Inside PBL: From "Doc Ricketts Lab" to Monterey Jazz Festival

Pacific Biological Laboratories on Monterey's Cannery Row has a unique and interesting history. It was once home to Ed Ricketts and his Pacific Biological Laboratories. John Steinbeck's character "Doc" in "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday" was said to be based on Ricketts. In the novels, he lived and worked in "Doc's Lab."
Later, it was a meeting room for a group that created the historic Monterey Jazz Festival, the longest running jazz festival in the world.