Research Materials

1938 aerial photo by Ted McKay from the Pat Hathaway Collection of California Views

#19    Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological Laboratories -- "Doc's" Western Biological Laboratory

#20    Flora Wood's "Lone Star Cafe" -- the Bear Flag Restaurant of "Cannery Row"

#17    The "vacant lot" and the black cypress of "Cannery Row"

#10    The Palace Flophouse of "Cannery Row"  This tri-plex for cannery workers known as the "Palace" was discribed by Steinbeck as a fish meal barn. The actual barn (#9) he uses as his model for the Palace Flophouse and Grill of "Cannery Row" is four lots away on Wave Street. (#9 on the indexed photo)

#14    The Wing Chong Market of the    Yee family

#13    The La Ida Cafe -- where Eddie, the part-time bartender, poured all the leftover drinks from the night into a jug for Mack and the Boys.

Un-annotated:
    The Sea Pride Canning Co. is in the foreground of this 1938 McKay aerial photo from the Hathaway Collection. This was an early Japanese cannery, established in 1917, which became the Sea Pride in 1925.

    The Del Mar Cannery to the left of Ed Ricketts' Lab became the Sun Gate-West Harbor and was destroyed by fire in December 1951.

    816 Wave Street   can be seen in the far right, above the railroad track behind the Wing Chong Market.