Scrap Lundy, renowned abalone historian, researcher and board member of the Cannery Row Foundation, sits where "Gabe" (Steinbeck's model for Mack in "Cannery Row") had his picture taken in 1945 by photogprapher Peter Stackpole which appears on the Penguin paperback edition of "Cannery Row." 

My dear old friend, Charlie Nonella, who made my history of Cannery Row possible. A roughneck cannery worker and closest pal of Harold Otis Bicknell (Gabe), he is one of the composite characters in John Steinbeck's story of the Row in the mid-late 1930s--about the real people and places in his "fiction" about bums and bordellos, and a marine biologist named Ed Ricketts. Charlie's gone now, but he left his mark on the Row in a most unexpected way: a nearly photographic memory of its canning era for posterity.

The Ed Ricketts Memorial at Drake Avenue and Wave Street, the site of his May, 1948, collison with the evening Del Monte Express train. A Cannery Row Foundation project, with a major donors plaque. Funding still in progress. 

A rare "skin off" view of Ed Ricketts' Pacific Biological Lab during structural improvements by the City of Monterey. With repairs now completed, the Lab shows no signs of the work to preserve this historic and literary shrine of old Cannery Row. The restoration won a Governor's historic Preservation Award for the City of Monterey.