6ISSUE AT HAND

PreservingOur Palaces

By Scott Frager

8SHORTS

• A pricey antique.• Keith Oliver selectedEducator of the Year.

• Chris Hardwick’snew bowling TV series.

• Crestor usesbowling to spread

its word.Compiled by Patty Heath

14OPERATIONS

$50 and ChangeNew technology will

cut payment card fraud.But you will need to

upgrade soon.By Fred Groh

18MY FRAME

Has Money Spoiledthe Fun?

Maybe prize winnings havebecome too important

to league bowlers.By Mark Miller

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22COVER STORYBack to the FutureCurator and preservationistChris Nichols bringsrecognition to architectGordon Powers’ bowlingpalaces of the 1950s in theexhibit “Bowlarama:California BowlingArchitecture 1954-1964.”By Robert Sax

30SPECIAL REPORTToo Loud to IgnoreClamor for raising theminimum wage is reachingan ear-splitting level.By Anastasia Swearingen

46REMEMBER WHENKentucky Tavern, 1944By Patty Heath

34 Showcase

38 Datebook

39 Classifieds

Cover photo byStar Foreman

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THE ISSUE AT HAND

4THIS MONTH AT www.BowlingIndustry.com

I’d like to share a little-known secret aboutmyself. It’s a secret my wife and kids know alltoo well.

I absolutely love museums!I make a bee line for any local

museum when I’m traveling. My heartbeats faster as I wait to enter theGetty art museum here in Los Angeles.

And when I go to a natural historymuseum and I’m lucky enough to findEgyptian mummies on display, Iimagine stories about the ancientdeparted. Could this pharaoh have been one ofthe bowlers of thousands of years ago depictedat the Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame?

Needless to say, the Frager family collectsmuseum memberships as if they are going outof style. Yet I never had the pleasure of actuallysponsoring an exhibit—until a few months ago.

I was delighted to be called one day by ChrisNichols, an editor at Los Angeles magazineand a preservationist dedicated to SouthernCalifornia culture. Chris wanted to curate anexhibit at the Architecture + Design Museum,Los Angeles. It was to be titled “Bowlarama:California Bowling Architecture 1954-1964”—very impressive—and he needed some outsidesupport to help fund it.

I approached the Bowling Centers of SouthernCalifornia (where I am executive director) andthe owners of Pinz bowling center (the centerI operate), and joining Bowlmor AMF and IBI,

we co-sponsored the exhibit.On opening night, I met up with Chris, who introduced me to a

gentleman named Gordon Powers. Gordon, it turned out, was one ofthe founding fathers of the“Googie”-styled centers theexhibit was celebrating.

It also turned out that as I’veworked my way around SouthernCalifornia for the BCSC for thepast eight years, I’ve been callingon centers designed or inspired byGordon’s firm without knowing it!

In his nineties, he was as amazing to talk to as his buildings arestill remarkable to see, more than a half-century after they went up.I decided we had to do a story on Googie and Gordon.

Chris, too, is a man with a larger-than-life personality. His curiosityabout all things L.A., his passion for the past, the encyclopedia inhis head about Southern Cal culture—all made it practically inevitablethat he would someday curate an exhibit on the most spectacularbowling centers ever built in our region.

You don’t need to be a museum-goer or a preservationist to enjoyour cover story this month on Bowlarama. All you need is a love of bowlingand a belief that the buildings covering ourlanes are much more than boxes. And that’sa sentiment, it’s safe to say, that will neverbe out of style in our industry.

– SCOTT FRAGER, PUBLISHERAND EDITORfrager@bowlingindustry.com

Preserving Our Palaces

This year’s Bowl Expo took us to sunny Florida, the home of Walt Disney World, and a far cry fromthe ring-a-ding-ding of Vegas casinos. It welcomed President George W. Bush as the keynote speaker.Social networking and the focus on hospitality through the “Business Behind the Magic” tour at DisneyWorld and the seminars managed by the University of Central Florida’s hospitality managementdepartment served up a wide variety of food for thought.

What do you think? Did you attend? If not, why? If yes, were the offerings applicable to your business?The Forum on IBI Online is one of the best places to share and communicate with fellow bowling businesspeople. We give you the platform. You give us your thoughts.

