Nel Lally has shucked approximately 1.4 million clams and oysters at the Harvey Cedars Clam Bar in Beach Haven since it opened Memorial Day 1992. The traditional shore-style eatery is closing forever this Labor Day weekend 2021.
But it’s not the number of shellfish she has wrestled onto plates, the freshness of the food or the classic design of the wraparound bar that legions of loyal customers will miss the most. It’s Nel herself who kept them coming back year after year.
The Clam Bar in Beach Haven started as a spinoff of Harvey Cedars Shellfish Co.
Subscribe to keep reading
This story is from our archive. Get your SandPaper Annual Pass for access to our digital archive, plus everything else a pass includes. Details below.
Annual Pass — $18 Details
365-day access to:
- The complete SandPaper digital archive (stories date back to 2012).
- Full photo galleries from our photographers.
- The entire catalog of SandPaper games, puzzles and quizzes.
How it works
- Enter your email below and click to pay the one-time $18. Card details are entered on Stripe’s secure page.
- You’re in straight away — no password to create, and nothing to set up or manage.
- You stay signed in. If you’re ever signed out, or you read on a new phone or computer, we’ll email you a code to get you back in.
- Never auto-renews. Your pass is good for one year. We will email you when it expires so you can renew if you’d like.
See our site policies for more information.
Already a subscriber? We’ll email a code to get you back in.
