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Hillcrest was established in the early days of the movie industry in Hollywood, when Jews were not permitted to join non-Jewish country clubs.In An Empire of Their Own, Neal Gabler described charity dinners of the 1930s at the all-Jewish club, where movie moguls would gather and outbid one-another with gifts to the United Jewish Welfare Fund and other Jewish causes.
The site was originally the Idaho Country Club, which was formed in 1925 and built the original nine holes of the golf course. The clubhouse and course were purchased in 1935 and the name was changed to Boise Country Club. [4] Established in 1940, Hillcrest opened the second nine holes in 1958, at the south end of the property.
Yet the Hillcrest Country Club in Beverly Hills was the "Jewish" counterpart to the Los Angeles Country Club, and Lew Wasserman, chairman of the board of the Music Corporation of America, told Times reporter Robert Scheer that the Hillcrest club "has consistently discriminated against non-Jewish members." [12]
The venerable Hillcrest Country Club, a historically Jewish organization for residents once banned from other elite L.A. social clubs, is being sued by the son of a onetime Bel-Air billionaire who ...
Hillcrest Country Club, Kansas City Hillcrest Country Club is a private country club in Kansas City, Missouri. The course was designed by Donald J. Ross beginning in 1912 and opened for play in 1916. Constructed on the highest point of the County it was aptly named Hillcrest.
Oct. 7—JAMESTOWN — The saying "age is just a number" directly applies to 93-year-old Marvin Hoye who regularly golfs at Hillcrest Municipal Golf Course in Jamestown. Hoye said he continues to ...
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Hillcrest Country Club may refer to: (by state) Hillcrest Country Club (Los Angeles), California; Hillcrest Country Club (Boise, Idaho) Hillcrest Country Club ...