Josh Clark

Yeah, this is a pretty startling statistic.

In August of 1930, the Commerce Department said that there were, and apparently this could be low by even as much as half, 25,000 mini golf courses in the U.S., half of which were built in that previous six or eight months of the year.

Yeah, that's a boom right there.

Can you imagine like in eight months, like 12,000 to 15,000 mini golf courses being built in the U.S.

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It's crazy.

I can just imagine Garnet and Freda Carter just rolling around on a bed of money in their suite at the Fairyland Inn.

Yeah, and I mean, in a legit like job boosting market.

Yeah, no, well, that's another thing too, right?

I mean, like there was like flagpole sitting didn't make the transition to the depression and dance marathons did, but they got kind of grim.

Apparently miniature golf, and I've seen both, but miniature golf seems to have made the transition from 20s craze to, you know, kind of national pastime that made sense in the depression because you could take your whole family out to play miniature golf for pretty cheap

It's probably like a nickel or something.

That was a big attraction.

And then also, if you were like a golf junkie, but all of a sudden you didn't have the money to afford greens fees any longer, at the very least you could go play some miniature golf somewhere.

So it kind of scratched that itch to a certain degree.

So there was like a lot of popularity that even after the craze kind of crested and waned a little bit, it still carried on.

pretty thoroughly through the 1930s.

And as a matter of fact, Chuck, some people were like Tom Thumb Golf, the official franchise Tom Thumb Golf, it's a little rich for my blood.

What else you got for me?

Yeah, like why can't we just do this?