![]() The factory will process one ton of bacon a week and one ton of potatoes per day. Over the course of a year, the factory will make over 500,000 pounds of fresh chowder. It is also sold online and is distributed to grocery stores in 14 states. ![]() The original Mo's was also remodeled and expanded several times, in addition to the restaurant the building now houses a clam chowder factory which provides the base for the restaurants. Over the years Niemi opened additional Mo's restaurants, one across the street from the original in Newport overlooking the bay (Mo's Annex) and Mo's West at Otter Rock. The door itself, pictured at right, remains basically unchanged since its installation and features a picture on its interior showing a woman driving her car through the door, an alarmed look on her face. On warm sunny days the door is opened transforming Mo's into a sidewalk cafe. Mo saw the humor in the situation, and consoled the distraught woman, saying, "Well, we'll just put in a garage door so we can open it and you can drive in anytime if that's what you want to do". One day a customer accidentally left her car in forward gear instead of reverse while leaving and crashed through the front wall. The original Newport Mo's has an unusual front wall for a restaurant. Kennedy and his wife Ethel also visited the restaurant while he was campaigning for the Democratic Party 1968 Oregon primary election on May 24, 1968. In 1973 Audrey McCall, wife of the Governor, arranged for the spouses of the Governors attending the Western Governors' Conference to have lunch at Mo's on the waterfront. Oregon Governor Tom McCall and Senator Mark Hatfield and other Oregon politicians ate there as well. Mo and her father once owned the Inn in the early 1940s. The scene was filmed in Newport's Bayhaven Inn, (renamed The Snag in the film). Mo appears in one scene of the film as an extra. Henry Fonda, Paul Newman and other cast members of the film Sometimes a Great Notion (based on a novel by Ken Kesey about a dysfunctional family of Oregon coast loggers) ate there during location filming. Great-granddaughter of Mo, Gabrielle McEntee-Wilson recalls in an interview "Granny Mo" saying (in regards to Mo's popularity) "The hippies discovered Mo's" during the 'sixties." According to McEntee-Wilson "It (Mo's) wasn't a concept-it grew on its own and changed over time." Mo's second husband, retired fisherman Kaino "Dutch" Niemi along with friends often gathered at a table contributing to the "family" atmosphere of the restaurant. ![]() Over time Mo's would become a favorite, not just of locals, but of tourists and celebrities as well. In the following years Mo's served more and more seafood, the clam chowder recipe evolved over time as the cooks would vie with each other to produce a better version. Niemi's business partner Freddie Kent became ill a few years later and Niemi bought out her partner's shares of the restaurant. ![]() Mo's first opened on the Newport bay front in 1946 as "Freddie & Mo's"-a 24-hour restaurant that served the local loggers and fisherman such fare as spaghetti and steaks. Mo's restaurants serve primarily seafood and have long been noted for their New England style clam chowder, their own locally raised Yaquina Bay oysters and for their casual and friendly atmosphere. Mo's are named after their original owner Mohava "Mo" Niemi, who was once described as "the stuff of legend in Newport". Mo's Restaurants is an American restaurant chain located on the Oregon Coast and headquartered in Newport, Oregon. ![]() For other uses, see Moe's (disambiguation). For the fast-casual Mexican chain, see Moe's Southwest Grill. ![]()
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