They said that my approach was kind of strange.”īut before they were done, Chuckster’s was built on 13 acres of land - nearly twice the size of most miniature golf courses - incorporating a thousand tons of boulders originally located on the property with nine streams and ponds, hundreds of plants and trees, and about 12,000 square feet of “carpeting” - again, about twice what most miniature golf courses have. “And I had some other ideas they said wouldn’t work. . . “When I told them that I wanted to do the longest hole in the world they said it was a bad idea,” Blasko said. He liked their materials and the look and feel of their courses, but they were doubtful about his idea of creating a genuinely challenging course - eschewing windmills and inane themes (including the dinosaurs and space ships currently popular in resort towns) - in favor of slopes, hills, dips, faux sand traps, covered wooden bridges, and fountains and flowing water throughout. of Wildwood, N.J., which had built more than 800 courses. He knew he needed to do something different to draw people back on a regular basis, so he went to work with Harris Miniature Golf Co. But I could visualize this whole thing right away,” he said. “At that time there was the building and the front lot, which was part grass and part wooded. . . “Then one day, I was coming home and saw the sign that this property was for sale. “And there are not many highways leading out or into Concord where there’s still land available. “I was sold on Route 4 because I was always struck by the traffic on it - especially every time I was coming home and had to turn left onto it,” Blasko said. And even then, it was only with the idea of creating a profitable ancillary business. A former ski industry employee - he worked at the Gunstock Mountain Resort in Gilford, N.H., and at Waterville Valley - he owned a custom casual clothing business near the current Chuckster’s site before he began thinking about a miniature golf course in the Concord area. The local entrepreneur never intended Chuckster’s to become a focus of interest among mini golf fans.
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