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Carmel, Monterey Peninsula
Spanish soldiers occupied a bar racks in the old Catholic Mission on the great peninsula of Carmel, Monterey. After the Spaniards, the Bohemians arrived in numbers.
Top 10 Android and Me posts for 2009 It is hard to believe how fast 2009 flew by. This site started as a hobby and continued to evolve as the pageviews have exploded. I have never run a high traffic blog (so I’m not sure what is considered...
Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, Lake Tahoe, CA The Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course is located in Lake Tahoe, CA Phone: 888.881.8659 Website: http://www.edgewood-tahoe.com/ Course History: This is a stunning course that first opened its doors in 1968, and has since gone on to receive numerous accolades and an...
Why The Dow Jones Is A Joke, But Unfortunately Important "In other news the Dow dropped 1,000 points in an unprecedented decent. Months ago the Dow was steady at 13,000, it is now below 8,000" I'm sure you've heard or read something similar to the statement above. You see that...
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Rancho Canada Golf Course Rancho Canada Golf Course Rancho Canada Golf Course is located in: Carmel, CA Phone: (800) 536-9459 Website: http://www.ranchocanada.com Course History: This course is actually two in one, with the East and West course. By far, the East Course...
Cannery Row found its name on John Steinbeck’s feisty novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.
From an old sardine canning center, this oceanfront strip amazingly transformed into a neighborhood of wax museums and dainty antique shop.
The old Cannery Row of yore was a collection of corrugated warehouses, dilapidated stores, seedy hotels, and gaudy whorehouses. There were about 18 canneries, 100 fishing boats, and 4000 workers populating the place. The odor was horrible, but for several decades the sardine industry breathed life into the Monterey economy. The business died just before Cannery Row was published in 1945.
Before the entire oceanfront strip was developed in the early 1980s, you could still capture a sense of the old Cannery Row. A few weather beaten factories remained. Rust stained their ribbed sides, windows were punched, and roofs had settled to an inward curve. In places, the stone pilings of old loading docks still stood, haunted by seagulls. Now only tourists and memories remain.
At the other end of the Row, Steinbeck aficionados will find a few literary settings. La Ida Cafe has given way to Kalisa’s (851 Cannery Row), but retains the same tumbledown appearance; Wing Chong Market is now the Alicia’s Antiques (835 Cannery Row), and the building that housed Doc Rickett’s Marine Lab stands at 800 Cannery Row.
In the middle you’ll encounter the scene of the mailing of Cannery Row. Old warehouses have been renovated into shopping centers, new buildings have risen, and the entire area has experienced a face lift. Brightest tooth in the new smile is the Edgewater Packing Company, a miniature amusement park with a hand-carved carousel.
The latest addition is the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a state-of-the-art museum that re-creates the natural habitat of local sea life. Monterey Bay is one of the world’s biggest submarine canyons, deeper than the Grand Canyon. At the aquarium you’ll encounter about 100 display tanks representing the wealth of underwater life that inhabits this mineral-rich valley.
For instance, the Monterey Bay Tank, a 90-foot-long glass enclosure, portrays the local submarine world complete with sharks, brilliant reef fish, and creosote-oozing pilings. Another aquarium contains ama ture kelp forest crowded with fish. Together the many displays and exhibitions make it one of the world’s great aquariums.
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Ogilvy takes the SBS Championship Geoff Ogilvy took the SBS Championship on Sunday in Kapalua, Hawaii with -22. It was a familiar feeling for Ogilvy, who won here last year by 6 shots and maintained a fairly easily lead. This year he was behind by...
Sam Querrey Wins the Morgan Keenan Championship Sam Querrey defeated John Isner on Sunday in Memphis, Tennessee, to win the Morgan Keenan Championship, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5), 6-3. That's an impressive win for a player who just 4 months ago thought an accident may have ended his...
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Salinas , the heart of the “salad bowl of the world” is the birthplace of Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968). His home , a two story Victorian on Central and Stone streets , has been restored and opened as a restaurant. Downstairs is the Best Cellar Gift Shop offering local crafts and a selection of the author’s works.
