- The musician Will Oldham, who began his career under the name Palace Flophouse, which was later changed to Palace and Palace Brothers, got the inspiration for his early monikers by reading Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday.
- The titles of the 1950 Tweety Bird cartoon Canary Row and the 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoon short Cannery Rodent are plays on words of this book's name.
- In the South Park episode, "Do the Handicapped Go to Hell?", the two-year-old Ike Broflovski is reading Cannery Row with his parents, who then compliment him on reading two of Steinbeck's books in one day.
- On November 5, 2019, the BBC News listed Cannery Row on its list of the 100 most influential novels.[11]
- The Bob Dylan song "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" contains the line: "With your sheet-metal memory of Cannery Row".[12]
- Cannery Row is mentioned in the 2010 Louis Sachar novel The Cardturner.[13]
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