Websites
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If you've already seen Shmoop's guide to Steinbeck, but you still can't get enough, check out The Center for Steinbeck Studies.
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If want to hear some secret history, check out this story on the Chinese laborers who built the Western railroads.
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Don't know a limpet from an anemone? The Oceana Marine Wildlife Encyclopedia is here to help.
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Cannery Row is a real place in Monterey, California. You can even sign up for a tour of Doc's lab. (Maybe you can sit in one of his bedroom chairs. Sounds like everyone else did.)
Movie or TV Productions
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Doc finds love! In the movie, Cannery Row is combined with Steinbeck's sequel, Sweet Thursday. Nick Nolte (as Doc) and Debra Winger (as a prostitute named Suzy) star.
Articles and Interviews
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The author talks a bit about Cannery Row and his other short novels in this preface.
Video
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Michael Hemp tells us about the history of the real Cannery Row.
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Here's a scene from the movie. At the end you get a glimpse of Mack and the boys and Dora and the girls.
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Steinbeck's classic as interpreted by Sylvester and Tweetie Bird.
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There's video of the flagpole skater. Have we mentioned how much we love the Internet?
Audio
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The nice folks at NPR have interviews with former Cannery Row residents and a report on the life of Ed Ricketts.
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Here's Ravel's Pavane to a Dead Princess. It's not dubstep, but it'll do.
Images
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Steinbeck's personal logo of a winged pig.
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A Model T Ford. It comes in any color, as long as it's black.
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Cannery Row in 1945.
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So evidently tourism took over where sardine fishing left off.