Cannons - Purveyors of quality seafood for over seventy years.  Cannons’ family obsession for quality foods began in the early 1900’s when my great-grandfather, Joseph (Joe) Cannon, first delivered milk by horse-drawn wagon, then opened the Congressional restaurant on B St, S.E. (the site that is now known as Independence Avenue) until the great Depression, then sold fifty cent home cooked pies at Union Station, and finally found his niche when he opened a seafood business in 1937 at the Municipal Fish Market on Water St. (later known as Main Avenue) in Washington D.C. 

Upon opening the store, Joe Cannon worked many days from 6:00 a.m. until well after midnight, only to fall asleep in a chair until opening the store the following day.  He was quoted in the November 2, 1972 edition of the Washington Post at L1 as saying that  “in the old days, I sold many a pound of fish for five cents,” and the same paper on April 30, 1982 at C3 that "when I went into the business [in 1937] I really didn't know the difference between a clam and an oyster, nor one fish from the other."  Fortunately, when the City closed up Main Ave in the 1960’s, my great-grandfather had a place to go.  In 1942, he opened a fish stand in the Western Market, located at 21^st and K. St. NW, which was run by my father, Robert Moore. In 1968, the City closed Western Market, and Robert Moore moved the business to its present location at 1065 31^st St. N.W. in Georgetown.

In the past seventy years, a lot has changed – fish no longer costs five cents a pound, Joe Cannon is no longer with us, and my father has retired (semi?) from the business.  But the one constant that will not change is the demand for quality and freshness, not only from our customers, but also from Cannons.  Presidents, foreign dignitaries, members of Congress, and everyone in between expect that they can still go back to Cannons and find the same freshness and quality they found in the store (or stand) ten, twenty, or even seventy years ago.  Today, we continue to strive to meet those expectations.  Come and be part of the next seventy years with us.  

Robert Moore, Jr.

(Bobby)

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