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Wing Chong Building
Cannery Row Photo Tour

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The former owner didn't his money from the store. Find out how he got it.

Wing Chong Building

©2007 Betsy Malloy Photography. Licensed to About.com
Wing Chong Building
835 Cannery Row

The market that was once here figured in Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but the its owner made much of his fortune by drying and selling squid. The La Ida Cafe in the building next door was where Steinbeck's Eddie the part-time bar tender poured leftover drinks into a jug for Mack and the boys.

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