Don’t wait. Do it today. All reviews are good reviews! For those of you who are not yet members,go online now and join IBI Online at www.bowlingindustry.com. You’ll be glad you did.

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Keith Oliver, an elementary school physicaleducation teacher at Shalimar ElementarySchool in Shalimar, FL, has received TheBowling Foundation’s Bowling Educator ofthe Year Award. This award is presented to theeducator who has made an outstandingcontribution by exposing youth to the sport ofbowling through the In-School BowlingProgram which is administered through The

Bowling Foundation.Oliver has taught lifetime sports for the past 20 years in the

Okaloosa School District, educatinghis students on a variety of ways tostay fit and healthy. He also operatesseveral webpages for students tolearn more facts about bowling andhas even published a book onbowling to include a science, technology, engineering and mathcomponent to his classroom instruction.

PEOPLEWATCHING

Keith Oliver

Battlefield Lanes to become an Andy B’sBesides a cooler, more sophisticated look, Battlefield Lanes in

Springfield, MO, will also get a new name, Andy B’s. This will be thethird Andy B’s for Bartholomy Bowling Centers, a corporation whichincludes the Andy B’s brand and 7 Bartholomy Bowling centers.According to JR Huyck, general manager, work began the end of Maywith completion set for November.

Operating since 1971, the revised venue will offer 21 lanes oftraditional bowling with food and beverage service on every lane; 10lanes of private bowlingwith big-screen videos,music, flat-screen TVs

and new scoring; a state-of-the art underground 2,700-square-foot laser tag arena

for up to 20 multiple players;a large redemption game

room and prize center; a full-scale restaurant and bar with a cateringmenu; and, corporate and private meeting and party rooms equippedwith 60-inch flat-screens, laptops and wi-fi, karaoke consoles, andsurround-sound music and videos. These new upgrades are expectedto add dozens of jobs to the area as well.

Round One Corp is on the move.Round One Corp., based in Sakai, Japan, and founded in 1980,

is a publicly-traded company that has grown to more than 110locations in Japan and presently three in California. Shane Kaji,senior vice president of business development for the U.S. subsidiary,shared that Round1 Bowling & Amusement has leased approximately70,000 square feet of space at The Parks in Arlington, TX. “We wantto expand in general,” Kaji said. “Texas has a lot of opportunities.”

The Parks location, scheduled to be completed in October, will beits largest center so far, Kaji said. The plan is for at least 24 lanes,an arcade floor with more than 300 games, ping-pong tables andbilliards, darts, karaoke, and a food court and bar. The location willemploy 50 to 60 full- and part-time employees. The company alsoplans to open another location this year at the Stratford Square Mallin Bloomingdale, IL.

EXPANSIONS,OPENINGS & NEW

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A rendering of what will be (left) set againstBattlefield Lanes’ old entrance (right)

Chris Hardwick is a busy man. He hosts two TV shows, TalkingDead and Comedy Central’s @Midnight, and now AMC is takinghis web series, All-Star Celebrity Bowling, and making it a TV serieswhich is expected to air in 2015.

Previously produced for the Nerdist’s YouTube channel, theshow will feature Hardwick and Team Nerdist, comprisingcomics/Nerdist podcasters and their employees, competing againstcelebrities, nerd icons and comedians in an old-fashioned bowl-a-rama. Past participants of thebowling challenge have beenthe cast and crew of DoctorWho and Breaking Bad, as wellas comedians Nick Thune,Jimmy Fallon and ConanO’Brien. The forthcoming pilotwill feature Team Nerdist upagainst Jon Hamm and TeamMad Men.

The winner will receive a $1,000 prize to be donated to thewinning team’s charity of choice. The top-scoring team at the endof the season will have an additional $10,000 for its cause.

CELEBRITY BOWLINGTHE SERIES

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Bowling Is Alive and Well in KansasAs published in the Wichita Business Journal in May, the Hutchinson City Council agreed to issue

$6.5 million in industrial revenue bonds for a bowling and entertainment center. Developers includeWichita bowling proprietors Frank and Cathy DeSocio who developed The Alley in Wichita along withseveral other bowling projects. The plan for The Alley of Hutchinson includes 20 traditional bowling lanes,eight boutique bowling lanes for private parties, an electronic game room, laser tag, bumper cars anda restaurant. Other investors for the Hutchinson project include attorney Brad Dillon and developer JimStrawn, both of Hutchinson.

