Sweet Thursday is a novel by John Steinbeck ( the sequel to his novel Cannery Row ).

Cannery Row looking North toward the end of the row where the Monterey Bay Aquarium now sits next to the bay

Cannery Row at night

The street name, formerly a nickname for Ocean View Avenue, became official in January 1958 to honor John Steinbeck and his well-known novel Cannery Row.

Cannery Row was the setting of John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row ( 1945 ) and Sweet Thursday ( 1954 ).

Both were the basis for the 1982 movie Cannery Row, starring Nick Nolte and Debra Winger.

Pacific Biological Laboratories, a biological supply house, was located at 800 Ocean View Avenue ( now 800 Cannery Row ) from 1928 to 1948, and operated by Edward F. Ricketts, who was the inspiration for several characters in Steinbeck novels.

Across from the laboratory still exists a Chinese-America-owned store mentioned in both Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, as well as a vacant lot that was the " home " of some of the homeless characters in the novel.

The Pacific Biological Laboratories of Ed Ricketts on Cannery Row

Today the area offshore from Cannery Row is the Edward F. Ricketts State Marine Conservation Area ( part of the larger Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary ) and is home to a large resurgent population of California sea lions.

Cannery Row itself is now a tourist attraction with many restaurants and hotels, many of which are located in former cannery buildings, and a few historic attractions.

Some privately owned fishing companies still exist on Cannery Row, housed on piers located a short distance from the historic district frequented by tourists.

In recent years, Cannery Row has become increasingly popular among sport fishermen due to extensive public fishing facilities ( sinks, countertops, ice, docking ).

MacAbee Beach and San Carlos Beach, which bookend Cannery Row are both popular spots for kayak-launching ; San Carlos Beach is one of Monterey Bay's most popular scuba-diving spots.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium ( opened 1984 ) is located at the north end of Cannery Row, at the former site of the major Hovden Cannery.

*" Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream.

" — John Steinbeck, opening sentence, Cannery Row ( 1945 ).

* Cannery Row

* The Cannery Row Foundation

* The Pat Hathaway Photo Collection: Cannery Row, Historic Monterey

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium ( MBA ) was founded in 1984 and is located on the site of a former sardine cannery on Cannery Row of the Pacific Ocean shoreline in Monterey, California.

Ricketts, whose life was an inspiration for the eventual building of the aquarium, is famous as the " Doc " of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.

* 1934 Texas Relief Cannery is in operation.

Excursion Inlet Cannery is one of the largest fish canneries in the world and was acquired by Ocean Beauty Seafoods in 2003.

Kahului is the retail center for Maui residents and there are several malls and major stores ( including department stores in the Queen Kaahumanu Center ); other significant groupings of stores are in Lāhainā such as the Lahaina Cannery Mall, the Happy Valley area of Wailuku, Maui Market Place and Maui Mall, which are both also located in Kahului, and The Shops at Wailea in Wailea.

A Kewanee boiler is also the dwelling place for the character Suzie DeSoto, played by Debra Winger, in the 1982 film version of John Steinbeck's book Cannery Row.

Pacific Wharf Pacific Wharf is based on Monterey's Cannery Row area, especially as depicted in John Steinbeck's novels, and also resembles San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf.

) " The Sardine Factory " is a real restaurant and bar still at the same location as in the film, at Prescott and Wave Street, just one block up from Cannery Row in Monterey.

Billings ' death is described in Chapter 12 of John Steinbeck's fictional Cannery Row.

A variation of this rhyme is repeated by a young boy in John Steinbeck's novel Cannery Row in mockery of a Chinese man.

Over the years, due to its still active fishing fleet, historic buildings, and National Historic Site, The Gulf of Georgia Cannery, Steveston is still very much a small fishing village, though changing quickly.

Steinbeck often used myths and themes or biblical stories in his novels: Cup of Gold is a retelling of the myth of Henry Morgan the pirate ; Tortilla Flat and Cannery Row employ the King Arthur fables.

The Artashat Cannery is supplied with modern technology, while the Artashat Winery which was opened in 1995 is considered to be one of the most developed factories in Armenia.

Ricketts was also portrayed as " Doc " in Sweet Thursday, the sequel to Cannery Row ; as " Friend Ed " in Burning Bright ; as " Doc Burton " in In Dubious Battle ; as Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath ; and as " Doctor Winter " in The Moon is Down.

In 1933 The Cannery Boat and other Japanese short stories was translated and published by the International Publishers in New York.

Gilger's architectural work includes the landmark house " Edgewater " in Mill Valley in Marin County, California, built in 2003 by Lehman Brothers of New York ; the conversion of the 1894 Del Monte Cannery Building in Santa Rosa, California into the 6th Street Playhouse in 2005 ; " Park Lane Village Square ", a $ 100 million residential / commercial mixed-use project in Santa Rosa, completed in 2009 ; and the Cloverdale Performing Arts Center for the city of Cloverdale, California, which opened December 2010.

The aquarium occupies land at the end of Cannery Row ( once Ocean View Avenue ) in Monterey, at the site of the Hovden Cannery, a sardine cannery that helped to define the character of Monterey from the time it was built in 1916, to the day when it was the last cannery on the Row to close in 1973, after sardine fishing collapsed.

Image: Old cannery on Monterey Bay. JPG | Monterey Bay seen with the old Cannery Foundations

Tourist attractions include Cannery Row in Monterey, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the theatres, galleries and white sand beaches of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the golf courses of Pebble Beach and the Monterey Peninsula, the rugged coastline of Big Sur and Hearst Castle in San Simeon.

Steinbeck would later return to some of the panhandling locals of Monterey ( though not the Spanish paisanos of the Flat ) in his novel Cannery Row ( 1945 ).

* Cannery Row Mirror Maze, Monterey, California, USA