Oct. 26 to Oct. 27 We visited Monterey where John Steinbeck lived and wrote his books like the cannery row, the street where the sardine canneries where and which was named after him in 1958.We saw the aquarium and the story about the city. Between 1930 and 1940 Monterey became the worlds sardine capital processing as much as 250 000 tons of sardines in the peak season. Then suddenly the sardines vanished in the mid 1950 and in 1964 the last cannery closed.
" Economic devastation settled in on Monterey's fishing and canning industries, ending it forever as Montereys major economic engine. Years of decline, disintegration, fire and collapse set in on a street that had no other immediate usefulness to a fish canning industry without fish. But the curious came. To see Cannery Row and experience its funky, ghostlike revival as a tourist attraction--due largely to the magic of the fame Steinbeck's fiction bestowed upon it. Today Cannery Row enjoys a commercial, historical and literary Renaissance as the major tourism destination in Monterey."
Unfortunately Linda lost her camera and there are no pictures from the nice city and beaches of Carmel. But we were lucky as we remembered having been in a Café in Monterey.
So we drove back and the camera was there as we left it hanging on a chair !
