John Steinbeck - Cannery Row - Monterey, CA
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N 36° 36.649 W 121° 53.863
10S E 598576 N 4052265
A mural and a quotation from John Steinbeck's Cannery Row.
Waymark Code: WMRP2Z
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2016
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A plaque accompanyiog a mural depicting the down and out of Cannery Row is itself a tiny mural depicting a sardine can and reads:
"The cannery whistles scream and all over the town men and women scramble into their clothes and come running down to the row to go to work ... The canneries rumble and rattle and squeak until the last fish is cleaned and cut and cooked and canned and then the whistles scream again and the dripping, smelly, tired Wops and Chinamen and Polaks, men and women, straggle out and droop their ways up the hill into the town and Cannery Row becomes itself again - quiet and magical.
John Steinbeck
Cannery Row"
John Steinbeck wrote several books about this area. Wikipedia (
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"John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books, and five collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony (1937). The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years since it was published, it sold 14 million copies.
The winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, he has been called "a giant of American letters". His works are widely read abroad and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.
Most of Steinbeck's work is set in southern and central California, particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice, especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists."