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Photographer: Denise Boose
Taken: March 7, 2015
Caption: John Steinbeck 1902-1968
Additional Description: "Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem; A stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostaligia, a dream, cannery row is the gathered and scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses...." ---John Steinback Cannery Row,. 1945 Donated to the People of Monterey by Mr. & Mrs. Merle W. Strauch C.W. Brown, sculpturess 1972
Submitted: March 28, 2015, by Denise Boose of Tehachapi, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p304150
File Size: 0.939 Megabytes

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