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| Perry's Fish House South Burlington, VT |
Giant Lobster [gone] The Office Hazlet, NJ |
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Perry's Fish House is still there but the giant crab is not (see link). "Louie" was inflatable and was put on the roof during the annual crab festival in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, local officials decided he violated the sign laws.
The Office had an inflatable lobster on its roof. He was removed during the winter. He was there in 2003 when this photo was taken. However, by 2008, the restaurant and lobster were gone. I saw another lobster at another restaurant in NJ but not from the same chain. So maybe these inflatable lobsters are becoming a common. |
| Sole Proprietor Worcester, MA |
Giant Crab Seafood Restaurant North Myrtle Beach, SC |
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The Sole Proprietor restaurant features a giant inflatable crab on its roof. Buster the Crab measures 75' from claw to claw. For more, see their website.
The Giant Crab Seafood Restaurant was built in 2003. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. |
| Nick's Restaurant West Swanzey, NH |
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| Nick's Restaurant features another giant inflatable crab on its roof. This crab and the one at Sole Proprietor shown above might be from the same manufacturer. |
| Giant Crab Tybee Island, GA |
Giant Crab Crisfield, MD |
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The Tybee Island Crab is installed at the Crab Shack. The restaurant opened in 1987 on the site of a former fishing camp. For more, see their website.
The Crisfield Crab is rather flat but I'll include it anyway. It stands in front of Crisfield High School. The crab is the school's mascot and their teams are known as the Crisfield Crabbers. |
| Side Street Seafood Crisfield, MD |
Hadfield's Seafood Wilmington, DE |
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Side Street Seafood is a market and restaurant which specializes in crabs from the Chesapeake Bay.
Hadfield's Seafood features a giant rooftop crab. |
| Blue Claw Crab Galveston, TX |
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| The Blue Claw Crab is on the roof of Gaido's Seafood Restaurant. He has been here since at least the 1960s. For more, see this website. |
| Crab Indian Rocks Beach, FL |
Crab San Francisco, CA |
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The Indian Rocks Beach Crab is located on the roof of Crabby Bill's Seafood restaurant.
This San Francisco Crab sculpture is installed at the foot of Pier 39. Does anyone know who created it and how long it has been here? For more, see this website. |
| Horseshoe Crab Blanchester, OH |
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| This Horseshoe Crab, aka Crabby, is 28 feet wide and 68 feet long. It was originally commissioned for the Baltimore Maritime Museum in Baltimore, MD. The museum was never built and the sculpture was purchased by the Creation Museum in Hebron, KY. In 2006, the Crab was donated to the Freedom Worship Baptist Church in Blanchester which installed it here in a Biblical scripture garden. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. |
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