When Long Beach's annual Clam Festival was mothballed around 2000, so was the World's Largest Spitting Clam. Made of driftwood, standing about five feet tall, it was topped by a white spout that would shoot water several feet high. In 2013 the Festival was revived. A year later, on April 19, 2014, the mayor of Long Beach cut a ribbon and the newly recommissioned Clam made its first spit. The improved clam not only spits for free on the hour, it also spits on demand for anyone who drops a quarter into an adjacent coin slot.
