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Cannery Row

Cannery Row is a historic waterfront street in Monterey, California, once home to a thriving sardine canning industry. Originally named Ocean View Avenue, it was nicknamed "Cannery Row" as early as 1918 and officially renamed in 1958. The area was immortalized in John Steinbeck's Cannery Row (1945) and Sweet Thursday (1954). The area retains many of its…

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Cannery Row

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples114
Avg. degree1.95
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related to Sources · 39
Cannery Row → Beyond Cannery Row, California, Carol Lynn, Chapter, Chiang, Class, Community, Connie, Cornell University Press, Fisheries, Hemp, History, Illinois Press, Immigration, In Hall, ISBN, John, Manglesdorf, McKibben, Michael Kenneth
related to Boom years (1920–1946) · 24
Cannery Row → Anglo-Europeans, Asian, At, Before, Cannery, Chinese, During, February, Great Depression, Hispanic, Hispanics, In, Japanese, March, Monterey’s, October, Portuguese, September, Sicilian, Sicilians
related to history · 16
Cannery Row → After, Business, Canneries, During Cannery Row's, Great Depression, Hovden, Hovden's, Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey's, New, Ocean View Avenue, Production, The, World War, World War II
related to Description · 15
Cannery Row → California, Coast Guard, Conveyor Bridge, Hovden Cannery, John Steinbeck's, Monterey, Monterey Bay, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Canning Company Warehouse, Ocean View Avenue, Pacific Biological Laboratories, Pacific Grove, The, These, Wing Chong Market
related to Steinbeck's Cannery Row · 11
Cannery Row → Doc, Edward, Great Depression, John Steinbeck's, Mack, Pacific Biological Laboratories, Ricketts, Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday, The, The Cannery Row
related to Tourism · 4
Cannery Row → Hovden Cannery, Monterey, The, The Monterey Bay Aquarium
related to External links · 3
Cannery Row → Dream, Ed Ricketts, MontereyNPR's Morning Edition
is a · 1
Cannery Row → historic waterfront street in Monterey

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cannery monterey row canneries sardine canning hovden fish industry early ocean bay avenue company sardines war canned aquarium view john

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Cannery Rowis ahistoric waterfront street in Monterey0.90text
tending the boilers that cooked the canned fishinstance ofwhile white men handled mechanical tasks0.80text
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)The0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Sicilian0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Japanese0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Portuguese0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Sicilians0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Hispanics0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Chinese0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Anglo-Europeans0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)In0.60section
Cannery Rowrelated to Boom years (1920–1946)Before0.60section

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