Monterey History

Aug. 19, 2013

How Skyline Forest Grew: Monterey’s Expansion into the Wooded Ridgeline

Originally published August 19, 2013; substantially updated September 2026.

From downtown Monterey, the wooded ridge above the city can look as though it has always been there untouched.

It hasn't.

Hidden among the Monterey pines and coast live oaks is one of the city's most interesting examples …

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May 29, 2013

Ed Ricketts, Pacific Biological Laboratories & the Real “Doc” of Cannery Row

Cannery Row, Monterey, CA

Originally published May 29, 2013; substantially updated September 2026.

Thousands of people walk past 800 Cannery Row every year without realizing that one of the most important buildings in Monterey's scientific and literary history is sitting almost in plain sight.

It is not one of Cannery Row's …

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