Target #277: East of Eden (1955, Elia Kazan) – I haven’t read John Steinbeck’s novel “East of Eden,” but I’m familiar with enough of the author’s work to know that he wasn’t a “glass half-full” kind of man. Steinbeck’s characters appear to persist despite their misery, …
Baseball Sunday with Daniel Ford: From the Archives:Summer Poetry – John Steinbeck’s East of Eden was recommended to me last summer by Next Magazine’s dining editor Peter Sherwood (whose blog Evenings with Peter is a MUST read). I devoured the novel in short order and it instantly became one of my …
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Auction Results ~ John Steinbeck « Bygone Books Blog – Condition: tape residue to free endpapers; slight rubbing at head of jacket spine. First edition, first issue inscribed by Steinbeck, “For Katherine Lowry/ John Steinbeck” on endpaper. With the bullet on p. 88. Goldstone & Payne A7a. …
East of Eden by John Steinbeck – Steinbeck traces the major events of the lives of multiple families that populated the Salinas Valley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The novel culminates in a fascinating reprisal of the story of Cain and Abel, carrying the …
Coast Road. A Steinbeck Study « The Coast Road – No Coast Road for Steinbeck’s characters to travel upon. Zero mentions in over 42 years of writing and 25 literary efforts. Although John Steinbeck wrote from his teens in the late nineteen-teens until his death in 1962, the man fails …
Book Covers Anonymous: Jen Wang: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck – Jen Wang: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck. A new Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. This is a great solution to showing the history of Steinbeck by incorporating covers of his original first editions published in the 30s and 40s. …
Fun Facts about Winter December 22 is the first day of winter for all the folks in the Northern Hemisphere! The sun is the furthest away from the equator, shining directly over the Tropic of Capricorn (Alice Springs, Australia and Sao Paulo, Brazil are...
Monday Morning Money - Freezing Cold Weekend Edition Man was it cold out this weekend here in "sunny" California. I know, I know, I have no room to complain. But I moved away from the east coast to get away from this stuff and it seems to have...
Book Review: Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary I managed to sneak another romance novel in time for Halloween that has a spooky overtone. Wild Sight by Loucinda McGary takes place in a fictional town in Ireland with a lot of real cities and sights thrown in for...
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Review: Yours Until Dawn by Teresa Medeiros Welcome to RRN Amy! I am so happy to have you with us today! Amy is the first entrant into the current blog giveaway contest here at RRN. She's hoping to win a signed copy of Teresa Medeiros' Some Like...
There are no shortage of written materials for readers dealing with and concerning history and historical perspectives and backgrounds of California and is native California pioneers. A rich perspective at that. Although our current perspective of California being a lush almost Mediterranean climate place with all the oodles of modern conveniences whether it be by car or swimming pools it was not always that easy luxurious way.
Silnas native John Steinbeck , can be considered one of the state’s classic authors. and painted a most vivid portrayl of early California proletarian life in the early to mid 1900’s. His book “The Grapes of Wrath” remains a classic account of itinerant farm laborers coming into California in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930’s. “Canery Row” has forever made the Monterey waterfront famous and lastly “East of Eden” offers insight into the ways of life of Salinas,
Famed humoirst Mark Twain (Samuel Clements) penned vivid tales during California’s “Gold Rush” including one of his most popular works “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County” ( an annual gold rush competition). Other good Gold Rush reads include Bret Harte’s “The Luck of the Roaring Camp”, a sentimental tale of hard luck minorsand their false toughness and J.S. Hollida’ys “The World Rushed In”, a very fine account of the California Gold Rush era.
Visit San Francisco, CA: The UN-Official Guide The City San Francisco is a city of hills and distinct neighborhoods. As a general rule, elevation means wealth – the higher up you are, the better off you are. Commercial square-footage is surprisingly small and mostly confined to the...
In Defense of Living Off Dividends Living Off Dividends (aka WealthBuildingLessons (WAB) on Prosper) wrote a guest post on the Prosper Blog: Why I Love Prosper.com. The blog post has generated some heated comments due to one aspect of the post. WAB claimed "over 13% annualized...
Gold rush! Big money seen for iPhone, smartphone app developers A gold rush for developers who build applications for the iPhone and other smartphones is in the works, with U.S. revenues from smartphone apps expected to increase by a factor of more than 10 through 2013, to $4.2 billion. That...
How Much Does Canceling Credit Cards Affect Your Credit Score? This article is by staff writer Adam Baker, whose own blog paid homage to the movie, Fight Club, with the post Tyler Durden’s Guide to Personal Finance. While I generally check my credit report every 4 months or so, the...
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