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The Bear Flag Restaurant

Cannery Row's local whorehouse with a confusing name (no sandwiches served), this is located across the lot from Lee Chong's grocery.

Cannery Row

The primary setting for the novel is a seaside strip of Monterey, California, that consists of corrugated iron sardine canneries, honkytonks, restaurants, whorehouses, crowded groceries, laboratories, flophouses, chipped pavement, weedy lots, and junk heaps.

Carmel Valley

A secondary locale for the novel and an excellent place for catching animals for Doc.

The Great Tide Pool

Doc's favorite area for collecting marine animals located on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula. It is a wave-churned basin at high tide and a clear battleground for survival at low tide.

Hediondo Cannery

One of the major sardine-preparation facilities in Cannery Row, it is the only one developed to any extent. It appears to be constantly looking for workers, and after the disastrous party in...

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