![]() ![]() ![]() Here, from the 1950s, is Lobster Shore Dinner No. Photos of the workers, patrons and menus (with their heartrending prices!) cannot fail to tickle one’s fascination. The word irresistible well captures the quality of this book and books of its sort, with their collections of photos and postcards of rustic places and popular attractions that spark an emotion- al kinship in so many. ![]() Maybe tonight! Iggy’s beckons at Oakland Beach and McCormick & Schmick’s has fine hefty ones at the Biltmore, not to mention Hem- enways – though the latter two are hardly to be placed in the clamshack category! Not necessarily for clamcakes but for stuffies (with the taste of Tonia’s still lingering). Their discussion, garnished with stuffies cooked up by the library’s director of community programming, Louise Moulton, made me want to go out and visit a clam shack for dinner. We went to the Providence Public Library on Tuesday evening to hear the two of them discuss their book. My wife’s longtime friend Christopher Scott Martin (that’s three first names!) is the author, with David Norton Stone, of Rhode Island Clam Shacks, pub- lished in April under the Images of America imprint of Arcadia Publishing. (from cover of “Rhode Island Clam Shacks.” (Rhode Island Archives) “Dave’s Restaurant,” in Island Park, Portsmouth, near Stone Bridge, circa 1950. ![]()
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