CONGRATULATIONS! Friends of Price House

Pismo Beach Clam Festival: Pismo Beach, known for its clam chowder-serving cafes, is a tasty destination as beaches go. For seven decades the Central Coast city has celebrated clams with a festival at the beach, featuring a parade, a clam digging contest, and a clam chowder cook-off,  all happening in a beautiful ocean setting.

In 2021, for the 75^th Annual Clam Festival Parade, the Friends of Price House won Best Club/Organization for their entry. One of the board members drove the antique buggy that is part of the Price Historical Park.  When John Price could no longer ride his beloved gray horses, he rode in a buggy pulled by two of his gray horses, wearing his gray suit and gray top hat.

Pismo clams are an iconic species of the California coast, found from Monterey Bay, California to Baja California, Mexico. In California, they are often most abundant on Pismo Beach. Clams were harvested in the millions on Pismo Beach and supported important commercial and recreational fisheries for decades. While the commercial fishery closed in 1947, the recreational fishery remained active for nearly another half-century. Pismo clam populations on the Central Coast declined in the 1980s and a legal-sized Pismo clam (4.5”) has not been found on Pismo Beach since 1993.