Sir Boab,
Thanks for that. Having lived there for 5 years, I found most of the history very interesting. The descendants of the poorer inhabitants, that Stevenson remarked would be crowded out, were mostly Latin, Italian and Portugue Fisherman, whose offspring I met, relishing in their accounts of the past.
Interesting points for further discussion in Mr. Lapham's article were;
The terms of the bet having been settled somewhere in the vicinity of Gilroy, my father and grandfather spent the next two hours in the car remembering friends or acquaintances who had come to grief in one or another of the cul-de-sacs at Cypress Point.
The "cul-de-sacs", Is that a description of Mackenzie's bunker bays?
Most of the stories I had heard before, not once but often, and quite a few of them I had by heart, like the Shakespearean speeches that I was obliged to memorize once a week at school: my uncle Roger at the age of fourteen, needing nine strokes to cross the dune at the eighth hole; the white-flanneled Walter Hagen falling afoul of the ice plant behind the thirteenth green;
Only one issue in Mr. Lapham's article I would question.
Ice plant was likely not present when Mr/ Hagen played there. Was it? It's indigenous to Africa and was introduced to stabilize the dunes at Fort Ord. Depending on when the Army did that, would confirm.
He never mentioned Steinbeck, especially since his writing style is similar.
Great read, though.