How to read old Appleworks documents

Greetings,
I am a former Apple Works user (and Claris works before that). I have dozens of documents that were created in the "drawing" department of AW which I have discovered to my horror can not be read by Pages. Seems like the old AW text documents convert just fine. Anybody out there encounter this? Any workarounds?
Thanks,
Dave B

Yes, there is a work around. A little search would have pointed you to this thread among others
Convert AppleWorks 6 Draw files to open and edit in Pages.
Happy converting!

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