Pacific Biological Laboratories | |
 The Pacific Biological Laboratories of Ed Ricketts, on Cannery Row, Monterey, California.
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  Location in the Monterey Peninsula | |
| Location | 800 Cannery Row, Monterey, California |
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| Coordinates | 36°37′1″N 121°53′59″W / 36.61694°N 121.89972°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1937 |
| Architect | Oneweiler |
| NRHP reference No. | 94001498 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 29, 1994 |
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.
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.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ McElrath, Joseph R.; Crisler, Jesse S.; Shillinglaw, Susan (1996). Pacific Grove. Cambridge University. p. 372. ISBN 0-521-41038-X.