Japanese Bowling on an UptickIn Japan, bowling games played increased from 4.3 million to 5.8 million in the six months from

October 2013 to March 2014. The numbers were reported by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Tradeand Industry in Bloomberg Businessweek.

Bay Pines VA Medical Center Gets BraggingRights

C.W. Bill Young VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, FL, was the dominant leader in the seniors’ divisionof the 68th Annual Bowl for Veterans (BVL) Bowling Tournament. Three Bay Pines teams competedand each posted scores that bested the rest of the competition. The tournament attracted teams fromRhode Island to Washington State.

Rock and Bowl – LiterallyHow can you enhance center revenues during summer downtimes? Have a rock concert!Casper, WY, lacks a dedicated concert venue so promoter Pauline Kuxhausen approached Eagle

Bowl’s owner Bill Dudgeon. Dudgeon figured it would be a win/win. The bands get a place to play,and the shows attract a crowd who might not otherwise want to spend a Saturday night bowling.

After the success of the first concert this past February, it seemed like a no-brainer. How manyplaces have you heard of where you can go bowling while you’re jamming to a live band,pointed out Dudgeon. Kuxhausen added, “It’s a little bit of everything.”

Bowling for Peanut ButterThe goal for the Market Street Noon Kiwanis Club is 5,000 pounds of peanut butter to benefit

the Montgomery County Food Bank in Conroe, TX. This is one of the most popular food groupsrequested by needy families. To aid in achieving this, Bowlero, the newly renovated and reopenedcenter in The Woodlands, is offering a coupon for a free game of bowling to visitors who donatea jar of peanut butter.

Folds of Honor FoundationThe bowling tournament sponsored by the Folds of Honor Foundation has been set for Friday,

Aug. 29. It will be held at Little River Lanes in Little River, SC. Folds of Honor supports and fundraisesfor the country’s veterans struggling with post-traumtic stress syndrome, traumatic brain injuriesand/or amputation. The bowling world has always been a stronghold of support which offers anactivity that both veterans and their families can enjoy together. For more information on this event,contact Laurie Romano at 804-301-6054 or email Laurie@nextlevelbowling.com.

This clever bowling scene was madeand patented in America in 1907 by OttoEichenberger of Switzerland with theassistance of Leon Brock of New York. Itwas being previewed for auction by JamesD. Julia Inc. auction house with a startingbid of $6,500 and a high estimate of$15,000. The conclusion of the biddingand final result are not known. However,

the more important thing is the beautyand whimsy which captures a popularpastime of the early 20th century.

This 43x22x14.5-inch automatonconsists of two bisque-headed gentlemen,one poised to roll one of the several steelballs down the alley to an array of nickel-plated skittle pins at the other end whilethe other gent, enjoying his pipe, looks on.A third bisque-headed figure appears toreset the pins while returning the balls tothe bowler. If money were no object …

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With holidays and vacations taking the top spot formany Americans, centers open their doors to air-conditioned fun and fundraisers of all sorts.

This spring, Saratoga Strike Zone in Saratoga Springs,NY, held two successful fundraisers. In April, Jake’s Helpfrom Heaven, a local non-profit foundation dedicated tosupporting individuals with multiple medical challengesand disabilities, raised $71,865. In May, Saratoga Sponsor-a-Scholar, whose mission is to assist economicallydisadvantaged young men and women to completehigh school and graduate from college, raised $111,600.

The York Police Department in York, PA, is againsponsoring a summer bowling program which runs June9 through Aug. 14. Children, ages 5 to 17, can gobowling with police officers for free. The program isopen to all families, churches and youth agencies.

It was all rockin’ fun at Palm Springs Lanes in Californiaas “Bowling for Seniors,” sponsored by Senior Advocatesof the Desert, was held to support local low-incomeseniors. Sold-out in advance, balloons, banners, gift bagsand a huge table of raffle prizes greeted attendees.Much better than a rubber chicken banquet!

Clover Lanes in Rochester, NY, was home to the BrainInjury Association’s annual “Bowling for Brain Injury.”The association raises awareness and donations to advancebrain injury prevention, research, treatment and education.

