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Article: Cannery Row shopping mall stirs up the grapes of wrath
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 20, 1999
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CANNERY Row in Monterey in California, wrote John Steinbeck in his
famous novel of the same name, "is a poem, a stink, a grating noise,
a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream".
But more than half a century after Steinbeck immortalised the area
in print, it has become the focus of a bitter dispute over its
future.
Developers have come up with an ambitious plan to erase the
landmarks mentioned in Steinbeck's novel and replace them with a huge
shopping mall.
Most of the places described by Steinbeck have already been
demolished, including Lee Chong's grocery store, where "a man could
find everything he needed or wanted to live and to be happy", and
Dora's celebrated brothel, ...