Time models
This model of Cannery Row California in 1943-1946 was build by Bill Johnk. You find more images at The Cannery Row Foundation Web Site. Most of John Seinbeck’s 1945 novel, “Cannery Row” happens in this model of old Ocean View Avenue. There is a striking interrelation in man’s effort to conserve and lock out time: innovations in the industrial canning technology made canned food more sustainable and tasty, life on Ocean View Avenue in the early 40′s was lifted up to immortality by Steinbeck’s book…
early 60′s documentary photography gives us detailed information on the ruinous buildings and leftovers from the historical sardine industry. And since 1983 The Cannery Row Foundation, celebrating this salty mixture of historical facts, literature, sociological and ecological lessons of “America’s Most Famous Street”
CRF Board Director of Education, Art Ring; (then) Vice-President, Michael Hemp; and Ed. Ricketts, Jr.—at the Oakland Museum of California on January 10th 2005 standing behind the Row model.
