Sure, it’s in Queens but we couldn’t resist putting this fascinating photo of Oakland links into our series of photos from Long Island history. It’s hard to imagine the rolling hills of this course in the middle of Bayside but there it was around the turn of 20th Century.
There is a great history on the Oakland Golf Course in Bayside and other golf courses in Queens that are no more in this article in the New York Post that is worth a read.
This image is from a book called “Unique Long Island Camera Sketches" created by the Long Island Railroad published in 1901. The book was compliments of the LIRR and encouraged people to travel east to explore the beauty of Long Island.
An inscription in the books says that “The Long Island Railroad Company in the belief that the ‘sun pictures’ will describe better than words Long Island's many charms.” The photo caption simply reads, “Oakland Links. BAYSIDE.”