Monterey's busy Cannery Row

 Busy Cannery Row
Cannery Row

Once Ocean View Avenue, now Cannery Row
Once, there was an Ocean View Avenue in Monterey where a certain Mr. McAbee established some seaside entertainments—without long-term success. Nevertheless, McAbee Beach is named in his honor. The seaside district turned into a sardine canning district, which was made world-famous thanks to a novel by John Steinbeck: Cannery Row, published in 1945. Ocean View Avenue was eventually renamed to Cannery Row. Steinbeck's novel features diverse and charmingly inglorious characters, and also Doc—resembling ecologist Ed Ricketts, who studied nearby seashore habitats. By 1960 almost all the canneries had closed due to a dramatic drop in sardines off the California Coast. Monterey Bay became part of a marine sanctuary. For visitors of the Monterey Peninsula and Cannery Row, now the Monterey Bay Aquarium literally opens windows and new chapters to marine life. And today's Cannery Row—turning modern by celebrating its history—is busier than McAbee could ever have dreamed of.
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More to explore on Cannery Row
▶ Cannery Row Walking Tour and History of Fishing on the Bay
▶ Cannery Row Foundation
▶ Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
▶ Monterey's McAbee Beach: Fishermen at the wall
▶ The Bay Aquarium's North Pacific Gyre animation