Gorgeous buy red seaglass pendant. With mermaids tail pinch bale

My Homeless story.
My John Steinbeck and Doc Ricketts era Connection. In 2013 I was homeless on McAbee beach on Historical Cannery Row in Monterey, California and became fascinated with Sea glass. Having a lot of time on my hands, I started finding beautiful pieces of these rare, gems of the Sea. I then started hoarding things like surf tumbled Sea glass, pottery and abalone shells. I thought that it would be great to be able to make jewelry out of it but I didn't know how.
One day I met a guy that taught me how to do wire wraps, a technique for using wire to secure stones. After some time, and a lot of practice, I perfected my newfound craft. One day i met an awesome lady at a local church that offered me her garage for shelter. Now i had somewhere to make my jewelry. I started creating jewelry pieces full time and a year later I moved into the house and still had the garage. Now my Etsy is doing fantastic. Montereyroseman @Etsy. Homeless no more.
A little history on Sea glass…where it came from and where it was found. Rare Sea glass from McAbee beach on historical Cannery Row.....Monterey, California…
As early as the 18th century, Portuguese whalers set out from McAbee beach. In 1907, the Chinese leased the beach after a mysterious fire destroyed their makeshift wharf and shantytown, next to Old Wharf 1. Later, that year Carmel's city council voted to truck their garbage over to dump on McAbee beach. Keeping their beachs pristine. Much later the canneries had came and went. By the 60s, most of the canneries had been abandoned and in ruins, but the tide still came in and out tumbling all the garbage and glass bottles and making some the of the best quality Sea glass ever.
It takes 50 to 70 years to make a perfect jewelry quality piece. Over time the piece could break in half and start the process all over again. Most of the best of my collection have probably tumbled for 100+ years. buy That's over 70,000 tide changes.

For quite a few years, John Steinbeck and Doc Ricketts enjoyed a few beers together at Doc's Office and Lab on Cannery Row…
In 1923 Doc Ricketts set up his lab on Cannery Row. Almost every day that he was at his lab, he walked over to the Chinaman's grocery store across the street and would purchase a few quarts of beer. Also in 1923, John Steinbeck signed up for a marine biology course at Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove. Meeting Doc Ricketts, as well as their mutual interest in marine biology, helped spark a deep friendship between the two. They hit it off immediately and became close friends. Steinbeck published his novel CANNERY ROW in 1945. The later part of the decade, Steinbeck and his wife moved to Los Gatos California but frequently visited Monterey and were hanging out with New York's Elite mostly.

When John Steinbeck and Doc got together they had a few quarts of beer. The men both liked their beer for 25 years on the row until Doc's death in 1948. I can estimate at least 40,000 + quart containers + all the refuse from the lab was thrown thru his trap door into the bay. So there's an excellent chance that my Amber Sea glass Jewelry or that era glass being made from Doc Ricketts, John Steinbeck or Mack and the boys (the characters from Steinbeck's novel CANNERY ROW) quarts of beer. That was most of the 20's and 30's that Steinbeck lived in Pacific Grove.
I have Prohibition glass, Chromium glass, Cadmium glass, Erbium glass, and Uranium glass. The list goes on.
All of my Sea glass that I have collected, has been picked up either under his trap door, which is now covered with a metal culvert, or within 150 feet of it. McAbee beach is a small cove where anything that's thrown out just comes right back onto the beach. Lighter stuff, like most garbage, just went to the south and within a week was on Del Monte Beach. Three weeks later it would accumulate at the site of the dump in Sand City. In Sand City they built a massive wall of concrete right at the high tide mark. It's at least 100+ yards long and 50 feet high. Then they took all the tumbled gravel with Sea glass in it from the minus low tide in front of the wall and back filled a couple football field sized lots, 50 to 150 feet deep. It stretches all the way up to the freeway and past the recreation trail, which is now the back of the former Orchard Supply Hardware Store (closed now). To this day, anywhere you look behind the wall, there are millions of pieces of un-finished Sea glass, with the occasional jewelry quality piece unearthed from somebody's foot print. I have friends that have dug down 20+ feet and have unearthed some beautiful pieces. How's that for our local history? Montereyroseman.com

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