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Cannery Row is one of America's top visitor destinations, attracting approximately four million people each year. Visitors to Cannery Row can soak up the past, enjoy the present, and marvel at how the former clanking, smelly, industrial street has been transformed into one of the world's most beautiful waterfront destinations. John Steinbeck's Cannery Row spotlights the legendary lane during its industrial heyday, but the street's true story begins long before canneries lined the former Ocean View Avenue. From Native American, Asian and European settlement, through the boom and bust of the whaling and sardine industries, to structural and economic despair followed by restoration and re-development, the tale of Cannery Row – so renamed by Monterey officials 13 years after the release of Steinbeck's novel – continues to fascinate guests. Here, past and present alike influence the architecture, cuisine and attractions as Cannery Row continues to celebrate the unshakable spirit on which it was founded.
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