However, many recent visitors find the area overpriced and too touristy, noting that you have to squint in order to detect the charms that John Steinbeck details in his 1945 novel "Cannery Row." ...

Once the center of California's sardine-packing industry, Monterey is more likely to be recognized as the setting in John Steinbeck's "Cannery Row," Pixar's "Finding Dory" or the HBO miniseries ...

John Steinbeck, shown here in 1960 ... Washington is on display at the Cannery Row Symposium in Monterey on Saturday February. David Royal - Monterey Herald John and Andy Gregg purchased The ...