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Photo Gallery: Newport’s Crab Cooker moves out for rebuild

Jimmy Wasko and his father, Jim, pose under a preserved great white shark at the Crab Cooker, their Newport Beach restaurant that will be torn down and rebuilt. The shark was caught in Newport in 1960, according to the sign dangling above it.

Jimmy Wasko and his father, Jim, pose under a preserved great white shark at the Crab Cooker, their Newport Beach restaurant that will be torn down and rebuilt. The shark was caught in Newport in 1960, according to the sign dangling above it.

  (Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)

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The owner of the Crab Cooker in Newport Beach closed its doors in preparation to tear down the restaurant and rebuild it after it was damaged during construction of the condominiums next door.

  (Scott Smeltzer / Staff Photographer)

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