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"1940s" - 51 Total Result(s)
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MORNINGSIDE RECREATION
Morningside Recreation in the Inglewood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was not just a bowling center. It also offered a soda fountain and coffee shop in addition to other recreational activi ...
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POSTWAR BOWLING
The 29th Women’s International Bowling Congress met in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1946. For the first time since 1942, the WIBC held elections for officers, a sign that Americans were turning their att ...
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PULLING YOUR OWN WEIGHT
As with most sports, bowling balls had to be standardized in order to compete in tournaments. To ensure this, the device seen here was developed for detecting faulty and worn bowling balls. The ring s ...
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REGULATING THE PINS
Bowling’s governing bodies regulate the size and shape of all bowling pins used in official competition. Before the Meister Brau Beer league hit the lanes in this 1940s competition, these particular r ...
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STARLETTES HIT THE LANES
Capitalizing on bowling’s popularity, film studios would often send their contracted actors to bowling alleys. Be it promoting their newest picture or drumming up mentions in the gossip columns, Holly ...
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STENTON MURAL
Proprietors at the Stenton Recreation Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made sure bowlers paid heed to the foul line! The novelty mural which adorned the back of the lanes envisioned bowling’s evo ...
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THIS PIN KEEPS TRACK
The Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company has long been a major name in bowling. If nothing else, the company’s success is evident in the vast number of Brunswick King Pins in existence. Just as bowling p ...
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TOURNAMENT IN LOS ANGELES
Los Angeles hosted the 1947 American Bowling Congress tournament at the National Guard Armory in Exposition Park. A few weeks before the competition, actor Harold Lloyd, ABC secretary Elmer H. Baumgar ...
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TRUMAN INAUGURATES WHITE HOUSE ALLEY
During the midst of bowling’s Golden Age, even the White House came down with bowling fever! President Harry S. Truman oversaw the construction of the two-lane White House bowling alley, originally ho ...
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VETS ON THE WHITE HOUSE LANES
President Harry S. Truman hosted three paraplegic World War II veterans for a demonstration at the White House bowling alley. Bowling was suggested to wounded veterans for its physical and mental bene ...
