Area Lakes Booming on Final Weekend for Summer Fun

Despite May storm damage, area lakes have been thriving since the warm weather rolled in, especially on the last weekend for summer fun. One restaurant on Lake Thunderbird in Norman was booming this Labor Day weekend.

Sunday, September 5th 2010, 5:16 pm

By: News 9


By Jacqueline Sit, NEWS 9

NORMAN, Oklahoma -- Despite May storm damage, area lakes have been thriving since the warm weather rolled in, especially on the last weekend for summer fun.

Clear Bay Cafe was packed with hundreds of customers as visitors spent Labor Day weekend at Lake Thunderbird.

"Business is great and we're planning to expand next season," said Nolan Moskowitz, owner of Clear Bay Cafe.

The restaurant served nearly 500 customers on Sunday.

"With a team of only seven people at work, the crowd is keeping us pretty busy. And the menu is so varied that it's not easy," Nolan Moskowitz said.

It's been a family run business for 15 years.

"We get people whose friends brought their friends, who's brought their friends in over the last 10 years and we've been open for 15 and our business just kept getting better, better and better," said Barry Moskowitz, Nolan's father.

Even though tornado damage in May prompted officials to close the lake, the restaurant kept it's doors open to the marina and several campgrounds.

The restaurant's still thriving from receptions and private parties on the lake side property since the storm.

"It hurt us when the weather turned bad, but it hurt everybody. But even through that, we did some business as soon as people figured we didn't blow away. God's good and Norman has people that want to go out, even now when the economy is bad, people want to go out," said restaurant owner Barry Moskowitz.

 

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