• With the exception of the 1920 deed, J. Rodriguez et al to Spallino, Lopez's marital status is unstated. . . June 21,1928, a month prior to the close of escrow of Vincent Rodriguez to Ed Ricketts Joseph Rodriguez recorded an affidavit.33 Surely the intent was to stop the sale. The affidavit told of the shenanigans of his partners. The document was flawed. The chain of title was in error. Joseph's legal advisor confused the legal description of 740 Ocean View with that of the home on Foam Street Joseph and Rita purchased back in 1918. The customary check of the record at the time of recording the sale would not have readily led to the affidavit. And stopped the sale. And that's the story of La Esperanza. "The Hope." . . The good thing is that it happened. If it weren't for the troubled partnership and the shenanigans, if La Esperanza had been successful, if Edward Flanders Ricketts had not found the little house squeezed among the long row of canneries - a little house with cement tanks in place and on the very edge of Monterey Bay - would the characters, the colorful businesses, the stories of Cannery Row have made their way to Steinbeck's pencil? Stories and characters that, as it turned out, would outlive the fishing villages, McAbee's tourist hopes, and the canneries that are no more...34 Would that section of Cannery Row be described as the "Literary Core National Register Historic District" by today's historians.35 Would Cannery Row have become today's tourist magnet? POSTSCRIPT There were two Ocean Avenues in early Monterey - confusing to the researcher and possibly early residents as well. Monterey's cannery-filled Ocean Avenue became Ocean View Avenue sometime between 1918 and 1926.36 In 1958 the name was changed to Cannery Row.37 740 Ocean View is known today as 800 Cannery Row, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is owned by the City of Monterey. And that's another story. . 6 . , OCR Text: • With the exception of the 1920 deed, J. Rodriguez et al to Spallino, Lopez's marital status is unstated. . . June 21,1928, a month prior to the close of escrow of Vincent Rodriguez to Ed Ricketts Joseph Rodriguez recorded an affidavit.33 Surely the intent was to stop the sale. The affidavit told of the shenanigans of his partners. The document was flawed. The chain of title was in error. Joseph's legal advisor confused the legal description of 740 Ocean View with that of the home on Foam Street Joseph and Rita purchased back in 1918. The customary check of the record at the time of recording the sale would not have readily led to the affidavit. And stopped the sale. And that's the story of La Esperanza. "The Hope." . . The good thing is that it happened. If it weren't for the troubled partnership and the shenanigans, if La Esperanza had been successful, if Edward Flanders Ricketts had not found the little house squeezed among the long row of canneries - a little house with cement tanks in place and on the very edge of Monterey Bay - would the characters, the colorful businesses, the stories of Cannery Row have made their way to Steinbeck's pencil? Stories and characters that, as it turned out, would outlive the fishing villages, McAbee's tourist hopes, and the canneries that are no more...34 Would that section of Cannery Row be described as the "Literary Core National Register Historic District" by today's historians.35 Would Cannery Row have become today's tourist magnet? POSTSCRIPT There were two Ocean Avenues in early Monterey - confusing to the researcher and possibly early residents as well. Monterey's cannery-filled Ocean Avenue became Ocean View Avenue sometime between 1918 and 1926.36 In 1958 the name was changed to Cannery Row.37 740 Ocean View is known today as 800 Cannery Row, is on the National Register of Historic Places, and is owned by the City of Monterey. And that's another story. . 6 . , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,Q through R File names,Rodrigues,RODRIGUES_006.pdf,RODRIGUES_006.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: RODRIGUES_006.PDF, RODRIGUES_006.pdf 1 Page 1