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WEBB: I don’t think there were really sand greens after maybe 1935 or so not in my memory were there sand greens. This whole system was working pretty well by 1947 maybe when i joined with a lot of other teenagers from the club to take golf lessons from Margery Holmes, who was a pretty good teacher-strict but attentive-and we would start out and after three holes you pass by the clubhouse again, so some of us would disappear from the golf lesson and go in and play hearts, but that was part of the club too it wasn’t really considered a shift of gears.ĬRAVENS: Do you ever remember any sand greens? On the left as you went in was generally the latest posters of people who made holes in one and got cases of Wheaties as a reward.
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WEBB: There’d be the banquet on the right, sun porch, card-playing area to the left, the bar straight ahead on the right, and interconnections would serve drinks into the banqueting rooms. Then they added a little sun porch to the south, where people could sit at tables and drink and play cards, and they did a little entrance on the front and pretty soon they did a back room where the poker game could happen, and by 1945 or so they had the dance and eat room on the north side of the car, the banqueting room, and at that same time they did the pretty nice locker rooms for the men and women in the back, but that’s as big as the old clubhouse became.ĬRAVENS: So you’d walk in the door and there’d be the …? WEBB: This was just one room the size of a streetcar. WEBB: They got a broken down retired streetcar from El Paso and brought it out and parked it end-on to the levy, so you could walk in the end of it and it was a bar along one side and places to stand on the other, and occasionally illegal slot machines. People were not traveling very often that far from home then.ĬRAVENS: So the clubhouse began as-what did they do? They transported some … WEBB: I don’t think it included any El Pasoans or Las Crucans. Emory White and Pamsey Ickert, Horace Nesmith, and my grandfather Jim Pool, and Pete Pettick, and maybe Mississippi Fletcher Tom-Sam Donaldson’s older brother, Tommy, i think ah mostly farmers and farm-dependent small business people in the area.ĬRAVENS: So this didn’t include many El Pasoans or Las Crucans, it was just strictly … WEBB: Well this was early thirties, i think, but i don’t know what year.ĬRAVENS: Who were the members back then? Must have been the charter members then. There was the carapace of the retired streetcar drug out from El Paso parked along the west side of the west levy, just north of the bridge. WEBB: Well it was started when i became conscious of it. When do you think the Anthony Country Club got started? Valley History: an interview with Jim Webb ĬRAVENS: Let’s see, Jim, you’ve been talking about a book about the Anthony Country Club and the members and the things that went on for a number of years.