Howard Hill article Popular Mechanics magazine 1930

tradlongbow · November 22, 2011, 06:00:00 PM

I've been finding these magazine articles about Howard Hill on the internet and posting them on the Hill thread. I wanted to post it here as well, so some of you may also enjoy reading them.

Darren

http://books.google.com/books?id=deIDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA443&dq=howard%20hill&pg=PA443#v=onepage&q=howard%20hill&f=false

lpcjon2 · November 22, 2011, 06:08:00 PM

Thanks, I love reading about Howard

Liquid Amber · November 22, 2011, 07:42:00 PM

Do you have any magazine articles on or by Hill prior to this one?

The first published article I have by Hill is 1931, a newspaper article.

The first published article I have on Hill is February 1927, a newspaper ad on the Opalocka archery golf course. There are quite a number from then to 1930 published in newspapers of Hill's activities.

tradlongbow · November 22, 2011, 08:21:00 PM

@Liquid

I have two more that I found, I ll get them posted in a couple of days. Can you post the one from the Opalocka archery golf course, I would like to see that one.

Darren

Liquid Amber · November 22, 2011, 08:59:00 PM

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lY4zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WdgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2470,847232&dq=opa-locka+archery+golf&hl=en

Ben Maher · November 22, 2011, 09:41:00 PM

Nice one Darren !

November 22, 2011, 11:05:00 PM

Lunches, teas and dinners are served at the club house and the swimming pool is just a few feet away and use a yew longbow made by Hill himself? I want to belong to that archery club.

tradlongbow · November 23, 2011, 07:48:00 AM

Pavan-

Those most have been the good old days.

Darren

Liquid Amber · November 23, 2011, 08:39:00 AM

Hill came to Florida to work in the land development boom initiated by Glenn Curtiss and James Bright. Opalocka was part of Curtiss' Arabian Nights theme development. It has been routinely passed down that Hill worked at Hughes Tool Co., but there is no evidence to support that. There is published material to support Hill working as a real estate salesman for Curtiss and it makes perfect sense....Hill was a natural born salesman.

The archery golf club at Opalocka was a social activity along with golf, swimming, tennis, horse riding and other attached to the development.

http://books.google.com/books?id=wxJKItY_mRIC&pg=PA59&lpg=PA59&dq=glenn+curtiss+arabian+nights&source=bl&ots=xxesVawRgM&sig=Ac0NMewslPgSPxLNAiqwDHU7LvM&hl=en&ei=KfLMTrjPOIugtwe1gvC eAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=glenn%20curtiss%20arabian%20nights&f=false

Liquid Amber · November 23, 2011, 09:08:00 AM

The 1930 article is what created the mysterious "Florida snakewood" that Hill reportedly discovered and used for bow wood. It was this article, some years back that started me on a quest to determine what this wood was.

You can read the results of my research on Florida snakewood in the Dec/Jan TBM. The following link is to Richard Ashby, Miami Pioneer, life long archer, founder of the Miami Archery Club and the real discoverer of Florida snakewood. He was in the foursome with Howard Hill in the first NAA Archery Golf Tournament held in Opalocka. If you scroll through the article you will find a photo of Ashby drawing a bow, one likely made of the mysterious Florida snakewood.

http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1989/89_1_02.pdf

njloco · November 23, 2011, 10:43:00 AM

I have never read anything about Howard Hill, it's very interesting and I will now look for other articles about him, he must have been a very strong man to have achieved those statistics.

Did anyone ever find this Florida snake wood ?

Thanks for sharing.