Cannery Row chapters 1 to 16

In the beginning of the book: Cannery Row, Lee Chong was introduced as a grocery store owner. He was tough but soft hearted. Horace Abbeville owed money to him, signed over a fish storage
shed to Lee for payment owed, went home and commited suiside. Mack and his unemployed friends moved in the shed for return of the protection given to Lee Chong's store, because Lee knew no money would ever be seen for rent. Mack and his gang furnited the place and made it home. Most of the furnitings were stolen, painted to disguise the original look, and Mack even chalked out places for the gang to sleep in, designated places that is. Doc, a Western Biology Laboratory owner was a nice guy, so Mack and his gang decide to throw a party for him. It goes terribly wrong. Dora, another character, owns the Bear Flag Restraunt and also runs a whorehouse with 12 girls- very respected, a greek cook, and a bouncer, Alfred. That is after William, the old bouncer, was rejected in joining Macks gang, seen Eva, and commited suiside also. Every day an old chinamen walks to the sea, Andy, a young 10 year old boy from Salinas, taunted him once and never did again. Gay, beaten by his wife moved into the Palace Flophouse (the fish shed of Horace's). Even though he is afraid of water, Henry had been building a boat for 7 years already. Mr. and Mrs. Malloy moved to the boiler in 1935 and 2 years later rented out the large pipes as sleeping quarters. Mack talks about Phyllis Mae's infection from a drunks tooth she knocked out and was enbedded in her fist,which went all the way to her elbow. He also wants to help doc out by getting frogs for him.Frankie befriends doc at the lab, and loves him better than his own mother and uncles at home. Gay gets to work on a model t and eddie and jones air up the tires. Gay takes it to Caramel Hill and it dies on him. Brucia picks him up, celebrates Gays birthday, then Gay gets arrested and 180 days later returns home. Mr. Carriaga sees a boy run from Alverado street with a liver in his hand, which come from the gulge
where a french doctor discards parts of a body from Josh Billings, a writer who was staying at the Del Monte Hotel before he died. Mack discuss what has happened to Gay, Moran, and Mckinley and decide married men can't be trusted. The captain , which owned the land that Mack and his gang were eating on, wanted them off his land. Mack offered to fix his dogs wound from a tick bite, and suggested that they hunt at his frog pond. Two soldiers and two girls wonder into cannery row. Mack medicated Nola, the captains dog wound, and was offered the pick of the litter of hers. They begin to drink corn liquor and hunt frogs, drink some more, and finally after getting so drunk, set the curtains on fire, and left the captain on the floor past out.
Dora is short 3 girls and some more girls come to fill in,the flu starts spreading, and Doc helps out everywhere and Doras' girls also help out where ever possible.