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One Man, Two Worlds Marker image, Touch for more information
By Barry Swackhamer, April 23, 2012
One Man, Two Worlds Marker
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1 California, Monterey County, Monterey — One Man, Two WorldsHistoric Cannery Row
Doc, the legend John Steinbeck used his close friend and collaborator, Edward Ricketts, as a model for the famous fictional character Doc. In the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday, set in the 1930s and 1940s, the kindly Doc is a gentle, . . . Map (db m55142) HM
2 California, Monterey County, Monterey — Ed Ricketts’s BackyardHistoric Cannery Row
You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts’s lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around the world. What . . . Map (db m55143) HM
3 California, Monterey County, Monterey — Ed Ricketts’s BackyardHistoric Cannery Row
You are looking at the backyard of Ed Ricketts’s lab, Pacific Biological Laboratories, where Ricketts lived and worked during the 1930 and 1940s. He collected and preserved tide pool plants and animals and sold them to schools around the world. What . . . Map (db m55143) HM
4 California, Monterey County, Monterey — ScienceHistoric Cannery Row
Edward F. Ricketts, owner-operator of Pacific Biological Laboratories, was described by a biographer as “a devoted and rational biologist who sought to uncover scientific truth.” A true renaissance man, Ricketts wrote extensively on a . . . Map (db m55145) HM
5 California, Monterey County, Monterey — The Del Mar Canning Company, 1927-1947Historic Cannery Row
The Del Mar Canning Company was established in 1927 on this site, the original location of the Bayside Fish & Flour Company, a Japanese-operated reduction plant established in 1916. The Del Mar quickly rose to prominence in the canning industry . . . Map (db m55164) HM
 
 
 
 
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Mar. 19, 2024