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"1930s" - 37 Total Result(s)
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IS IT PINBALL OR PINBOWL?
As part of the Gold Chest of Games from Lindstrom Tool & Toy Company, players could try their luck with this bowling-themed pinball table. The collection also includes checkers, backgammon, a horserac ...
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KEEPING UP WITH KRUMSKE
Paul Krumske was one of his era’s greatest bowlers. The Chicago-native was named Chicago’s “Bowler of the Half-Century” in 1951 and was inducted into the American Bowling Congress Hall of Fame in 1968 ...
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MYRTLE SCHULTE AS CHAMP OF THE WORLD
Myrtle Schulte of St. Louis, Missouri, was a mainstay of American women’s bowling for half a century. In 1931, she ran away with the singles and all-events titles at the Women’s International Bowling ...
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NEW MEXICO IN OMAHA
The 19th annual Women’s International Bowling Congress in Omaha attracted bowlers from near and far, including a team from Las Vegas, New Mexico (yes, you read that correctly) that became the first te ...
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PIN-SETTING MACHINES IN CLEVELAND
Upon arrival, members of the Milwaukee delegation to the 1930 American Bowling Congress tournament would have found 32 brand-new alleys and hundreds of pin boys, foul men and scorers at the Public Hal ...
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READY TO ROLL
Roll ’em! Thanks to the Brinkman Engineering Co. of Dayton, Ohio, you didn’t have to leave the house in order to enjoy a good round of bowling. The Bowling Alley #500 features a mechanized bowler that ...
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ROLL-OFF IN CINCINNATI
Bowlers competed for $17,000 in prize money at the Women’s International Bowling Congress tournament in Cincinnati in 1938. In a dramatic conclusion, Nell Webster of Elgin, Illinois, and Rose Werner, ...
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SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
The Deutsche Kegler- und Bowlingbund (DKB) is the governing body for bowling in Germany and is a member of the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs (FIQ). The organization dates back to 1884, meani ...
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THE FINE ART OF BOWLING
St. Louis, Missouri, folk artist Victor Joseph Kunz painted what he knew, from local landscapes to bowling alleys. This painting of three bowlers presents a familiar sight in St. Louis given the immen ...
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THE GREAT DEPRESSION CAN’T STOP BOWLING
In 1933, just days before the American Bowling Congress’s annual international tournament opened in Columbus, banks all over the country began failing as the Great Depression exploded into a full-blow ...
