Among the personal items in the expanded exhibit are combat gear donated by local veterans as well as the story of Private James Treadway. Treadway was an artist and paramarine scout who sketched terrain before a marine landing. Reproductions of his illustrations are on display. The renovation is the first phase of work on this exhibit. Over the next two years, an interactive video program will be added followed by the installation of a working submarine periscope that will allow visitors to view the Bay.
Group tours are available.
For more information call 372-2608. This exhibit is sponsored by The Sardine Factory. Besides offering a view into a little documented time on the Row, part of the exhibit invites the public to help us identify the people in these pictures. Photographer Robert Lewis, who came to Monterey in 1957, worked odd jobs while trying to make a living as a freelance photographer. For the last year and a half, Monterey History and Art Association, the parent organization of the Maritime Museum, as been working with the Cannery Row Foundation on the selection, preparation and exhibition of these photographs.