American writer John Steinbeck described a Monterey cannery and brothels, of hustlers and young people seeking the American dream. The Californian city, to what is seen, he took it with a sense of humor and does not seem to hold a grudge: docks baptized with the name of one of his novels, “Cannery Row”, and the author of "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" in the seaside town has a museum in his memory, the National Steinbeck Center.
In a few hours I stopped Monterey Road Carmel, where I wanted to visit the mission built by the Spaniard Fray Junipero Serra, the evangelization of California, but I got on the wrong bus. The driver kept making stops, each more irritating, on the route of the Great South, one of the most scenic West Coast. A viewpoint on the Pacific, bar of a desolate road, market fruit and vegetable… We arrived at night and Carmel Mission was closed. I would have eaten the driver at the time, but not at hand. In any case, that's another story.
Monterey Steinbeck described a cannery and brothels, of hustlers and young people seeking the American dream
It took nearly four hours to reach the first capital of California, founded by the Spanish in 1770, Mexican and then American hands then delivered to the mid-nineteenth century. The bus was half empty. Just twenty passengers. They headed all the way to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one of the largest in the country. We wanted to see fish.
We were in the middle of Cannery Row, from the epicenter of the novela of Steinbeck, body and jump-start calling me looking for that nostalgia, of this "aura of decay" (in the words of Nobel prize) in which the area plunged late 50 Irseer to pique the canning, when 235.000 tons of sardines a year was already a broken dream. Simply, had fleeced the entire Monterey Bay. Canning, who had survived the Great Depression and two world wars fell a victim to his own greed.
All bus passengers they headed the way to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one of the largest in the country. We wanted to see fish
The Americans, much given to overcome failures, They reinvented the old Ocean View Boulevard. No longer "rumbles and groans and screams and rattles while the silver rivers of fish are dumped into boats". The canneries, brothels like the beloved Dora the novel, have given him witness the art galleries, seafood restaurants, commercial galleries and theaters. The actor's angry face Clint Eastwood, neighbor who was mayor of Carmel, looks out the window of a shop. Monterey is now a prime tourist destination and Cannery Row is one of its main attractions. But their appearance, although rejuvenated, still evokes an aura of the "golden age of the sardine" and some buildings from this time are still.
The body asked me to take a walk in search of that "aura of decadence" in Cannery Row is plunged when the canning industry came to pique
Leaving behind us walked around Cannery Row Fisherman´s Wharf, that once housed one of the most voluminous fishing fleets of the United States. The piers, with viewpoints that seem suspended above the blue Pacific, familiar, Maybe because we've seen in dozens of movies. There are around for a Bubba Gump that seems a must for fans Forrest Gump. I, I have not even seen the movie, I passed.
These springs, built by inmates in the mid-nineteenth century, Sea Lions claim their share of fish to tourists as pets bad accustomed. The cries of the seagulls accompany our steps. In an old jetty, on a concrete block, dozens of black birds like statues seem to expect a Hitchock Anonymity of the Rescue.
On a concrete slab, dozens of black birds such as statues seem to expect to rescue them Hitchock anonymity
And San Carlos Beach, one of the most popular beaches of Monterey, we pause to account for the sandwiches we've plundered, sighted, in the hotel's breakfast. At three p.m., the bus resumed its journey towards Carmel. Touch retrace our steps toward Cannery Row, sardines paradise that inspired Steinbeck. This Sardinas ira.
