Wealthy club owners spent fortunes buying adjacent land purely to block outsiders from view.

Evidence

When the property adjoining the Timber Point Club, a 1,500-acre estate owned by an eccentric old millionaire who had never been one of them, anyway, George C. Taylor, came on the market after his death, the Timber Pointers raised $250,000 to buy it. Then they hired caretakers, stocked it with herds of deer and flocks of wild pheasant—all for less than ten days of hunting a year and an additional guarantee that they would never have to look over from their golf course and see on the land adjoining it anyone they didn’t know. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 684

Categorization

• CANDY: The absurdity of buying 1,500 acres and stocking deer purely so club members never glimpse an unknown person is a striking anecdote.
• XREF: connects to: Park opposition came from wealthy estate owners protecting their private grounds — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 852

Broader Connections

• Park opposition came from wealthy estate owners protecting their private grounds #exemplifies (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 852