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

Cannery Row is the waterfront street in the New Monterey section of Monterey, California.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The actress was due to star in an 1982 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but was fired by the producers a few days into production ( they claimed that the 40 year old was too old to play the character ).

In 1982 she co-starred with Nick Nolte in Cannery Row and with Richard Gere in An Officer and a Gentleman, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

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

In 1975, the Examiner was purchased by the Alaska Cannery Workers Association for $ 1 and became an activist, community-based newspaper.

Although the paper became independent three years later, it continued the tradition of community activism that was firmly established under the Alaska Cannery Workers Association.

Less than three years later, Governor Merriam was called upon to intervene in another labor dispute, the Stockton Cannery Strike of 1937 in which one person died and 50 injured.

The Gulf of Georgia Cannery, built in 1894 and at one time the largest plant in British Columbia, was reopened as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1994, and remains open today, recently given an award for Canada's best historic site.

The Orca Cannery operated on the south shore of the inlet ; there was a post office at that location from 1894.

The Odiak Cannery was located 3 miles southwest of Orca, at the present location of Cordova.

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.

Mallory was a regular performer at The Cannery for many years, singing selections from a vast repertoire.

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.

* John Steinbeck – 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.

A critique of John Steinbeck's The Short Reign of Pippin IV by Peter Lisca describes the story as lacking the burlesque humor of Tortilla Flat, the Rabelaisin humor of St. Katy the Virgin, the folk humor of Grapes of Wrath, the tender humor of Cannery Row, the " terrible " Jonathan Swiftian humor of the Wayward Bus, and ( instead ) consisting of " a sophomoric humor of grotesque improbability and wordplay.

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

After a show at the Cannery Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas in May 2009, The Standells reformed with Tamblyn and former bassist John Fleck, along with guitarist Paul Downing and veteran drummer Greg Burnham.

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

Suttree has been compared to James Joyce's Ulysses, John Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and called " a doomed version " of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

The movie is adapted from John Steinbeck's novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.