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Bowling alleys in basements or 2nd floor. - Forgotten Chicago There was a bowling alley on Berwyn Ave at Clark Street that was a second floor house but I can't recall the name of it at this time There was over 200 bowling alleys in Chicago at one time
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago The "Petersen Classic" bowling tournament was held ay Archer 35th Recreation bowiling alley until about 15 years ago when the bowling center was torn down to build townhomes
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest bowling alley is Southport Lanes at 3325 N Southport Avenue Opened in 1922, and is the only bowling alley to still employ pin boys
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago I remember a bowling alley on the north side of Lincoln Avenue, located somewhere between Belden and Webster, called "Monte Carlo" - if my memory is correct - on the second floor
Driscolls Danceland aka Cascade Bowling Alley Built in 1921 as Dirscoll's Danceland by Woltersdorf and Bernhard, later known as the Golden Pumpkin cabaret lounge, and most recently (and for the longest amount of time) known the Cascade Bowling Alley, on this site now stands an Aldi grocery store
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago Yes, I believe the bowling alley had a fire was demolished shortly thereafter However, I believe in later years was a disco roller rink or dance hall Edited 2 time (s) Last edit at 10 19 2011 02:53AM by Chipast Options: Reply • Quote AD: Re: Bowling Alleys Posted by: Richard Stachowski (--- dsl chcgil sbcglobal net) Date: October 20
63rd and halsted in the 50s - Forgotten Chicago To fill in some questions on forum, Brucks was the bowling alley on 61st and halsted, bowled there almost weekly during winter months There were 6 theaters near 63rd and halsted On Halsted north of 63rd was the Ace and Empress theaters On 63rd East of Halsted was the Linden, Englewood, Stratford and Southtown theaters
Globe Bowl - Forgotten Chicago There was a bowling alley at 4949 S Aberdeen called Globe Bowl What happened to that place?, How Big was it? How big was it's sign?
Beer Gardens A Century Ago The Marigold gardens became the Marigold Ballroom, which hosted boxing and wrestling in the arena that is now the church on the site The Marigold Bowl carried on the tradition of recreation entertainment on the site After the gardens were gone, my belief is that most of the parcel became the parking lots for the Ballroom arena and bowling alley
Past movie theaters - forgottenchicago. com In later years it > showed X rated adults only movies I was allowed > to take the trolley bus to the Gateway > See my previous post The theater turned bowling > alley on Kedzie was the Alba I remember going to a couple of legitimate films at the Admiral before its porn strip club era My older sister also took me to Disney filmas at the Uptown