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Pacific Biological Laboratories
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Pacific Biological Laboratories, abbreviated PBL, was a biological supply house that sold preserved animals and prepared specimen microscope slides, many of which were of maritime aquatic species, to schools, museums, and research institutions. It was located in a building on what is now Monterey's Cannery Row on Monterey Bay in Monterey County, California.
Pacific Biological Laboratories | |
![]() The Pacific Biological Laboratories of Ed Ricketts, on Cannery Row, Monterey, California.
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Location | 800 Cannery Row, Monterey, California |
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Coordinates | 36°37′1″N 121°53′59″W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1937 |
Architect | Oneweiler |
NRHP reference No. | 94001498 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 29, 1994 |
The building, activities, and business were fictionalized as "Western Biological Laboratory" by John Steinbeck in his novel Cannery Row, as was a character based on one of its founders, Ed Ricketts.[2] After a 1936 fire Steinbeck invested in the laboratory and owned half its stock.