Oct 2022 update -- This historic building is scheduled for demolition sometime in the next few months. Make sure to grab this cache and look at the historic building before its gone. I have relocated the cache container approx 100 feet southwest so it will remain after the building is long gone.
The familiar Star-Kist Company traces its origins to 1918 on Terminal Island, when it was founded as the French Sardine Company by Yugoslavian immigrant Martin J. Bogdanovich.
By 1952, the renamed Star-Kist Tuna Cannery’s new Main Plant held the distinction of being the single-largest cannery in the world. Star-Kist was the largest of several major tuna canneries, including Chicken of the Sea, which operated on Terminal Island for several decades and revolutionized seafood consumption through the introduction of canned tuna.
On Oct. 19, 1984, Star-Kist Foods shut down its Terminal Island cannery for good, laying off its final 1,200 workers. Most of its operations had been moved to Puerto Rico and American Samoa, but it still was the end of an era in Fish Harbor.
When it was completed, the Star-Kist Main Plant was the single-largest example of tilt-up construction built by private industry on the West Coast. Giving this industrial facility further distinction is the unusual level of architectural detailing on the harbor-facing façade, which was viewed primarily by fishermen in the harbor and employees entering the building.
Most of the Main Plant remains standing and, despite later additions, remains a highly significant example of a cannery facility in the Port of Los Angeles. Sadly, the building is closed to the public. While the original cannery is gone, there is still commercial fishing activity at the old Starkist factory docks.
You will need to lightly pull the thing the container is hidden behind to retrieve it. Don’t worry, the container will entirely fit in its place.