Big changes came in the 1950s, when the "modern," larger bowling centers sprung up. First among them was Brighton Bowl, on East Avenue near Winton Road, which opened in 1955 with 32 lanes.

The heyday of bowling alleys in Southern California is the subject of a new book. Author Chris Nichols gives all credit to Covina Bowl, his family’s favored bowling center of the 1980s.

Well, this behind-the-scenes video shows how it's done at Clique Lanes bowling center in Grand Rapids. The machine, an AMF 10-pin spotter, is an original 1950s piece of equipment.

DONORA — Tom Nobili earned a dime per game as a boy in the 1960s while manually setting pins at a duckpin bowling alley in a Donora social club. If he was lucky, he went home with $3 in his ...

Celebrity chef Mike Roy, who in 1946 had the first televised cooking show in America, in 1957 was maitre d’ and head chef at two restaurants — both at bowling alleys.

Bowling’s 1950s boom in suburbs gets fresh spin in new book Covina Bowl (1956, designed by Powers, Daly & DeRosa) was sparkling new when AMF gathered bowlers of all ages there to promote the sport.