100 Years in 100 Days: Clark's Shakertown Restaurant on Van Aken Boulevard
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Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights.
When researching photos for this series, Patch comes across beautiful images like this postcard of Clark's Shakertown on Van Aken Boulevard. But research turns up very little information.
That's why we're asking you to tell us about Clark's Shakertown at 2782 Van Aken Boulevard. According to the caption, the restaurant was one of 14 Clark's located in Cleveland, Akron and Erie. The original restaurant opened in 1896 on the former Bond Street in downtown Cleveland, according to the website Teaching and Learning Cleveland
If you can fill the gaps about this location or Clark's restaurants and their history, please post in the comments.
You can join our celebration of Shaker Heights history. Share your memories in the comments. Or upload your photos and we'll feature them in this scrapbook. Follow #ShakerCentennial on Twitter.
Rob Wolf
10:36 pm on Wednesday, July 25, 2012
I used to go to Clarks at Shaker Square on Satuydays for lunch with the family. I always got the hot chicken slices plate with mashed potatoes and yellow(chicken) gravy. Mmmm good. they had a treasure chest at the frint of the restaurant and when the kids finished eating you could walk up to the chest and grab a gift from it. It wa sloaded with cheap little prizes maybe a small upgrade of what you got out of a Cracker Jack box. the parking lot next door had a flat first level then ramped upt o a second level and beyond.If filled there was a lot across the street.
Judith Stern Waxman
10:52 pm on Monday, July 30, 2012
The sauerkraut balls were amazing. THe entire experience was sensational....the treasure chest was unquestionably the most memorable experience for all kids. There was a bar called Punch and Judy next door I recall...just steps from Peck and Peck a very fine women's clothier and of course, Hough Bakery. Clark's had a location by Heights High School, as well as one in the Hanna Building, Judy Stern Waxman.