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Post by Zoo Master on Dec 25, 2006 21:25:59 GMT -5
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Post by Zoo Master on Dec 25, 2006 21:40:45 GMT -5
1938 Bowlmor Lanes is built in New York City's Greenwich Village. In addition to becoming one of the longest continuously running bowling establishments in the U.S., Bowlmor will host the prestigious Landgraf Tournament and the first televised bowling shows in the 1950s. It will be patronized and revered long after the end of bowling's "golden age," and will go on to be featured in the 1987 Jodie Foster movie "Five Corners," several short films, music videos, a Guess Jeans print ad series, Cosmopolitan magazine, the J. Crew Fall 1997 catalog and two VH-1 specials. 1950s With the advent of the automatic pinsetting machine, bowling starts to pick up mass appeal. 1961 The number of alleys in the U.S. jumps from 6,500 to more than 10,000. The neck size of bowling pins increases, adding 7/10 oz. to their total average weight. 1963 Americans spend $43.6 million on bowling balls. 1997 Tom Shannon buys Bowlmor Lanes and spends millions of dollars in renovations. Bowlmor's new look and sexy ad campaign attracts NYC's young and affluent professionals. The modern bowling experience is born. 2001 Bowlmor Lanes is the world's highest-grossing bowling alley. Tom Shannon is awarded Bowling Proprietor of the Year by Bowler's Journal International. www.actionbowlers.com/bowlmor.htm |
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Post by cristofori on Jan 29, 2007 9:35:24 GMT -5
When I was in High School, my brothers and I set pins at Baldwin Modern Alleys, Baldwin, NY. About 1950 they installed "semi-automatic" pin setters, but still required pinboys. After a ball was thrown, you picked up the ball and put in on the return rails. Then you picked up the pins and put them in the triangular pin rack. After the next ball, you put the rest of the pins in the rack, and pressed on a string. The machine lowered and set up a full rack. Still had to cover a pair of lanes by sitting on the dividing board between them. The danger of "fly wood" was lessened due to the bulk of the machine. Ah, memories!
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Post by relic on Jan 29, 2007 23:59:25 GMT -5
to cristofori
yes those were great memories, that's how I started bowling in the early 50s at ovington lanes in brooklyn. bowling with pin boys had a real feel to it, very different than with these machines.
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Post by mrbill on Jun 29, 2010 10:41:56 GMT -5
I'm only 46 but growing up in long beach long Island and Hanging out at the Long Beach Bowl I've seen alot of $$ change hands..
I remember as a kid sneaking up the stairs where the bar was and all that cigur smoke.
Alot of times if I was real sneaky and got up the long wide stair case with out the front desk seeing me, I would sit quitely off to the side and watch for hours all the old timers talk the talk and walk the walk.
So much $$ on every table and the cigaur smoke I remember.
The names of everyone I did not know but the times I will never forget and I wish there was a place like that now, I would surely be there....
I try to get action going all the time at the 3 alleys I go to but it hard to get some one to puT down $5 a game even if I let them win a few $20 a game freaks them out...
Good Times.......
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