Bo, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> . At the moment I > have no map or internet connection to see where Santa Cruz is > located, Then how are you reading this? :-) > but the California coast is strewn with "santa"s and "san"s. I > seem to remember that you recently spoke about Monterey, isn't that > Salinas and Steinbeck "territory"? Yup. When I was in the 5th grade, I had a great teacher who took me once to Cannery Row in Monterey, where we purchased some lab glass for making our own test tubes. That's right, a fifth grade teacher turning his students loose with propane and hot glass. Them were the good ole days. It was also previous to Cannery Row being turned into a touristy trap of t-shirt vendors and ice cream bars, but was a derelict skid row type place. Anyway, the place we bought the glass tubes, I realized many years later was the same place that Steinbeck had worked at when he wrote about Cannery Row and where his friend Ed Ricketts worked. In later years I was grateful to my teacher, for exposing me to the literary backbones of such an interesting novel. I also visited with some distant relatives working at China Lake about that time (1970). I remember vividly a girl about my age who I got a crush on, and my first and only tastes of peanut butter pizza. Thanks for sharing some real memories with me Bo, John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
