Inside PBL: From "Doc Ricketts Lab" to Monterey Jazz Festival
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2013
- Pacific Biological Laboratories on Monterey's Cannery Row has a unique and interesting history. It was once home to Ed Ricketts and his Pacific Biological Laboratories. John Steinbeck's character "Doc" in "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday" was said to be based on Ricketts. In the novels, he lived and worked in "Doc's Lab."
Later, it was a meeting room for a group that created the historic Monterey Jazz Festival, the longest running jazz festival in the world.
I remember as a young Marine while attending the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio, walking along the deserted Cannery Row on a foggy, dark night. This was before there was the aquarium, and there were very few businesses back then. The dark windows of abandoned canneries, the smell of the bay, and the ghost of past memories drifiting along in the lonely fog..... Imagining the hundreds of workers coming and going from their shifts at the canneries when they ran twenty four hours a day. The raucous laughter and cigarette smoke drifting from the bars.... The different dialects of foriegn workers all mixing together with the cannery equipment to form a cacophony of industry.... Now, the tourist walk the streets, oblivious to the history of the area and instead focusing on the here and now.... Not noticing the almost invisible ghost of Ed Ricketts as he still prowls amongst the rocks of the tidal zone....searching for marine specimens..... Those days may have passed, but the memories...dusty and covered in cobwebs, continue to live on in the few oldtimers who still cling to days gone by..... fading, but never, hopefully, forgotten.
I walked cannery row a while back, oblivious to the history of the area and instead focusing on the here and now. The smell isn't ripe with sardines, but delicate with the perfumes of tourists. A whiff of some of the more expensive scents might have cost them more than I earn in a day. There are artist's galleries (which Henri would never be seen in), but they did never change their prices. They demanded the same price in recession or boom, from local or tourist. Lee Chong would have smiled. I once bought a mug from a sculptor whose art, while well spoken of, seemed to be less profitable than coffee mugs. One night I drank late with a woman, who was as ignorant as I was about the aquarium. In the morning I scolded her sharply for attempting to hug an elephant seal on the beach. "Men just don't understand how a woman feels" she said. I rubbed her back for a long time before she went to sleep that night.
Nice comment.
By the way thank you this is so great wow made my entire year,,
Not to mention the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival which introduced Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin to the mainstream rock world.
Love it.
My Ancestor.. Ricketts from Arkansas.
The narrator is wrong. The Newport Jazz Festival is older than the Monterey Jazz Festival by four years.
did you mention "The Sea of Cortez?"
The grand old Pacific Capitol, I walked last year from pismo to San Francisco, doc ing the ecolacical disaster the might blue lady is suffering ,, Ed Ricketts, and John , the last great sweet scientists,, the statue made me very emotional,, the old plaque under the old tree turning it over to Mexico, then the grand old tariffs house,, I will write a sequel to the truth of the historic Grand old Capitol Monterey is still the masterpiece of our eccolagy in fatal straits,,
I have been looking for my Ed Ricketts science Fukushima happened , no where to be found,, Ed where have all the sardines gone, Ed they are in a can,, the statue is grand, now all the world like canary row was in slaved in a can called cancer
Kevin d. Blanch by the sea
It had to be so sad to watch mankind ruin ecosystems doc was powerless to stop the distruction .
Doc Ricketts always looked like some kind of time traveller...out of sync but not
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