Monterey - Cannery Row

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Cannery Row Description

Places of interest in Monterey include houses from the Spanish and Mexican periods, a fishing-port, which is not as busy as it once was, as well as Cannery Row, made famous by John Steinbeck's novel of the same name (1945). This once industrial street was converted some years ago into a complex of restaurants, shops, cafés and art-galleries, so that only the walls of the buildings remain as a reminder of that which Steinbeck described in his novel. For instance, the unique Monterey Bay Aquarium has been opened on the site of an old canning factory.

Other buildings in Cannery Row which are worth seeing are: No. 851: Kalisa's Lak Ida Café built in 1929, a brothel from 1936 (immortalized by Steinbeck), a coffee-house since the

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Hobbies & Activities category: Market, shopping area

Address

Cannery Row
765 Wave Street
Monterey, CA 93940-1016
United States

Map Cannery Row

Phone 1 (408) 649-6695

http://www.canneryrow.com