Before the Course

WOODACRES FARM
(AKA STERLING FARMS)
CIRCA 1940

 Dressing Room Theater Building – Now on the left side of the 10^th fairway


 

Same building as above – Stable in back now part of the
Curtain Call theater, now on the left side of the 10th hole fairway

 
 
View of what is now the parking lot looking back
at the building across from the 10^th tee grill

 The Royal Green Restaurant

 

Atherton Hobler – Owner in 1940, with some of the first calves
on the property, outside the building across from the 10^th tee grill

 

Caretaker quarters now in the parking lot

 
Cattle grazing in what is now the Driving Range

 

Driving into the entrance – the 18^th green is now to the right,
notice the silo now on the left side of the 10^th fairway

 
Driving out the entrance toward Newfield Avenue

 

Inside The Royal Green Restaurant - Main Dining Room

 

Inside The Royal Green Restaurant – Front Entrance



 Molly, one of two of the cows that started
the prize winning Guernsey herd which grew to 65

Owner – Atherton W. Hobler inside what is now a
storage barn on the left side of the 10^th fairway



Hobler family Christmas 1939 – Inside the Royal Green Restaurant

 

Herb Hobler the person who supplied us all these great pictures in 1939


 
Chicken House now no longer exists


AFTER WOODACRES FARM OWNED BY THE HOBLER FAMILY
WAS SOLD TO S.H. GOLDING IN 1942,
NAME WAS CHANGED TO STERLING FARMS