Music mural - Monterey, California - Musical Instruments on Waymarking.com

This mural was painted by John Cerney in February, 2008. Judging by the details, especially the hats, and by the Betty Boop tattoo, it's meant to be set in 1945 - in the era of Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
It's not obvious that these guys are playing at a party - indeed, it appears as if they are on their lunch or dinner break at the cannery and are just passing the time. However, this mural must be inspired somewhat by a Steinbeck quotation on parties, since the mural is next to a sardine-can shaped sign which reads:
"The nature of parties has been imperfectly studied. It is, however, generally understood that a party has a pathology, that it is a kind of an individual and that it is likely to be a very perverse individual. And it is also generally understood that a party hardly ever goes the way it is planned or intended."
John Steinbeck Cannery Row
"A project of the Cannery Row Business Improvement District, funded in part by the City of Monterey and the Thomas Sr. and Anita M. Doud Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County."

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