Cannery Row
Historic area in Monterey, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Cannery Row (disambiguation).
Cannery Row is the waterfront street bordering the city of Pacific Grove, California, but officially in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California. It was the site of a number of now-defunct sardine canning factories. The last cannery closed in 1973. The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his novel Cannery Row.[1] In the novel's opening sentence, Steinbeck described the street as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream."