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"