San Francisco marks the start of the seafood season with a parade down Market Street &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18-mid-market","tag-mid-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}