On a more personal level, Taylor Lanes in Taylor, MI,hosted a fundraiser for resident Laura Kennedy. InFebruary of this year she was diagnosed with lungand liver cancers which have since spread to her brainand bones. Friends and family have stepped up to tryto help.

“YES Bowl” is a fundraiser for Youth Emergency Servicesin Gillette, WY. It was held at Camelanes Bowling Center.

The Los Angeles Zoo’s chapter of the AmericanAssociation of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) held its annual“Bowling for Rhinos” fundraiser at Jewel City Bowl inGlendale, CA. The money raised each year helps supportefforts to protect black and white rhinos in Kenya’s LewaWildlife Conservancy and Javan and Sumatran rhinos inthree Indonesian national parks.

Another summer program, “Say No to Drugs, SayYes to Bowling,” is winding up at Bowl-A-Roll LanesFamily Fun Center in Rochester, NY. This is the tenth yearof the program which gives students of all ages a freeactivity from May through August. Last year over 50,000students bowled over 100,000 free games!

What is your center doing? Email Patty Heath atheath@bowlingindustry.com.G

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Land served as vice presidentof the Texas Bowling CentersAssociation (TBCA) 1982-83 andpresident 1984-85. He servedon many association committeesincluding the Grand PrixScholarship Program of which he was one of thefounders. Land also served as the SouthwestRegional Vice President of the BPAA serving fourstate associations.

Donations may be made to the Foundation ofTBCA Grand Prix in his name and sent to 5700Grover Avenue, Austin, TX 78756.

IN REMEMBRANCE

IBI June issue noted that Parkway Lanes in Trentoncompleted renovations and is now New 10 Pinsof Trenton. Please note that the center is locatedin Michigan. We apologize for the error.

Commercials can go a long way in educating thepublic. The bowling team “The Goal Setters” takean active part in their favorite pastime, bowling, andin managing their cholesterol. Lowering cholesterolis a big deal and Astra Zeneca, makers of Crestor,knew that bowling was a good way to point out how

it can be achieved.Crestor and bowlingmake a good team.

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eginning Oct. 1 next year—a date subjectto change but not likely to—banks andother issuers of Visa credit cards will reducethe liability they shoulder for fraudulenttransactions using the cards at POS (pointof sale) terminals. The liability they drop will

fall on merchants. Issuers of MasterCard and AmericanExpress will follow suit sometime during the month.

The same liability shift to merchants in ATMtransactions with the three card brands will occur inNovember 2016.

Actual fraud losses to individual merchants frompayment cards have historically been “fairly small,”states David Tente, U.S. executive director of the ATMIndustry Association (ATMIA), an international tradegroup. But potential liability for ATM owners followingthe liability shifts—although the probability is nothigh—could wreck any bowling business.

“If their system is hacked, they are liable for the loss,and the loss could be staggering,” says Tom Busi,president and CEO of Firstcard ATM (Ione, CA), asupplier of the machines. If the bowling center does200 ATM transactions a month, and the linked accountsaverage $2,000, the potential liability for the proprietorafter the shifts is $4.8 million averaged over 12 months,as Busi calculates—unless.

Issuers of the three card brands will continue to bear liability providedthat the POS or ATM terminal used in the fraudulent transaction wascompliant with payment card technology that is now migrating to theU.S. The merchant will be liable if the terminal was non-compliant.

As if to balance the books, the migrating technology promisesvastly greater security for payment card transactions. Called EMV, itis a global standard for authenticating credit and debit card transactionsthat uses a microprocessor (chip) embedded in the card.

EMV will “essentially eliminate the problem we have today ofcounterfeit cards,” ATMIA’s Tente notes, and “it takes a big step withsome of the major types of fraud.” Skimming, for example, whereinformation read off the card is used to create a duplicate card, becomes“almost impossible” as it is now done with the familiar magnetic stripe(magstripe) cards; EMV cards don’t provide enough information.

In magstripe authentication, the card is read for the account numberand the validity date. EMV cards, by contrast, contain several dozenpieces of information that are exchanged between the card, theterminal and the card processing network in complex processing thatcan include cryptographic procedures. Cardholders are verified by thefamiliar PIN and signature methods, depending on the card issuer.

