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Article: Monterey swallows its 'Grapes of Wrath,' honors John Steinbeck. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- March 1, 1994
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MONTEREY, Calif. _ Bruce Ariss unlocks a dank wooden box of a building, releasing the musty scent of fish and stale beer as sunlight washes in off Monterey Bay.
The rays illuminate the scuffed plank floors, splintery walls and beamed ceilings that form ``Doc'' Ricketts' lab, a rustic hideaway essentially unchanged since being immortalized in ``Cannery Row.''
For Ariss, 83, crossing the threshold is a journey back to the sardine-canning days when friend John Steinbeck visited Doc's lab to absorb for his novels the lives of locals, whom he then called ``whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches.''
Steinbeck could have added ``grudge-holders.'' Half a century of ...
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...John Steinbeck wrote in his classic novel Cannery Row, "Lee Chong's grocery, while not a model of neatness ... Market and La Ida Caf, two Cannery Row landmarks that John Steinbeck immortalized. Re-zoning the literary attractions would ...
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