'Capt. Jack's Wharf is located in the west end of Provincetown and was an old fishing wharf owned by Jackson Williams. Many years ago fishing boats tied up to the wharf to unload their catch and mend their nets in any one of the 16 sheds on the wharf. In the mid-1930s Dr. Daniel Hiebert purchased the wharf and converted the sheds into 16 small rental units. Over the years that followed many famous people and not-so-famous people came to stay in these 'sheds' on the water. Tennessee Williams spent several months there, Barbara Streisand and Elliott Gould, Lynn Redgrave, to name a few artists and writers who came as young people and left with great recognition in their field. It was a very friendly place to spend a vacation and most people returned each season for over 40 years. Every Friday evening over the season there was a wonderful 'pot luck' supper held on the wharf and many great recipes emerged in Capt. Jack's cookbook from these affairs. The wharf saw many nor'easter storms and hurricanes and the 'shed' units still stand and look as they did in 1930. I spent about 35 years, some of the happiest years of my life, as bookkeeper at C.J.W.'
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