submitted by Dick Rovig

Jackson Park, That Was Then

1927 view of property that was to become Jackson Park Golf Course looking west. Cross street is 15th Ave. N.E. At lower left at the corner of what was then called N. 137th St. is the Olympic Riding and Driving Club, a polo field (the Caroline Tavern would eventually be built on the corner across 137th from the Olympic Club, see circle). Humorist Will Rogers played polo at the club in 1935 prior to his death in a plane crash in Alaska. A memorial to Rogers’ memory erected at the club has been moved to the Lake City Community Center.

This is Now