Editing Cannery Row (section)

{{short description|Historic area in Monterey, California}}
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[[File:Line3012 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg|thumb|right|Cannery Row looking towards its northern terminus where the [[Monterey Bay Aquarium]] stands today, partly housed within the surviving [[Hovden Cannery]] building.]]
[[File:Cannery Row at night.jpg|thumb|Cannery Row at night]]

'''Cannery Row''' is a waterfront street in the New Monterey neighborhood of [[Monterey, California]], known for formerly being home to a number of now-defunct [[sardine]] [[cannery|canneries]]. The last of these closed in 1973. The street, formerly '''Ocean View Avenue''', was officially renamed in January 1958 to honor [[John Steinbeck]] and his novel ''[[Cannery Row (novel)|Cannery Row]]'', though the nickname had existed before the book was published.<ref name="seemonterey.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.seemonterey.com/directory/cannery-row/|title=Cannery Row &#124; See Monterey County, CA}}</ref> In the novel's opening sentence, Steinbeck described the street as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream." The street borders the adjacent city of [[Pacific Grove, California|Pacific Grove]].