Introduced in Europe in the mid-1990s, EMV was named for its threeco-developers, Europay (now part of MasterCard), MasterCard and Visa.The venture was joined by JCB (Japan Credit Bureau) in 2004, AmericanExpress in 2009, and Discover and UnionPay (China) in 2013. The sixpartners equally share the venture entity, EMVCo LLC, which definesand manages the standard.

BIf that’s a credit or debit card purchase at your center, customerswill soon be paying for it in a more secure way. But it could mean

added financial liability for you, if you don’t act soon.

By Fred Groh

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EMV IN U.S.EMV-compliant POS systems for the American market

have been rolling out from manufacturers for about threeyears; ATMs, for the past year. The first banks to converttheir terminals, large institutions such as Chase and Bankof America, have changed-out 8-10% to date; at thiswriting, transactions at these terminals are still processedwith magstripe technology.

All told, the transition of the U.S. economy to EMV nowunderway will comprise four steps or phases:u Banks and other institutions issue EMV cards (also called

chip cards).u Manufacturers of POS systems and ATMs write software

required for EMV-capability on their machines.u Software is tested and approved on the machines and

at the processing networks. u Networks certify hardware and software for models in the

manufacturer’s product line.Magstripe cards will disappear, but industry observers

expect they will continue in use for at least two years,according to Sargon Givargis, president of Credit CardIndustry, Inc. (Woodland Hills, CA), a POS and ATM vendor.

Meanwhile, ATMs currently shipping are EMV-compliantbut will run magstripe transactions until EMV is required,at which point the EMV capability will be turned on, addsTom Pierce, chief marketing officer for Cardtronics(Houston, TX), operator of ATMs in four countries.

U.S. introduction of EMV technology has lagged most ofthe rest of the world, due mainly to issuers and merchantsbalking at the cost of replacing cards and updating terminals,and because processing networks here are more diverse. Butconversion will be thorough.

“Anything that accepts a payment card” will probably beinvolved, says ATMIA’s Tente, including pay-at-the-pumpgasoline purchases (where the liability shift will occur in2017). Even vending machines are likely to be lassoed,although no liability shift has been outlined for them becauseof the low dollar value typical of vending transactions.

Eighty countries are at some stage of EMV migration,among them Canada and countries in the Middle East,Asia, Latin America, and Africa, according to EMVCo. InDecember 2013, 2.4 billion EMV cards were in use aroundthe world. American Express, MasterCard and Visa cards inthis country will add 1.1 billion to that worldwide total at 2013usage rates for the cards here, reports creditcards.com.

When EMV processing begins, customers at the terminalwill not notice the longer processing time. The technologywill add less than a second.

But they won’t fail to notice that an EMV card readerswallows the card and holds it until the transaction iscompleted. That’s already panicked some users of the first

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EMV-complaint ATMs in the U.S., putting a high priority on consumereducation about the new technology by card issuers. “There’smore than one broken card reader out there,” Tente remarks.

Bowling proprietors can expect processing fees to remainunchanged with EMV cards.

WHAT YOU SHOULD DOMany POS systems are plug-and-play and feature small terminals

that can be replaced for $300-500, Tente says. “If it’s part of a largerPOS system, then you get into a lot greater expense for updating theentire system; but obviously the cost per terminal gets lower becauseyou’re spreading out the hardware that connects it to the system.”

Proprietors who have a revenue-sharing arrangement with anATM provider will not be making the decisions about convertingthem to EMV. Those who own their machines “need to talk to theirhardware providers, and if they’re dealing directly with any of thenetworks, they need to talk directly to the networks about when[their brand and model of machine] could be certified and tested,”Tente adds. “They need to find out what the timeline of theirproviders is, and do whatever they are going to do today, today.”

For some ATMs, EMV upgrade kits are already on the market,around $250-295 for a newer machine. Kits include the card readerand may include a motherboard, pin-pad, cables or connectors,depending on the ATM make and model.

Tente estimates that one-third to one-half of older ATMs willneed to be replaced. As Firstcard’s Busi observes, “If you have asix-year-old ATM sputtering now and then, and it costs $800 toupgrade this thing to EMV, then you’ve got an upgraded machinethat’s still sputtering.”

