Welcome to

The Cannery Row Foundation Web Site

and our passion for the historical, literary, sociological
and ecological lessons
of "America's Most Famous Street"

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Celebrating our 27 years of service to Cannery Row.



The Annual Cannery Row Foundation
Cannery Row Ed Ricketts' Birthday
Pacific Biological Laboratories
"Doc's Lab" Public Tours
800 Cannery Row, Monterey

Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Hourly tours begin at 9:00 AM;
last tour starts at 5:00 PM.
Donation $15 per person
(may be made in cash or personal check at the door)

BY RESERVATION ONLY!

Be early for your tour • check directions • parking on Cannery Row
can take some time—allow for it. The Lab is near the Aquarium.

Bring your Camera and lots of batteries!

For Reservations, click here!

For Directions, click here!

For a look at the Lab past, click here!

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NEW:
Vintage Views of the Cannery Row Foundation
(a little of our history — constantly under construction)

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Follow this link to the 2009
Cannery Row Foundation
"Christmas In The Adobes"

featuring

Thursday night videos of
Barbara Evan's Flamenco Dancers
at the CRF's Steinbeck's Lara Soto adobe tour:
(Cell phone quality video and audio until real video arrives)
1. "Sevilliana"
2. More "Sevilliana"
3. Artist Lana Loukianenko joins in the festivities




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Follow this link to the Kalsia Moore Archive


blog banner

(Click on Kalisa)

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Announcing the Kalisa Moore
"Queen of Cannery Row" Memorial!

A bronze memorial by Jesse Corsuat
to be located at Bruce Ariss Way, Cannery Row.

Fundraising has begun. Your help is requested to honor
Kalisa Moore's incredible 50 years on Cannery Row.
More informaton soon.


The Kalisa Moore Memorial Sculpture for Cannery Row
(click here)

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Celebration of Life for Kalisa Moore, the "Queen of Cannery Row"
(Click here)


Kalisa in lab
       
                                                                                                     Kalisa in Ed Ricketts' Lab, 1997
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Cannery Diver's Memorial completed (scroll below)



Become a Member here


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A new Cannery Row short feature on YouTube
by vacationing British filmmaker, Simon Morris
(posted by The History Company)

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Thank you to Ed Ricketts researcher Robbie Behrens
for the digital file of this unedited 1983 recording (in its entirety)
of an interview by

Michael Hemp with Joseph Campbell.
(a link from The History Company)

Including a visit by Joseph Campbell to Ed Ricketts' Lab,
made possible by PBL member Frank Wright.
(also in the interview)

This is interview is also part of the collection of interviews by historian Michael Hemp
digitized by and for the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.



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A New Feature of the CRF Website!

HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT THE CANNERY ROW FOUNDATION
#1. George Walker, Attorney.
We owe the existence of the non-profit Cannery Row Foundation
to its pro-bono (no charge) incorporation in the fall of 1982 by Monterey attorney
George Walker. The legal grunt work was performed by one of his
young attorneys, Robert Rosenthal. We owe an enormous debt of gratitude
to them both for the articles of incorporation accepted and promulgated by
the State of California on February 17th, 1983.

—     
Michael K. Hemp
                                                            Founder and 2009 President of the Board of Directors

(Watch for more CRF historical facts)

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ANNOUNCING!
The publication of A. L. "Scrap" Lundy's

"Real Life on Cannery Row: 
Real People, Places and Events that Inspired John Steinbeck."
 The book’s forward is by Thomas Steinbeck

Lundy Covers

Photos below from the Saturday, October 18th, 2008 Premier Book Release
2:00 PM at the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA.

NSC Lundy

The National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.
Lundy signing

Author and CRF Board Member, Scrap Lundy.

                                                                                                                         Michael Hemp photos
"Real Life on Cannery Row: 

Real People, Places and Events that Inspired John Steinbeck"
available soon from the Cannery Row Foundation website.




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Announcing the
Monterey County exhibition
of the historic Cannery Row model (1943-1946)
at the Monterey Maritime & History Museum,
5 Portola Plaza near Fisherman's Wharf
—on loan to the Cannery Row Foundation by
the Oakland Museum of California!

Hours 10-5 Daily, except Closed Mondays.
Admission is Free.

This is a free public exhibition of the incredible
historic model of Cannery Row by Bill Johnk
in an extended exhibit in Monterey!

By special arrangement with the Oakland Museum of California,
and in cooperation with the Monterey Maritime and History Museum,
the model will be in Monterey as an extended exhibit—as the centerpiece of
the 25th Anniversary of the Cannery Row Foundation.


Most of the book "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck happens in
this model
of old Ocean View Avenue, nicknamed, "Cannery Row."


row model title

More views by clicking here.


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CANNERY DIVERS MEMORIAL COMPLETED!

Pavers installation around the memorial completes the design.

New photos of the project completed on November 2, 2009:
(Installed by Jim Young Masonry, Monterey)

pavers 1     pavers 2     pavers 3
Click on each image for larger view.
(MK Hemp photos)


Details of the Cannery Divers Memorial Project
to the brave hard hat divers of Old Cannery Row. The Row
would never have achieved its fame without them.

DONORS

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First photos of the unveiling and dedication
ceremonies at 1:00 PM, Friday April 18th, 2008.

(Send your digital photos to us)


NEW!
Click here for a link to Historical Markers Data Base
The Cannery Row Divers Memorial is on it.

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E-mail us at:
info@canneryrow.org

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Authentic Cannery Row historic sardines labels to download,
compliments of www.SardineKing.com

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Kalisa's La Ida Cafe passes into Cannery Row history
as "The Queen of Cannery Row" finds new digs:
Wave Street Studios (the site of the historic home of
Quock Mui, aka "Spanish Mary") where Kalisa Moore lived
for several years; now the site of Wave Street Studios
and the Quock Mui Tea Room & Gift Shop

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A look back into Cannery Row, October 1976:
The Hovden Fishmeal Warehouse dock with
Kalisa's restaurant sign at David Avenue tracks.

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The "Western Flyer" on-line Newsletter
of The Cannery Row Foundation

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Photo Coverage Summary of the Great Cannery Row Reunion 2005

THE GREAT CANNERY ROW REUNION OF 2005 was held at the
MONTEREY CONFERENCE CENTER—STEINBECK FORUM
AND (3RD LEVEL) CONCOURSE—SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8TH, 2005.


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