Post by falcarosforever on Apr 4, 2010 0:29:49 GMT -5
I've been reviewing a lot of the boards and find it hard to believe that Falcaro's in Lawrence doesn't get much mention as an action house. The fact is that Falcaro's for a period of 15 years or more stretching from the mid to late 60's to mid 80's was the premier action house every Saturday. Alot of the big name action bowlers who were still bowling action and the newcomers came to Falcaro's every Saturday to bowl big money singles and doubles matches Anyone who doesn't mention Falcaro's during this time period has no clue of what real action was. The action at Falcaro's on Saturday's was the last great action of the good old action days. I for one spent every Saturday at Falcaro's waiting for the right match to bowl or bet on. A typical Saturday at Falcaro's started around 12 noon. From 12 noon, bowlers would start arriving from at the lanes. As more and more bowlers showed up, the opportunity for matches started to come about. Gibby Pastor Sr. who was a Falcaro's icon, arranged most of the matches. Most of the matches at Falcaro's were matches of house bowlers against bowlers from other houses. Although there were many matches between house bowlers as well. Action at falcaro's didn't happen right away, a lot of matchmaking and bull shitting went on before matches actually started. Some of the criteria for a match was obviously who was bowling who, singles or doubles, which pair would the match be on, and how much $$'s per game. The house action shooters at Falcaro's didn't like bad action, meaning if you had a reputation of winning (being up) one or two games and quitting, you were considered bad action and it would be hard for you to get a match. Most of the time when a house bowler was bowling an outsider, all of the house bowlers not bowling the match would bet on the house bowler either in the main pot or in the back against someone else. On one particular Saturday afternoon, I remember Bill Daly walking into Falcaro's with Cliffy Burglund. The typical matchmaking start between Gibby Sr. and Daly and it was decided that Tommy "Triple" Yadanza was going to bowl Cliffy on 47 and 48. Before the match started there were a lot of bets being made both in the main pot and in the back. The main bet was around $2,500. Tommy won the first game, I don't recall the score and the second game with a higher bet came down to the 10th frame with Cliffy needing to make a 2 pin to win the game. When cliffy threw the ball for the spare the ball hooked just past the 2 pin and he lost........you should have seen Daly's face, he was dumb struck and Cliffy took his shoes off and threw them about 20 lanes down. The house bowlers were going nuts. It was great winning money on a blown 2 pin. That day, with the money I won on the Triple vs Cliffy match, I bowled the "Beeper" woo, woo and beat him 3 out of 4 games.
I will be back with more Falcaro's stories....if you have any to share with us....lets here them.....there are many and so many action shooters from this great action house.
I will be back with more Falcaro's stories....if you have any to share with us....lets here them.....there are many and so many action shooters from this great action house.
