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WillynHook

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Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« on: February 27, 2007, 02:40:18 AM »
Here ya go. Watch bowling old school style.

Carmen Salvino vs. Ed Kawolics

Here's another from 1966...
Strampe vs. Thompson


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Ragnar

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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2007, 11:16:13 AM »
First, was Carmen ever that young, really?
Second, notice how they bowled without waiting for the adjoining lane to be ready? Concentration, yes?
Third, I started back in the day when you played lanes the way Kawolic and Salvino were - I'd love to go back to that, but alas.

Thanks Dr. Joe, for the blast from the past.

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Ragnar

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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2007, 11:40:04 AM »
Also, in the 1966 clip, did anyone have more than 1 ball?
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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2007, 11:40:34 AM »
Fisrt I had seen of the pin boy setting. My Dad has told me about being a pinboy when he was a kid. He said you got in pretty good shape, you had to. He would tell about the feat of doing four lanes at once. I can't see how you could do that for long....whew!

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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2007, 12:13:20 PM »
Being only 21, it was hard for me to imagine a world of manual pinsetters, old lanes, bowling styles, 'one ballers' lol. But this just shows that it was all very real & you needed great accuracy to score well in these times.
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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2007, 12:18:20 PM »
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Thanks WillynHook.  

And to all who view these, please note how the pins "lay" on the pindeck after a hit.  No messengers flying all over the place.  As tylerwiles said: Great accuracy!

And as I've mentioned in the past, you can still rent these type videos from the Bowling Museum in Texas I believe.

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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2007, 12:20:37 PM »
It just goes to show you how crazy technology is! Look at some of those strikes, the pins looked like they weighed 15lbs!! They would just barely fall over when hit pretty good! Could of trip 4s that went pretty late and then 4-5 went pretty late on a few strikes. Pretty crazy to think how times have changed since then!
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Re: Blast from Past: 1954 Championship Bowling
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2007, 01:20:51 PM »
You know that style could still work well today.  There are bowling balls today that have smooth reactions.  I know there's not many but one can still find them.  Couple that withy a smooth release/hand position and one can be very good bowling like that on today's types of patterns.  Take a look at Norm Duke.  Duke still bowls like that on certain lane conditions.  His thumb down release is just like the old days of bowling and is still very effective today.
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