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we did all the carpenter work, when this was finished we decided to build one of our own. Martin had 50 x 200 feet on the north side of Merrick Road about 100 feet east of Springfield Blvd. Dad had a plot 60 x 200 feet adjoining that made 22,000 sq. feet, it was ideal for this course, brother Phil went in with us on this deal, we got W.M. Bowles to layout the course, he did the course in Rockville Centre, he was with us about three weeks he got about $300 for his work, he was good at this line, his home was in Sapulpa, Okla, we started this about the first of July, 1930 it took us about a month to get it in shape, we had four labors for about two weeks Phil took care of them and the plumbing work, Martin and I did the carpenter and painting we