The stacks are, quite literally, everywhere.
There’s even a sign to flash with both your hands to declare your local legitimacy: throw your three middle fingers up to represent the stacks on your left and a fist to represent Morro Rock on the right. Take a drive up and down the arterial Harbor Street and spy a handful of stacks-related display signs in stores or vanity plates on cars. Local surfers sometimes have the stacks outline tattooed on their forearms or on the inside of their wrists.
One of the most popular waterfront wine bars and bistros in town is, of course, named STAX. Walk around any Morro Bay residential street and you’re bound to see a crew from Paul’s Precision Painting coating a home in white primer, the three stacks image slapped onto their trucks, trailers and T-shirts. Photo By Andrew PridgenĪ local microbrewery by the same name produces stacks-themed IPAs and pilsners. Morro Bay's local surf shop Wavelengths produces a "3 stacks and a rock" sweatshirt to commemorate the town's most familiar icon. The best-selling sweatshirt in Morro Bay surf shop Wavelengths is a logo with a silhouette of a power plant and three oversized smokestacks rising from it that says “3 Stacks and a Rock,” the town’s unofficial catchphrase. The stacks, as they’re known to locals, also happen to be beloved. A tribute to a postwar give-us-the-budget-and-we’ll-build-it mentality stamped right on, and looming precariously over, one of the already more dramatic stretches of coastline in California. A pollution-spewing, permanent eyesore ghastly and oversized monuments. The smokestacks are one of California’s great architectural missteps of the 20th century. And thanks to a Morro Bay City Council decision last November, they’re slated to come down sometime between now and 2028. They are massive, dormant, decaying and dangerous. The lasting power of the Morro Bay stacksĪll morning I’ve been patrolling the shoreline trying to figure out what, if any, utility the Morro Bay smokestacks have today. “Now what’s that you want to know about the stacks?” he asks. He surveys the harbor before focusing on me.
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