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Date Information
1954
Box Number
10
Item Number
11
Photo Location
Outside of House
Description
View of stairs to beach from edge of backyard; camera facing north. In his 1954 trial testimony, Bay Village Police Officer Fred Drenkhan described the steps to the beach: "'There are 52 steps... The first 10 steps are concrete steps with a concrete landing, and then a wooden landing, and the next set is approximately 11 steps with a landing, they are wooden steps, then four steps and a landing, and another set of 11 steps. They have wooden railings all the way on down. You then enter onto a patio or a porch surrounding the beach house. To the east side of the beach house on the patio, you go on down to the beach."
Keywords
Sheppard home, stairs to beach, beach, green bag, bath house, Lake Erie
