“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses.”
~John Steinbeck, American author, from the novel “Cannery Row”
The fabled Cannery Row District in Monterey, CA was immortalized in John Steinbeck’s novel of the same name. Running parallel to the shore, Cannery Row has once again become a vibrant hub of activity. In boom-bust-boom fashion, the contemporary Cannery Row District has been romantically restored and now exudes both quaintness and charm–a far cry from the rustic and rugged populace so beautifully portrayed in Steinbeck’s novel.
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