Manufacturer: Iroquois China
Name of user: Anchor Room – Eastwood, N.Y.
Pattern name: Chesapeake
Date of plate: 1946
Notes: The Anchor Room, located at 2531 James Street at Lillian in Eastwood, N.Y., offered "Fine Dining in the Heart of Eastwood" that included weekday lunches and Friday and Saturday night dinners – as well a bar that served as a popular local meeting place.
First newspaper mentions for it were found in 1946 (that included help-wanted ads and Anchor Room team bowling scores), and 1946 was also the year that topmarked Anchor Room plates were made.
In 1994, the Syracuse Herald-Journal reported numerous state and county health code violations and noted that as of May that year, the Anchor Room's permit had not been renewed. On Dec. 19, 1994, the Post-Standard ran ads for the restaurant's equipment auction, including everything from coolers to Fryolators to tables, chairs, bar stools, beer advertising items as well as "some dishes."
Nothing has been found so far that directly ties this china with the left leaning pink/red anchor and deep green rope border to this Anchor Room (and it was a popular restaurant name), but an online seller had specified that it came from the Eastwood location; Eastwood is less than three miles from Syracuse, where Iroquois China was located; and the creamer shown above was purchased from a seller located less than 10 miles from Eastwood.
We feel confident, therefore, that it is quite likely that the Anchor Room's china was used at the Eastwood location and we post this entry with the hope that in the future more evidence will be found linking the two.
Sources:
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Syracuse Post-Standard
Contributors:
Carol Cardona: creamer photos
Patti Scanlon: street photo of Anchor Room