Word: bowle
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though many of bowling's new recruits are men, the biggest factor in bowling's boom is women. The successful appeal to the ladies has meant that bowling alleys can keep making money in daylight hours. Women quickly learn that bowling can be fun straight from the start. Says Harold Vineberg, who runs five establishments in Florida: "I've seen a woman who had never tried any sport get a strike the first time she ever bowled. That's pure luck. But, for that one ball, she is playing as well as the best bowler...
Hooked. Many bowling establishments have gone farther than merely supplying baby sitters and nurseries. In California, for example, the Futurama Bowl near San Jose has a $2,600,000 layout that includes a five-acre parking lot, nursery facilities for more than 180 children, a restaurant-bar, a dressing room, semiautomated food and beverage service, free coffee, a "Glamorama Room" with physical therapist, body-building equipment and steam room. Says Owner Nick Bebek Jr.: "These women start to take inches off their behinds, build their bust up two inches. They go insane! Then their complexions start to get clearer...
Dallas' Hart Bowl, run by Larry Hart, has so much daytime business that a piano player works in the lounge by day. ("The women have themselves a real ball. They like it. and it sure beats going home to do the dishes." The Bronco, another Dallas bowling alley, features two restaurants, a four-chair barbershop, beauty shop and dance band, and is diversifying to attract nonbowlers by installing pool tables, table tennis and miniature golf. Eastgate Colosseum near Cleveland has a swimming pool. 18 billiard tables, indoor miniature golf and pingpong, and handles weddings and bar mitzvahs as well...
...evening there was more koshosh, warmed by leaning pieces against the fire, beans, stewed squash, or some other stewable kind of weed. Or perhaps chilis crushed in a bowl, with water and bits of onion added, into which to dip the koshosh. As darkness fell, the Indians sat over the oak fire and talked of Zinacantan politics, of weather and witchcraft, sickness and crops. At the center of the world things are fairly simple, after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them...
...confidently expects to have 550 drive-ins doing $90 million worth of business by the end of next year. Says he: "What we have attempted to do is eliminate those things that people don't eat. You can't eat a 20% tip, a perfumed finger bowl or a waitress. It isn't the cost of food that has gone up, it's the service. We are in the meat and potatoes business -and meat and potatoes aren...