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General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: xrayjay on July 25, 2014, 01:41:17 PM
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I remember sweating like a pig... :-[ :P it was hot!!
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The days when you bowled pot games across 12 lanes.
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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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The pin marks on my arm from the transparency's marker wiping off all over me
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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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The ultimate place would have those scoring tables and Star Shield masking units, with lights that still work.
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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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The haze of smoke
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Can I have one for my office, please???
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Can I have one for my office, please???
If I remember, This one in the photo is for sale Sir....
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In another forum, there's a post about a 6 lane wood house somewhere east.....
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more pics from this 6 lane wood house....
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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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Give me the marker dude
Smokey, you mark that frame, your entering a world of pain!
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Oh the good old days!
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what do you remember sitting next to this?
1. I remember actually "stringing" the strikes together.
2. I remember 200 was a great game, and 190 was a good average.
3. I remember being told not to actually touch the new bulbs glass when replacing the old one, because the oil residue from your skin would cause the new bulb to burn out quickly.
4. I remember probably 90% of bowlers had a single ball bag.
5. I remember the first 300 game I ever saw.
6. I remember the first 300 game I ever bowled.
7. I remember when rubber was king.
8. I remember thinking it was odd when the guy behind the counter mentioned that I could actually buy my own bowling ball and shoes.
9. I remember giving $60 for my "Top of the line" Columbia Yellow Dot.
10. I remember shooting 824 with a Manhattan Rubber ball for the back three of a four game set, then being told it didn't count because they used only the first three games. :(
Lots of good memories associated with that thing, at least for me.
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I remember having to tip your scorekeeper after bowling the local or state association tournaments. We weren't allowed to keep our own scores.
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we have two places in Oshkosh WI that still have the sheets of paper instead of the overheads, as well as no hand driers just towels attached to the over the top return. kind of Nostalgic to bowl at those places
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Similar memories from the 8 lane house they built in my home town. The telescores were even the same tangerine color. I also did the lanes with a spray gun. We towled foul line to head pin with a Turkish towel. Started at the last gutter splice with the spray gun about knee high walking backwards to the dots. Let the fog settle, then toweled the lanes foul line to head pin and back again. I would like to know how much oil volume I was putting out through that gun.
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The vintage look :)
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My first paying job as a kid was keeping score at those old time stations. It was 50 cents a man in the classic scratch leagues. Transparent reusable score sheets and yellow pencils were the tools. If I was lucky I got in 2 leagues in a row on a good night.
Nothing like the feel of the heat from the bulbs and the glare of the lights to bring back great memories.
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i think the place i used to be at used the wrong bulbs, cause you couldn't event think about touching the metal with your skin
had to have a towel to rest your hand just to attempt to write anything down
And i remember using the "marks" totaled up after every frame to gauge if you were in the match or not
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I miss them.
Bowlers seemed to stay in the settee area and were ready to bowl. Now they are wandering around watching TV.
I liked keeping score. It kept my head in the game and I made some pretty good coin when the state tournament was in town.
Making fences to stop opens, stringing loops between strikes, putting stars on top of clean frames, keeping track of marks, and others made keeping score fun.
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I hated the first generation automatic scorers. More trouble than they were worth.
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The first automatic scorer I remember seeing still used overhead projectors.
They had a score sheet it typed the score on. They sounded like thrashing machines.
There was a slide on the ball return with numbers 1 thru 5 for each lane. When you got up you had to put the slide by your number. If you messed up then your score got on the wrong line.
The pin setters stayed down until you moved the slide. And they came down after spares to sense what was left.
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The first automatic scorer I remember seeing still used overhead projectors.
They had a score sheet it typed the score on. They sounded like thrashing machines.
There was a slide on the ball return with numbers 1 thru 5 for each lane. When you got up you had to put the slide by your number. If you messed up then your score got on the wrong line.
The pin setters stayed down until you moved the slide. And they came down after spares to sense what was left.
That is the first automatic scorer I remember seeing. Believe it was a Brunswick scorer and it was at Hartfield Lanes (for those from Detroit area).
You also had to be careful when putting the paper in the scorer to align the holes properly or it would jam.
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We have a house here in the southwest part of PA that still uses these projector's, it's a 10 lane house and is filled up most nights.
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If the final score was close, everybody's score was double-checked to make sure the math was correct.
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pushing quarters for the beer frame using the clip/pencil holder
someone else already mentioned 'stringing strikes' but it was also where counting marks came in to give a rough idea of being ahead or behind...and yeah, on occasion you could end the game up a mark and still lose by a few sticks
eventually smoking was banned in the pits and the ashtrays became cut-outs that people hung their towels on
phone on the wall to get the front desk...180 on [insert lane] if you were in a Brunswick house
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My first paying job as a kid was keeping score at those old time stations. It was 50 cents a man in the classic scratch leagues. Transparent reusable score sheets and yellow pencils were the tools. If I was lucky I got in 2 leagues in a row on a good night.
Nothing like the feel of the heat from the bulbs and the glare of the lights to bring back great memories.
This was me!
Going to the Early Birds league at the alley with my mother (her league started at 5pm), and keeping score for the ladies bowling. Was paid .50/game, which half went to college savings, the other to the video arcade. That quarter lasted me a good hour at either Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, or Joust.
Great times for me at the 'ol King Louie Rose Bowl. Miss it.
BL.