Tortilla Flat Beans - Monterey, CA
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N 36° 36.939 W 121° 54.051
10S E 598289 N 4052798
Located at the entrance to the Cannery Row Brewing Company in Monterey.
Waymark Code: WMRNY5
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/14/2016
Views: 2
A relief sculpture depicts a pot of beans cooking and reads:
TORTILLA FLAT
ECV '38"
It is signed "Huff 1935"
Below is a plaque which adds:
"GRAND PROCRASTINATION
THIS SIMPLE BRONZE PLAQUE
HONORING THE WORK OF JOHN
STEINBECK WAS SCULPTURED
IN 1938 BY WILLIAM GORDON
HUFF. IT WAS DEDICATED THAT
SAME YEAR BY NOTED WESTERN
HISTORIAN DR. CHARLES L.
CAMP WITH ALL THE UNWAVER-
ING ORATORICAL PROFUNDITY
WHICH TRADITIONALLY DIS-
TINGUISHES THIS ANCIENT AND
HONORABLE ORDER.
IT TOOK 47 YEARS HOWEVER,
TO GET AROUND TO MOUNTING
IT. CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM.
REDEDICATED AND MOUNTED
AT LAST ON THIS 13TH DAY
OF JULY, 1985.
YERBA BUENA
CHAPTER NO.1
MONTEREY VIEJO
CHAPTER NO. 1846
E CLAMPUS VITUS
'HE SOWS HURRY AND
REARS INDIGESTION'
(ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON)"
Your impression of the sculpture?: 
Date Sculpture was opened for vewing?: 07/13/1985
Where is this sculpture?:
Cannery Row Brewing Company
95 Prescott Ave,
Monterey, CA USA
93940
Sculptors Name: WILLIAM GORDON HUFF
Website for sculpture?: Not listed
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