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Book About Cannery Row

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Postcard Cannery Row Hoffman

Cannery Row Post Card – 1970s

Author A.L. Lundy reveals some history of the street now crowded with tourists.

Still, Real Life on Cannery Row has many nuggets of gold. One that made me want to head to Cannery Row with a headlamp suggested that secret passageways connected the Wing Chong Co. building to the adjacent La Ida’s so that opium users could elude police in the ’20s and ’30s. Another sidebar gives away a recipe for “Half-Way House Salsa,” which was a condiment that topped burgers Steinbeck used to enjoy at a bar that was formerly located at 598 Lighthouse.

Book About Cannery Row

Cannery Row Street To Be Torn Up Again

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Cannery Row Hoffman

Work begins Monday, between Hoffman & Reeside. Can Cal-Am and the City Of Monterey pull this off? And, is the repaving project the result of the water main breaking all the time?

To reduce costs and minimize disruption to local businesses, the main replacement project will be conducted in coordination with the City of Monterey, which has a repaving project planned for the same area. . . In addition, construction will be halted during the weeks of April 5 and April 12 to accommodate the increase in visitor traffic associated with the spring break holiday.

Cannery Row Street To Be Torn Up Again

Cannery Row Is More Than Steinbeck Or Tourists

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Stohans

the Clement hotel built a walkway that gives pedestrians free access to the ocean side of the hotel and the rear of the Pacific Biological Laboratory, “Doc’s Lab,” where Ed Ricketts plied his trade as a collector of specimens for marine biological research.

Eventually, he said, similar walkways may give the public walking access to the entire Cannery Row shore front.

“It’s not just about Steinbeck anymore,” said Bonnie Adams, executive director of the Cannery Row Business Association.

Besides Steinbeck’s own lore, the walking tour gives glimpses into the role of women in the canneries, the great Associated Oil fire of 1924, Cannery Row in the movies and in literature.

Cannery Row Is More Than Steinbeck Or Tourists

Professor Toro – The 1924 Cannery Row Oil Tank Fire

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Good little history lesson about the naming of “Pvt Bolio Road”

According to the Monterey Fire Department’s history of the event, “A freak storm covered the Monterey Bay. It had a series of hail, wind, rain, lightning and thunder. Lightning split a tree on the Presidio. Then, at 10:10 a.m., a bolt of lightning struck the top of one of the Associated Oil storage tanks near the wharf in Monterey. The 55,000 barrel tank, filled with oil and covered only with a layer of oil paper, burst into flame, and huge clouds of black smoke rose into the sky.”

Many pictures of the fire at the Hathaway’s California Views.

Professor Toro – The 1924 Cannery Row Oil Tank Fire

Pave Our Waterfront – Ocean View Plaza Approved

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The cannery that once stood there was a favorite place to play. Loaded with danger and excitement. And many easy access points.

The Ocean View Plaza on Cannery Row could not receive approval without securing a water supply. But the project now has its water after the California Coastal Commission voted 10-2 on Thursday to approve the project’s proposed desalination plant.

The plan calls for a replica of the San Xavier fish-reduction plant warehouse, a community park, renovation of the Stohans building, a history-oriented plaza and a bridge across the 400-500 block of Cannery Row.

Ocean Veiw Plaza

The last un-redeveloped property on the ‘Row

Stohans

Pave Our Waterfront – Ocean View Plaza Approved

Barbara bAss Evans Fails

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Onward, Pave Our Waterfront.

All the slab-hugging hippies can blame bAss Evans for losing the fight.
Ocean Veiw Plaza

The ruling issued Thursday by a three-judge panel of the 6th District Court of Appeal slapped down an appeal filed by the Save Our Waterfront Committee.

The project, approved by the Monterey City Council in June 2004, calls for its own water supply from a desalination plant because the city has no more water available. The City Council volunteered to serve as the board of directors of the special district for the desalination plant.