Newer ATMs operate on open architecture (currently WindowsCE), more flexible than the embedded software of older machines,and have much more memory. The two advances are expected tomake upgrading easier as payment technology continues to advance.

The current generation of ATMs also dials-in to processingnetworks through the Internet. This eliminates a telephone line,boosts the speed of transactions compared to dial-up connections,and circumvents problems to which a phone line can be subject.

David TenteSargon Givargis

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Givargis of Credit Card Industry points to two compliance issues. New regulations effectivein 2012 pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act forced the reconfiguration of ATMmachines as to screen distance from the floor, distance of the keypad from the user, andearphone capability for blind users. “All new ATM machines are ADA-compliant. Now,you’re going to have the new component, the EMV reader to read these chip cards,”Givargis says.

He suggests that proprietors who own ATMs that are not compliant with the 2012regulations could find it cost-effective to buy new ATMs, securing both ADA- and EMV-compliance in one move.

Busi cautions that the cost of EMV conversion may be on the way up. Prices to ATMvendors increased June 1. He adds, “Based on our experience like the ADA complianceupgrades in 2012, when [upgrade kits] were available early on, the costs seemed high,but as time went on and the deadlines drew nearer, the price went up or they becameunavailable. We ended up having a lot of orders for upgrade kits and no upgrade kitsin the United States, anywhere.”

Tente also forecasts a crunch. “The first liability shift takes place in October of 2016for ATM operators and chances are we won’t be nearly finished by that point convertingall those ATMs.”

Bowling proprietors are well advised to take a stance toward EMV that is appropriatefor a world in which technology flatly refuses to stop changing: constant readiness forchange, Busi offers. Already installed here and there—an in-house network at Starbuck’s,for instance—is near-field communication (NFC), which enables transactions withoutany card.

“I press a few buttons on my phone, open my electronic wallet, put it up to an NFCreader on the ATM or on a credit card acceptance terminal, and that money is transferred

from my account, through my cellphone, to the ATM, and then cashcomes out of the ATM,” says anenthusiastic Busi, who has an e-walleton his phone.

“In a few years, we’ll just throw awaythe cards and update to a new reader.

“Pretty soon, we’ll just think, ‘I wishI had cash’ and money will come out ofthe machines,” he laughs. ❖

More on EMV technology is availableat EMVCo.com, search ‘FAQ.’ Forupdated news related to conversion,click the ‘Recent Updates’ tab at the topof the home page.

We thank Eric Keating, president ofATM One (Palm Springs, CA), forbackground for this story.

Fred Groh is a regular contributor

to IBI and former managing

editor of the magazine.

ook up the word ‘amateur’ in theOxford Dictionary and you'll find adefinition that basically describespeople who engage in some pursuit,

especially a sport, on an unpaid basis. The adjectiveversion simply states “non-professional.” Withwording that clear, why does there continue to besuch a fog over who is a professional bowler andwho is not? Why are PBA members the only oneswho can make money bowling? And why hasmoney in general become such an important partof the bowling landscape?

“It's that way because it's always been thatway,” said former USBC field representativeGeorge Martin of Sioux Falls, SD.

Indeed, bowling's gambling roots date as farback as the year 1325, according to historians. Thesport didn't come to America until much later, yetmirrored what was happening in this country whenit did arrive. Immigrants who came to the UnitedStates brought bowling with them. Since the newpeople liked to gamble, it naturally happenedwhen they took to the lanes.

With movies like The Color of Money or JerryMcGuire with its “Show me the money” catch-phrase so popular in recent decades, maybenobody should be surprised that money isimportant in bowling today. While the Greatest

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Generation seemed to care moreabout others, an argument can bemade that too many BabyBoomers and beyond are moreabout “what's in it for me.”

If you grew up in the 1960s and’70s, bowling was more about timewith friends, family and co-workers.Someone you knew asked you tojoin them for a lot of fun and alittle competition. Rarely was prizemoney mentioned.

It seems to have remained thatway until the early 1980s with thecreation and proliferation of themegabucks tournaments. You mayremember the early days of theLas Vegas High Roller whenalleged amateurs paid $1,000 forthe chance to win more than $200,000. That prize remains one of the biggestever in bowling and well above most PBA events.

And it's not just adults worried about their own tournament payday.Bowling promoter Gary Beck recalled one parent who said if his family'syouth bowler didn't make the Teen Masters top four, he would not be ableto break even on the trip.

