AMERICA AND MINIATURE GOLF.
“The rise of the miniature golf industry is a romance of American business in the old and grand manner—about the only success story that has lightened tlife year of gloom. Last winter it was still a toy ; by midsummer it was big business, a social problem. It was the spring of ithe depression year that saw a nice little busmens suddenly mushrooming into a big business; that saw miniature courses laid out, it seemed to the bewildered observer, by every vacant lot of city and suburbs. Why do people take to miniature golf—or rather, why did they? Well, ha r d times are traditionally good times for cheap amusements, For most of up it was not the material but the spiritual shock that hurt; not that such a terrible thing happened to us. but that anything happened to us at all after our leaders had solemnly promised that nothing could ever happen to us again, So perhaps, miniature golf did its part, and a large port, in carrying ns past n crisis. Perhaps the business revival would have come sooner if the President, and the Cabinet, and Congress had become minia-ture-golf addicts, too.”—Mr Eluierj Davis. J
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Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1931, Page 2
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