Manufacturer: Iroquois China
Name of user: Anchor Room – Eastwood, N.Y.
Pattern name: Chesapeake
Date of plate: 1946

Chesapeake pattern, found in a 1949 Iroquois catalogue

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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."

There are a lot of restaurants and bars with the Anchor Room name, but an online seller specified that this pattern 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. But it was the addition of the matchbook with its left-leaning anchor and fish, shown above, that closely mirrors the china and with our other info definitively ties it to Eastwood.

Sources:
Syracuse Herald-Journal
Syracuse Post-Standard

Contributors:
Carol Cardona: creamer photos
Patrick Carie: ID and matchbook photo
Patti Scanlon: street photo of Anchor Room