Former USBC executive director Roger Dalkin said today's parentssometimes make decisions whether their kids will bowl, not based on thecompetition but on how much money they will make.

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Maybe prize winnings have becometoo important to league bowlers.

Has MoneySpoiledthe Fun?

Former USBC executive director Roger Dalkin.

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“It's no longer about the pride in winningor the competition,” Dalkin said. “It's all aboutthe money.”

While tournaments are the highest-profileexamples of this permeation of money intobowling, there's plenty of it in leagues, too. Inboth cases, it's all about prize funds.

“Money in leagues hasn't ruined bowlingbut it has changed the expectations,” saidDenton County (TX) USBC association managerTom Turner. “I knew of a person who stoppedbowling because there was not enough money in it.

“It used to be a night out with friends. It should be about thewinning, not the money. My goal is to win first place, not worryabout how much money I'm going to win.”

Isn't there something wrong when people quit or stop playingbecause of a lack of money? But it happens every year in almostevery city. Others will not join certain leagues because they focustoo much on the cash and not enough on the fun.

The old American Bowling Congress Office League in Wisconsincharged just $5 a week for many years. Even when it became theUnited States Bowling Congress in 2005, it still was only $10.People in that league were happy with the $40-60 they receivedat the banquet, most of which they spent on liquid refreshments.

And speaking of banquets, whatever happened to them? Manyold-timers vividly remember all those late April or early May nightsspent at nice restaurants with hearty meals, a couple of drinks, andplenty of stories to share with league mates. It was the trophies theythought about, not the meager amount of money they were aboutto collect.

It seems too many leagues charge $20 or more each week tobuild up huge prize funds when $10 or $11 might bring in morebowlers. Add in the large amounts dropped for side pots andbrackets and it's no wonder bowling has lost so many leaguebowlers the last 33 years.

Side pots and brackets have become such a staple ofbig money leagues and tournaments, some bowlers caneasily tell how much money they won in them but not howwell they bowled or how many points their team won.

“I once talked to an association secretary who had todisqualify a bowler, which cost $2,000 in prize money, butthey didn't protest because they won $5,000 in brackets,”Dalkin said. “The only reason the person went there wasto cheat the system and win brackets. That meanssomething is wrong.”

Maybe bowling is simply mirroring so much else in thiscountry with the emphasis ongetting rich quick. That sends thewrong message to the youth sodesperately needed to grow thesport. It also forces too many newbowlers to quit after just one yearwhen they see the league theyjoined is too much about money.And it takes away what is supposedto be for most people a fun nightof friendly competition.

Perhaps bowling should bemore like golf, which knows how toseparate pros from amateurs.When someone wins an amateurtournament, they usually receive a

trophy and maybe a gift certificate to buy expensivemerchandise in the pro shop. But they are thrillednonetheless.

If the prize fund is what's most important, considerlooking for or forming leagues of similar-minded people.Let those who want to bowl for fun be with those likethem. But don't marry the two, because it's a recipe fordisaster for all.

Yes, history has shown there always has been andalways will be money in bowling. The many action bowlingstories still being told attest to that. But when that mentalitytrickles down to the recreational bowler, it's like thepiranhas are out for blood.

In a world where many think we grow the sport bychanging the scoring environment, maybe we should trydownplaying the money aspects that have been aroundso long and hurt us more than we realize. ❖

Mark Miller is a freelance writer, editor, and public

relations specialist from Flower Mound, TX. He's the

author of Bowling: America's Greatest Indoor Pastime

available at Amazon.com or directly from him at

markmywordstexas@gmail.com.

Denton County, TX USBC association manager Tom Turner.

Turner gives prize money to his business managerfor safe keeping.

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wenty-five miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles, the soaring pink pyramid roof

and towering neon sign of Covina Bowl dominate a corner of the sprawling San

Gabriel Valley suburb. Built in 1956, Covina Bowl is a stunning example of the many

thousands of “Googie”-style bowling centers that sprang up across the country in

bowling’s postwar boom years of 1954-1964. It was an energetic and optimistic era in which 25% of Americans considered themselves

bowlers. Those times were lovingly documented in “Bowlarama: California Bowling Architecture

1954-1964,” a recent show at the Architecture + Design Museum in Los Angeles.

