Arlene Vidor

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Monterey Workers Shacks

The few tiny shacks surviving on the Monterey waterfront are what remains of hundreds of wooden shanties that housed cannery workers in the first part of the 20th century.  They came from everywhere in the world to work in the canneries; many were Japanese or Filipino.

The row of cabins is now a tourist attraction.  They are particularly ghostly in the dark.  What would it have been like to live in those hovels and face work in the canneries day in and day out?

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