The Clambake

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  • The "Supper Club" gathers for a backyard clambake in the late 1940s.  

  • Part of the crowd at the cottage on Woodstock Avenue in Avon Lake at a 1940 clam bake.

  • Lake Road neighbors gather for a 1946 clambake in the backyard at 31011 Lake Road. The neighbors are members of the Kittenger, Wolf, Hook, Wieland and Inwood families. 

  • Barb and Gloria eating corn at Dick Walker's farewell clambake in 1945. Dick was headed overseas in WWII.

  • Barb at the 1945 clambake.

  • The Wearever aluminum pitcher for basting and two ironstone butter dishes today. Even back then, the dishes said China 3 11 26 on the bottom. 

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