Walnut Creek Sportsmen Club

About Walnut Creek Sportsmen Club

In 1938 a local business man named Art Evans thought that the small community of Walnut Creek should have a sportsmen’s club. He contacted Chet Arthur who owned a liquor store, Jim Buck who owned a fishing tackle and fly tying store and Olin Eddy who owned an automobile repair shop. Together, these men and others like them formed the WALNUT CREEK SPORTMEN’S CLUB.

On the fifth of May 1939, the original bylaws were completed. On July 27 1940 the articles of incorporation were signed by the Secretary of State.

The first meeting of the club was held at the Bar-B-Q Bungalow at the corner of Main Street and Mount Diablo Boulevard in Walnut Creek. Some time later the club met in the basement of the Walnut Creek Grammar School, the only school in Walnut Creek at the time. The school was located in downtown Walnut Creek.

The club met there for several years until the membership decided to buy property and build a permanent clubhouse. Chet Arthur, Ted Whitmore and Monty Parsons each put up $100.00 of their own money and purchased a parcel of land at Old Tunnel Road at the end of Juanita Drive in Walnut Creek for a total of $300.00.

The members then built a two story building with a fireplace both up and downstairs. They gathered rocks for both fireplaces from Ralph Bollman’s dairy which is now the location of the Contra Costa County Water District’s Ralph Bollman Water Treatment Plant and Mallard Reservoir. Both fireplaces cost less than $200.00 to build.

After some years of meeting at this location, the members began to hear rumors of a freeway that would come through the property. No one knew for sure, so Jeff Giuffre went to San Francisco to the State Highway Department and looked over their plans and discovered that the freeway shoulder would cover the club property. Jeff negotiated with the department and got the unheard of price of $22,000 for our $300.00 piece of property. Jeff also talked them into letting the club keep the building. We wanted to move the building to another location but the city would not approve the move. The building was subsequently sold to Johnny Jordon who was at that time the Chief of Police for Walnut Creek, Chief Jordon took the building apart and used the material to build himself a house at Clear Lake.

The club then held their meetings upstairs in Chet Arthur’s liquor store near the corner of Main Street and Mount Diablo Boulevard in Walnut Creek, and later at the Park mead School.

Walnut Creek Sportsmen’s Club

Persons interested in membership in the W.C.S.C. must attend a monthly meeting to be introduced, have a sponsor, and submit a membership application per our bylaws. Applications are available from the Membership Secretary at our meetings.  WCSC monthly meetings are held on the second Tuesday of every month at the U.S.I. clubhouse.
Please go to the “newsletter page” for details on the meeting, the dinner theme, or any special notices.
Contact the Membership Secretary if you have any questions:
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