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The Evangelist of Golf / George Bahto
Phil Carlucci:
--- Quote from: Michael Chadwick on December 18, 2024, 03:01:20 PM ---1) Does anyone know of a good resource online for exploring 1920s-40s aerials of Long Island? I'd be interested in poking around, especially if there are images of the original Deepdale and Links Club.
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Nassau County's government website has a "Land Record Viewer" with aerial photos from 1926 and 1950. The website is terribly clunky to use but the photography is pretty good. Unfortunately those particular dates mean any short-lived courses that came and went during the Depression era (there are many) aren't captured. But anything built before 1926 can be seen, some better than others.
https://lrv.nassaucountyny.gov/map/
Jonathan Cummings:
--- Quote from: Bret Lawrence on December 19, 2024, 09:58:08 AM ---JC,
I don’t think it was Marion Hollins at Women’s National Country Club in Bethesda, Md in 1929-1930. Marion Hollins was living on the west coast and was somewhere between Cypress Point and Pasatiempo at that point in her life. I think the Women’s National Country Club was more socially focused than golf focused from the few articles I have seen. If you search Womens National County Club on loc.gov newspapers, you can find several stories on the club. I am including one of the early articles I found (right column):
Coincidentally, Miss Edith Cummings, the 1923 Women’s Amateur champ was a founding member of Women’s National Golf and Tennis Club while Edith Mae Cummings, an author was a founding member at Women’s National Country Club. Any relation to these famous Cummings’?
Bret
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Informative as always Bret. Related? Likely not as I come from a long line of Dis Extinguished New England farmers! :-)
John Connolly:
In the book, Geoge Bahto included his own drawing of CBM's version of Shinnecock. Other graphics of his routing I have come across include a 1930 aerial that was unique in that it had the outgoing CBM/Raynor course and Flynn's coming up alongside it and lastly a drawing by Flynn with his routing layed over the CBMs/Raynor course - found in Wayne's Morrison's book, "The Nature Faker." Are there any other routings of CBM's Shinny available for public consumption?
Paul Rudovsky:
--- Quote from: Michael Chadwick on December 18, 2024, 03:01:20 PM ---
Two immediate questions came to mind:
1) Does anyone know of a good resource online for exploring 1920s-40s aerials of Long Island? I'd be interested in poking around, especially if there are images of the original Deepdale and Links Club.
Michael--question should also apply to courses in Queens, just west of Nassau County. Prior to the end of WWII, golf in Queens was as good as golf was in Nassau...taxes, increased land values, and demand for homes from returning GI's and their new spouses after WW II made Queens golf totally uneconomic and it basically had disappeared or moved east to Nassau and Suffolk counties by the mid 1950's (except for a few still remaining NYC munis)
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