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Top of the Globe

	The farmhouse in the 1930s.

Rowena Lachant (who read about us in The New York Post), was the daughter of Abraham Isaac Globerman, owner of "Top of the Globe"--the dairy farm that was located on our property before it became Jacoby's Bungalow Colony. Rowena's parents sold the farm to Jacoby in the late 1930s.

Rowena's grandparents, traveled from Russia to England to Canada, to NYC, before settling in Woodbourne where they had a farm, further down from us, on Michigan Road. (When they were too old, their farm was sold to the Mitnick family). Rowena's grandfather was one of the founders of the Woodbourne Synagogue and there is a plaque there to his and to his wife's memory.

Rowena's father, Abraham Isaac Globerman bought our property and began to farm it. In 1930, he married her mother, Belle. Together, they ran the dairy farm and an American food restaurant in Woodbourne (where the knitting store currently is). They were not religious people although they sold their milk to a dairy coop that required that the milk be kosher--hence cows were not fed corn before Passover and Passover milk was put in new metal containers. On the farm, they raised cattle and they grew corn and wheat.

At one time in his life, Abraham Isaac Globerman was also a New York City taxi driver and he had an ice delivery route. His wife Belle was an expert baker whose cakes (baked in a woodburning stove in our farm house) were famous for their height. There was no indoor plumbing in the farm house and the Globermans took in boarders in the summer.

The Globermans' barn burned down. It was located on the site of our Casino building and Rowena believes that Jacoby used part of the barn's foundation to build the casino.

Winters were brutally cold—and Belle Globerman used to rejoice when she could see the lights of the snowplow coming up the road.