00:00What did Donald Ross do at Iran to make this maybe different from other conceptions we have about his work
00:05as a whole?
00:07Yeah, thanks for having me on. It's great to be on with you guys.
00:10You know, the thing that he did there was super bold.
00:14Like, I've never seen him build bunker complexes the way he did.
00:19A lot of, you know, there, there's, you know, a lot of his bunker complexes are big singular bunkers, maybe
00:26two joined together.
00:28And here, there were like all threes and fours.
00:31Like, so instead of having one bunker, he built four bunkers.
00:34Instead of having a bunker, he built three bunkers.
00:37And there's, I've never seen it.
00:40And it's an interesting thing when you talk about research and you talk about what he built and what he
00:44drew.
00:45What he drew was completely different.
00:47Like, it was one bunker.
00:48But what he built, when you look at the aerial photographs, there were three.
00:52And it raised the question of, okay, did he really do that?
00:58Or did somebody, you know, J.B. McGovern, one of his associates do it, who McGovern was from Philadelphia.
01:02So he was there.
01:03He was actively involved in Neuronimink.
01:06And there, there's this cool old video of Donald Ross actually on the property, you know, walking around.
01:12And it's like, you know, how those kind of stop motion kind of, he's like, it looks like, he's kind
01:17of funny, but it's him.
01:18And you can see the bunker as clear as day.
01:21So either he accepted it and embraced it, or he was the one who came up with it.
01:27So when we saw that, we looked at all the photos.
01:30There's a great architectural or an aerial photographer.
01:35His last name is Dallin in the Dallin Collection.
01:37The guy worked for a company, flew all over Philadelphia and did aerial photographs in the 20s and the 30s.
01:43The guy was a golf nut, right?
01:46So he always took an extra can of film and he shot all the golf courses in the area.
01:51And so not only do you have like downtown Philadelphia and all the things that he was hired to go
01:56and do, he did all this stuff on his own.
01:59And so this Philadelphia area is this treasure trove of great old photographs, aerial photographs, and Neuronimink has a ton
02:06of them.
02:07So we were able to reconstruct, okay, what did he do?
02:10How did he put it together?
02:10And then we brought this to the membership and said, we'd really like to go down this road.
02:15It's unique.
02:16It's interesting.
02:17And the character is completely different for Ross.
02:19But we think it'll help set Aronimink apart.
02:22And I think it's a really important part of the architectural piece.
02:27Coming into Philadelphia, I mean, Ross was a competitive guy, right?
02:30He was a competitive golfer, he was a professional golfer, but he also was competitive when it came to his
02:35architecture.
02:36I mean, there's the stories he was very upset he didn't get Augusta National.
02:39So he went after Seminole hammer and tongs because he was like, this is my chance to get something great
02:46and to do something on the ocean.
02:48And, you know, and he went after that.
02:51I think there's a part of me that believes on and on manufacturers.
02:55And so Flynn had all these big, high-flashed white faces, beautiful, elegant bunkering.
03:02And I'm not sure there, here comes Ross in the late 20s.
03:06Aronimink's an established club, but they're moving to a new place.
03:09And it's kind of, you know, it's a real, it's a big club in Philadelphia.
03:12And he wants to do, put an exclamation point on this new property.
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