Hershey Parkview is an NLE near and dear to my heart. For 15 or so years prior to moving to Hershey Parkview was a regular road trip for me from the Lehigh Valley and it never was anything other than a great day out. I moved to Hershey right as it was getting ready to close and I played it on it's last day open on a cold day in November.
Wonderful old Maurice McCarthy course with a bunch of holes that could result in a wide spread of scores. There were many different numberings for the course over the years first driven by the move to the new club house and then they would take the uphill par 3 in and out of the routing for some reason. This necessitated making a par five a par 4 - par 3 to fill in the 18 holes.
Some of the great holes included:
Original #1 that started from the old clubhouse - Crazy difficult hole ending at an elevated green smack next to the OB railroad tracks. Forces carry drive similar to Phoenixville's 1st but much more demanding. With the old equipment an excellent drive might get you to a 3 or 4 iron up the hill for your second.
Original #8 - Slight dogleg par 4 with the green in a corner of the property with OB left and long. If you held your drive along the inside of the dogleg near the drop-off you had a much easier second. However, there was all the room in the world to the right and it was very easy to just bail out there, leaving yourself a longer shot from the rough to a green close by the OB from a lousy angle.
Original #13 - Short par 4 that had a meandering stream moving down the middle of the playing corridor. Your options were to play it something like 7-iron - 7-iron to an area where the stream jigged left to leave a wider landing area - or, you could blow a driver up the right side and try to either hit the thin neck of fairway or even get it to release up to the green.
Original #15-#18 - Great run of holes - 15 had the green hard next to a public road - 16 had a beautiful fall away green - 17 had a weird drop off in the right side of the fairway an a beautiful very large elevated green - 18 was a cool par 5 with a winding stream impacting every sot from the drive to how ever many mistakes you might make (I know I've scored everything from a couple of 3's to a bunch of 7's or worse.
The loss of the course was sad. The architecture and the history were both exceptional. Unfortunately it was land-locked and playing shorter and shorter. Even in the 90's there were 4 par 4's that could be driven in the right conditions. Also, it was the only land that was contiguous with Hershey Park that could be used for expansion. The course closed with the building of the Giant Center Arena (Used parts of 16 and 17). The park (and some new access roads) was expanded over parts of number 1, 2, 3, 4 and 18. I've walked the cross country course a few times and have some great memories.