At least one place still had pin boys, and one had a long disk shuffleboard table game, complete with sawdust on the left hand side of the alley as you faced the pins. I'm sitting here trying my best to remember the earliest alleys I was dragged along to which would've been east side, early 1950's. WW2 slowed down his bowling.but kept on pitching after he got back from the Pacific. He had a strong "paddle" arm, much to my dismay and the dismay of my ass. Dad pitched fastpitch softball 4 nights in the summer, and bowled 4 nights in the winter. He got my dad pretty hooked on bowling by the mid to late 30's, and both bowled with the Mich Con travel teams of the day, amongst others teams.
Thunderbird lanes allen park pro#
My uncle Russ was determined to become a pro bowler, and bowled like a wild man all over Detroit starting in the late 1920's. This thread pains me.hated to read some of what I did, and there is a bunch of other stuff lost to my memory now.no one is alive anymore to call and ask. Sadly to say that the Main Art Theatre may close and be demolish soon due to new complex.
Thunderbird lanes allen park movie#
Imagine Theatres will have a 10 seat movie theatre and 10 lane bowling alley on the corner of 11 Mile Rd and Main Street. Madison Bowl is off of its financial problems and rehabed its bowling alley. Today Oxford Lanes and Mercury Bowl are the only two left in Dearborn.Ĭlemente's Restaurant, Bar and Bowling Alley is currenty close due to remodeling issues. What bowling alleys did Dearborrn have? Dearborn used to have at least 5 bowling alleys in those days, probably more. My Dad also bowled at a place in SW Detroit that had an upstairs bowling alley that had manuel pin setters, the downstairs had machines I think, just don't remember the name of the place. I think Allen Park where I grew up had 3 bowling alleys that I can think of, Roosevelt,Thunderbird and another just down the street from the Roosevelt that burned down a few years back.
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