The project, first proposed in 1997, calls for four buildings in a 92,000-square-foot complex on both sides of Cannery Row with shops,restaurant space, 38 market-rate condominiums and 13 low-cost housing units.

Barbara bAss Evans Fails

Clement Monterey Set To Open

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Clement Ocean Edge

The 208-room, $80 million project straddles the 700 block of Cannery Row, with 110 rooms on the ocean side and 98 on the inland side, he said.

The hotel will include a 350-car garage — enough for guests and employees — two ballrooms, a swimming pool, whirlpool, spa, exercise room and a “kids’ club” with, among other amenities, an indoor climbing wall.

Sounds good. A Cannery Row hotel taking on a resort like quality. Check the Trip Advisor story for a rundown on the neighboring hotels. P.G. motels better find a way to handle the overflow.

Work continued in a desultory fashion over the years to keep the hotel’s building permit alive, but the “hole in the row” remained a derelict eyesore, its foundations filled with rainwater and inhabited by frogs.

Frogs? Where was Mack & the gang when we needed them?

Clement Monterey Set To Open

Divers’ Monument Unveiled On Cannery Row

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It’s over on the quiet end of the Row, near the Coast Guard. Another tiny reminder that Cannery Row was once more than the home a Fish Jail and tourist trap. Well done.

Cannery Row Divers Memorial Cannery Row Divers Names

Toiling in thick clouds of fish scales, entrails, muck and silk, usually in zero visibility, was a daily ritual for Nonella, George Fraley, Oscar Lager, Eddie Bushnell and several other divers and tenders who helped make Monterey the “Sardine Capital of the World” between 1927 and 1950, until overfishing and pollutants killed the industry.

Those men, including two who were killed while diving — Tom Pierce and Henry Porter — were honored Friday at San Carlos Beach Park on Cannery Row when The Cannery Row Foundation and the Historic Divers Society unveiled a bronze bust of a vintage diving helmet at a dedication ceremony next to the water.

See also the John Cernry paintings of the ones that avoided work, with style.

Divers’ Monument Unveiled On Cannery Row

Cannery Row Traffic Going One Way?

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Cannery Row Detour

A proposal to turn Monterey’s Cannery Row into a one-way street has some people concerned over the negative impact on business. The topic will be discussed Tuesday night at City Hall.

Rich Deal, the City Traffic Engineer will recommend the permanent change, following the reopening of Cannery Row in May. The street has been partially closed, and on a one-way configuration for over a year, during the construction of a new hotel.

The Cannery Row Company, which owns 70% of the property, is challenging the city, and requesting the street return to the two-way configuration in May.

Update – City Council Says No

City Manager Fred Meurer recommended setting the matter aside after he learned that Clement Chen, developer of the 208-room Intercontinental The Clement Monterey hotel in the 700 block of Cannery Row, had indicated he may change his mind about supporting the change in traffic flow. Part of Cannery Row has been one-way during construction of the hotel.

In a letter to city traffic engineer Richard Deal, Chen earlier wrote that he was concerned about double-parked delivery trucks in the 700 block of the Row, which he said created gridlock when the two-way street was open and that he felt a one-way routing would solve that problem.

Make deliveries between 7 and 10 AM. Or provide loading zones. No reason to screw up traffic with one-way streets.

Cannery Row Traffic Going One Way?

The IMAX Movie House Opening Soon

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A filmstrip for each eye, a screen 65 feet high in a room stacked with 40 high-definition speakers and soundproofing a foot thick.

It’s IMAX, and it’s opening soon on Cannery Row.

While no official opening date has been set, Weinert expects the theater will open its doors within a month, and possibly as early as two weeks from now.

Cannery Row is becoming the downtown Monterey has needed for over 25 years. IMAX now is “the most modern movie site on the Peninsula with the latest technology in the safest town.” (Quote of Moe Ammar on reopening of the Lighthouse Cinema)

The IMAX Movie House Opening Soon