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Post by Renaissance Man on Oct 27, 2003 0:27:11 GMT -5
I would really enjoy hearing about Falcaro's, I've never been there but have heard they had real big time action.
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Post by Billy Tops on Oct 27, 2003 0:29:55 GMT -5
Here's some posts that were on the nostalgia board about Falcaro's
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Saturday afternoon and evening at Falcaro's in Lawrence was the premier action house during the mid 70's and early 80's. Guys came from all over to challenge the house bowlers. The true house action bowlers at Falcaro's were as follows and not necessarily in order of the best.
Tommy "Triple" Yadanza
Bruce "The Dipper" Pastor
Gibby ("The matchmaker") Pastor Sr.
Gibby Pastor Jr.
Barry Clare
Phil Caporusso Jr.
Al ("Ironman") Pinola
John The Pollack
Joe Viverito
Big Al
Julio Curra
John Dugan
Maury Berger
Steve Weiss
Steve Gowa
Paul Katz
Ira Katz ("The Whale")
John Kurkemelis
Steve Reiss
Aaron Goldfedder
Louis Rothman
Michael ("The Sailor") Sperber
Dino Star
Freddy ("The Silver Fox") Mayo
Freddy ("The Ox") Arbolino
Andrew Castardi
Mike Kilgannon
Mike Lemingello
Ray Shell
Anyone who remebers more .....please let me know..
Action Bowlers who came down to Falcaro's during this era to bowl either house bowlers or other bowlers from the region were as follows:
Jeff Kidder
Bill Dailey
Tavie
Joe Cologna
Cliffy Berglund
Tony Devito
Ricky Papandrea
Gino Papandrea
Louis Prisco
Big Earl
Bobby Simonelli Jr.
Hank Behrbom
Snake
Les Shirwindt
Jimmy McCueThe Beeper
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Post by SPIN on Oct 31, 2003 3:43:59 GMT -5
Billy: There were two, at the time I went to Falcaro's, kids, one was a lefty, I think, was absolutely deadly, there, sucked anywhere else. The other was "Cookie" Piacenti, great off Falcaro's right side, which was a gutter shot, if you planned on doing any kind of scoring. You either played the gutter, if you were a righty, or you donated your wallet and then some. That's where I learned to play the gutter after being nothing but a deep inside 3rd arrow player most of my life. "Cookie" taught me, pretty much, just by watching him shoot. And, a little on lane instruction.
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Post by Louis Capasso on Oct 31, 2003 11:06:05 GMT -5
Hi spin I remember Cookie he was a good bowler and the lefty you are talking about I remember, he came to Kenmore one night in 74 or 75 I bowled him and his friend a doubles match with steve stien. we won the 1st game and stien needed to make the 5 pin the 2nd game and whiffed it so I quit and bowled the lefty singles and won than the righty whose name eludes me also and beat him also. they were both class acts and invited me to falcaros or kuskys for a rematch! but being 15 or so it was hard to get there! and the rematch never happened.
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Post by SPIN on Nov 1, 2003 0:15:19 GMT -5
Louis : Kusky's in Baldwin, on Sunrise Highway, I presume. It was a very tough house, for both lefty and righty, but, if you shot there a few times you could score decently. By the way, that lefty sucked there, also. I worked just down the road, at the Pro Shop in Rockville Centre Lanes for several years. Cookie and I shot a doubles match in Falcaro's, after I learned to play the gutter shot, against the lefty and a friend of his, a righty, and came out on top several games, with some nice scores. I left pretty happy that afternoon, shootingwise and cashwise.
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Post by Billy Tops on Nov 1, 2003 0:25:24 GMT -5
Kuskies is where Butch hustled Bill Daly 3-1-0 and Daily quit the match in 1975
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Post by SPIN on Nov 1, 2003 0:50:21 GMT -5
Billy: I think, if my brain cells are working, you're right. I believe I may have been there that night. I was there a lot, on Thursday nights, after I closed the Pro Shop at Rockville Centre.
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Post by Louis Capasso on Nov 1, 2003 13:59:59 GMT -5
We must know each othet I use to sub at rockville center with THE GREAT BERT GOODMAN !!! I was a kid with the high backswing!!!!I liked rockville center i would play 3rd arrow out I believe !
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Post by Billy Tops on Nov 1, 2003 17:33:58 GMT -5
Billy: I think, if my brain cells are working, you're right. I believe I may have been there that night. I was there a lot, on Thursday nights, after I closed the Pro Shop at Rockville Centre. SPIN Your right, it was on a Thursday night after the league, here's the whole story of how it was all set up www.actionbowlers.com/bio/chapter9.html |
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Post by SPIN on Nov 2, 2003 5:42:16 GMT -5
Louis: I probably do know you, if not by name, then by style. Did you ever come into the Pro Shop?
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Post by fozzie99 on Jan 10, 2007 6:10:30 GMT -5
Hi Guys,
The lefty that you mention at falcaros was Ritchie Fogelson, the best in falcaros by far. A buck eighty everywhere else.
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