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Steve_ Shaffer

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Altoona Cricket Club NLE 1897-1937
« on: May 13, 2011, 08:50:42 PM »
Interesting article on the Altoona PA Cricket Club golf course history:

http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/550120/Area-s-first-golf-course--Altoona-Cricket-Club--was-laid-out-in-1897.html?nav=751

No mention is made of an architect. Any one know anything about this course?
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Altoona Cricket Club NLE 1897-1937
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 09:31:40 AM »
Steve, I'm betting that the answer is somewhere in the archives of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
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Steve Lang

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Re: Altoona Cricket Club NLE 1897-1937 New
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 09:58:44 AM »
My grandparents all lived in Altoona in that time frame and it had a bustling economy due to the PRR and its maintennace shops..  but it was a "workers" town, not surprizing the Cricket Club died out in the 1930's.

Is the Horseshoe Curve still there?
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Dan Herrmann

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Re: Altoona Cricket Club NLE 1897-1937
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 10:12:00 AM »
Steve - yep, the curve is still there and is used many times every day.   Their AA baseball team is called the Altoona Curve.
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