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Post by daryld on Apr 5, 2008 19:53:05 GMT -5
This is a 60's story of BPAA rolloff in South Dakota. Everyone thought this fun. I had got by the house qualifying. The zone was in a small house in DeSmit near Brookings. Its a little foggy so bear with me. In South Dakota alot of the small houses supplemented the small amount of local lineage with small weekend tournaments. So this house of 4 lanes ran the zoe rolloff. I believed the lanes were Shallac. They had that strange smell found in candlepin lanes back east. They called it wax and on warming up nothing seemed to work. Lacquer lanes would show a dark track area but these lanes showed an area around the ten board that looked like a groove. I turned my thumb inside in my backswing and turned back to 12 causing a full roller. It rolled magically down the lanes to the pocket I was averaging around 210. This house had no airconditioning and they kept the windows down the lanes open. All of a sudden on a key shot a brown object moved in front of me. It was a cow's head stuck in through the window staring at me. Seems they only had night leagues and with all the noise a cow can to investigate. I was top qualifier and no damage was done but it certainly was strange. Bet this will never happen in New York City.
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Post by jjknapp on Apr 6, 2008 9:51:01 GMT -5
This happened one Friday night at the Hub in Monsey NY back in the late 60's... There always was action after the Classic League, Erinie, Dewey, Mike Ginsburg, The Beeper, etc. would arrive around midnight. That night there was a big poker and crap game upstairs at The Cue Room, which was a pool hall run by Red Katz who always was betting on something. About 3am the joint was jumping with action and the State Police raided the Cue Room, there was a door leading to the attic section of the Hub and some guy ducked out of it, hoping to escape. Well he escaped all right.....right through the ceiling and landed on his back on 19-20, the cops stormed in and took him away.
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Post by ssherar on Sept 1, 2015 21:46:42 GMT -5
Robbery at some bowling alley in the Bronx in the 60s. Everybody was asked to strip to avoid chasing the crooks.
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