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Celebrating 50 years of tenpin in Boston
By adamg on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 10:12am
On Saturday, Boston Bowl in Dorchester rolls down memory lane, by returning its prices to what they were when it opened then - 50 cents a game (tenpin or candlepin, your choice), along with 50-cent pizza, burgers and drinks. So see if you can spare some time between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., unless, of course, you think they're out of your league.
1959 Globe article on the city's first tenpin lanes (with the "AMF Pinspotter Fully Automatic Unit").
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Comments
Time for some innovation?
I have always thought that candlepin would be even more fun if you were allowed to throw overhand.
sammy whites was a lot of fun
until the triple homicide.
How old are you, anyway?
I mean, I know I'm ancient and all, but sheesh!
Anyway, it's nearing lunchtime. I wonder if there are any specials today at the Charlestown 99.
That's always been my favorite restaurant
Number one, with a bullet!
im old
ive been thinking of changing my name to bostnman or bostndude but i cant let go of my youth. by the way, i was a kid when sammy whites "closed".
hey adam was it 3 or 4 people that were killed? wikipedia says 4 but i seem to remember three, two brothers and another employee.
be careful at the 99.
it was definitely four...
i believe that three were killed at the scene, and one died a little later. dyer was convicted of four counts of murder (and robbery, etc.)
Article or ad?
It's amazing to me that this took up the entire front page AND page 12 of the Boston Evening Globe. I'm wondering if the bowling alley or AMF bought a 'fake' front page that wrapped the real one. The articles have no bylines and the photos have no credits.
Cut & paste job?
Some of those "articles" seem to have outlines around them.
They're either artifacts of how newspaper layout was done in the time before computers, or someone cut & pasted them together into something shaped like the front page of a newspaper, but who knows where the clips really came from.