Chinatown Market

Chinatown Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Oakland, California

Nappa Cabbage in Chinatown

Nappa Cabbage in Chinatown, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Oakland, California

Plums in Chinatown

Plums in Chinatown, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Oakland, California

Chinatown Market

Chinatown Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Produce Display in Chinatown
Oakland, California

Asian Pears in Chinatown

Asian Pears in Chinatown, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Chinatown
Oakland, California

Chinatown Market

Chinatown Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Oakland, California

Pluots

Pluots, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Chinatown
Oakland, California

Chinatown Market

Chinatown Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Oakland, California

Chinatown Market

Chinatown Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"A melon-seller never cries 'bitter melons' nor a wine seller 'thin wine'." - Chinese proverb.

Saturday Morning, Shopping in Chinatown.
Oakland, California

Bananas

Bananas, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Chinatown
Oakland, California

Ken Wah Market

Ken Wah Market, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Chinatown
Oakland, California

Cannery Row Foggy Morning

Cannery Row Foggy Morning, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"Early morning is a time of magic in Cannery Row." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Doc Ricketts' Lab

Doc Ricketts' Lab, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Cannery Row
Monterey, California

"And Western Biological sells bugs and snails and spiders, and rattlesnakes, and rats, and honey bees and gila monsters. These are all for sale." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

The Old & The New on Cannery Row

The Old & The New on Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Monterey, California

"I have never resisted change, even when it has been called progress, and yet I felt resentment toward the strangers swamping what I thought of as my country with noise and clutter and the inevitable rings of junk. And of course these new people will resent the newer people. We who were born here and our parents also felt a strange superiority over newcomers, barbarians, 'forestieri', and they, the foreigners, resented us and even made a rude poem about us:

The miner came in forty-nine
The whores in fifty-one.
And when they got together,
They made a Native Son."

John Steinbeck, in "Travels With Charley"

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"The canneries which once put up a sickening stench are gone, their places filled with restaurants, antique shops, and the like." - John Steinbeck, in "Travels With Charley"

Doc's Lab

Doc's Lab, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"Doc bought a pint of Old Tennis Shoes and later sent Mack out with money to buy another pint. The two of them sat in the laboratory side by side, staring into the aquarium, resting their elbows on the shelf, and they got to the point where they were mixing a little water with the whisky." - John Steinbeck, in "Sweet Thursday"

Cannery Row,
Monterey, California

Fisherman's Wharf

Fisherman's Wharf, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Monterey, California

Sunrise Over Puerto Vallarta

Sunrise Over Puerto Vallarta, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Puerto Vallarta, México,

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Monterey, California

"Certainly all of Cannery Row and probably all of Monterey felt that a change had come." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Carmel Mission

Carmel Mission, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

La Misión de San Carlos Borroméo de Carmelo

Carmel, California

Chinatown Slide Show

Chinatown Slide Show, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Monterey Canning Company

Monterey Canning Company, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Cannery Row
Monterey, California

Steinbeck's Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

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Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

Monterey, California

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"In a moment of local love Dora named her place the Bear Flag Restaurant and the stories are many of people who have gone in for a sandwich." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Cannery Row

Cannery Row, a photo by Old Jingleballicks on Flickr.

"And through the back door comes the smell of kelp and barnacles when the tide is out and the smell of salt and spray when the tide is in." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"

Steinbeck's Cannery Row

Monterey, California

Cannery Row Shacks

Monterey, California

Golden Gate Bridge

Abacus

"Lee Chong's station in the grocery was behind the cigar counter. The cash register was then on his left and the abacus on his right." - John Steinbeck, in "Cannery Row"