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WOOD EQUIPMENT IN THE 1920s
Date: 1920s
The experience of bowling in the 1920s was very different than it is today. Among the many differences, ball returns, as seen here in at a bowling alley in Menasha, Wisconsin, were constructed out of wood, and often featured chalk trays. After firming their grip with chalk, bowlers had to roll without the benefit of the aiming dots and arrows that appear on bowling lanes today.
Photographer unknown, from the IBMHOF collection