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xrayjay

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What do you remember sitting next to this?
« on: July 25, 2014, 01:41:17 PM »
I remember sweating like a pig... :-[ :P it was hot!!
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itsallaboutme

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #1 on: July 25, 2014, 01:48:56 PM »
The days when you bowled pot games across 12 lanes.
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spmcgivern

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2014, 02:02:34 PM »
Just a few of my memories:

1.  The smoke of 8 cigarettes during pot games as I (a kid of only 6 or 7) kept score.  Many a day I made more money keeping score than my dad did bowling.

2.  Semi-permanent burn marks on my arm.

3.  Temporary blindness if you didn't watch where you were looking.

4.  Having to keep score for only half the time while the other team did the rest.

5.  A time when everyone actually knew how to keep score.
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amyers2002

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #3 on: July 25, 2014, 02:40:51 PM »
The pin marks on my arm from the transparency's marker wiping off all over me
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xrayjay

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2014, 02:49:50 PM »
Quote from: itsallaboutme on July 25, 2014, 01:48:56 PM
The days when you bowled pot games across 12 lanes.

I used to get paid to score these pot games lol...then go across the building to play video games and eat candy which can be used to make tires....
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itsallaboutme

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2014, 02:56:26 PM »
The ultimate place would have those scoring tables and Star Shield masking units, with lights that still work.
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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2014, 03:13:29 PM »
Quote from: xrayjay on July 25, 2014, 01:41:17 PM
I remember sweating like a pig... :-[ :P it was hot!!

The metal grid that went over the plastic scoring sheet got even hotter than the damned lamp. If you kept score with that stupid yellow grease pencil, you learned not to lean any part of your arm on that metal grid. The only support your hand hand was at the shoulder!!
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kidlost2000

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2014, 03:35:10 PM »
The haze of smoke
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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2014, 03:35:33 PM »
Can I have one for my office, please???
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xrayjay

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2014, 03:41:49 PM »
Quote from: Impending Doom on July 25, 2014, 03:35:33 PM
Can I have one for my office, please???

If I remember, This one in the photo is for sale Sir....
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xrayjay

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2014, 03:44:03 PM »
In another forum, there's a post about a 6 lane wood house somewhere east.....
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xrayjay

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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2014, 03:47:05 PM »
more pics from this 6 lane wood house....
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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2014, 05:53:49 PM »
All of the above about how hot they got and the smoke from the cigarettes, plus, if you happened to work either the counter or the floor during those years, you will remember cleaning those re-useable thick plastic score sheets.  When they came out with the thinner disposable ones, that was a time-saver although it seemed to cause the sheet to be even hotter than before when keeping score.
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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2014, 09:27:30 PM »
Give me the marker dude

Smokey, you mark that frame, your entering a world of pain!
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Re: What do you remember sitting next to this?
« Reply #14 on: July 25, 2014, 09:55:46 PM »
Oh the good old days!
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