Through rare photographs, drawings and original artifacts, “Bowlarama” looked at the

architecture and technology that created the Googie bowling center and helped reinvent the

sport in the 1950s. California architects led the way, creating lavish bowling palaces that included

fancy restaurants, sumptuous cocktail lounges, and live entertainment housed in energetic and

extravagant modern architecture. Googie is a form of mid-century modern architecture influenced by car culture and the Space

Age. It originated in Southern California during the late 1940s and was a popular style for

motels, coffee shops and gas stations. The term "Googie" comes from the name of a now defunct

coffee shop in West Hollywood, designed by architect John Lautner, which exemplified the style.

In the early 20th century, bowling had been a male-dominated sport played in hot, dimly-

lit saloons or urban bowling alleys that weren’t fit places for women and children. Then the

great exodus to the suburbs created a demand for mass entertainment accessible by private

car. With the advent of automatic pinsetters, ball returns and central air conditioning in the

1950s, it became possible to operate comfortable, glitzy bowling

entertainment centers that catered to a family audience.

The May 17, 1958 issue of Life magazine documented the new

centers, stating that “the American bowling alley, once stuck

shamefacedly in a back-street basement, has acquired a stunning

elegance and has bloomed into an all-purpose pleasure palace

offering a variety in entertainment and luxury.... [A]s a result

the game that was once a man’s excuse for a night out has

now become a place where he takes the whole family.”

By the mid-1960s more than 12,000 new bowling centers

had been built across the country. Fifty years later, most of

those glamorous Googie centers have disappeared. Those

that remain are now the grande dames of a $6 billion

bowling industry that, ironically, is experiencing a revival with

such “new” features as upscale food, cocktail bars and

nightclubs.

T

Chris Nichols' passion for all things bowling led him on

a quest to document and preserve our bowling past.

Along his way, he met the iconic architect Gordon

Powers, who, in the 1950s, helped to design the

influential Googie-style bowling palaces. And the

exhibit "Bowlarama: California Bowling Architecture

1954-1964" was born.

By Robert Sax

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Chris Nichols, curator of “Bowlarama,” grewup in the San Gabriel Valley and visited CovinaBowl often. As the author of Los Angelesmagazine’s popular “Ask Chris” column, Nicholscovers the pop culture of the sprawlingmetropolis, giving his readers a historicalperspective on the city he loves. A long-timemember of the Los Angeles Conservancy, whichstrives to preserve the architectural treasures ofthe city, Nichols is a member and former chairmanof its Modern Committee.

For some time Nichols had been keenly awareof the disappearing Googie bowling centers. Hedecided to begin documenting the history ofwhat he considers a “lost world of extremedesign.” He pitched the idea to Tibbie Dunbar,executive director of the Architecture + DesignMuseum, who quickly got approval for the showfrom her board. “I think it’s a period ofarchitecture that has been forgotten,” saysDunbar. “I’m astounded that these bowlingcenters were torn down. What a shame thatthey’re not here.”

A persuasive Nichols was able to securesponsorship for the exhibit from Bowlmor AMF,Pinz Bowling Center, International BowlingIndustry magazine and the Bowling Centers ofSouthern California. Nichols began assembling the

exhibit in December 2013, pulling it together in just a few months with thehelp of friends and fellow collectors of bowling center memorabilia.

The exhibit opened on April 11, 2014 and ran for a month. “Chris wantedto do something while Gordon Powers was still alive, so this had to happenfast,” Dunbar says, referring to a pre-eminent Googie designer. “This showis sort of a teaser. I hope that we can do a larger exhibit in the future.”

Cocktail Kitsch and Matchbook Covers

The main room of the exhibit was dominated by bowling center relicsrescued by Nichols and his colleagues. On one wall was a giant letter ‘A’from the outdoor sign of Arena Bowl in South Gate, CA. In the center ofthe room were a Brunswick Gold Crown ball return and telescore scoringtable from the now-gone Hollywood Star Lanes, where scenes for the cultfilm The Big Lebowski were shot. The other walls are adorned with kitschyTiki-style cocktail lounge decorations, a screen projecting a 1958 Brunswickpromotional film, and reproductions of period matchbook covers fromdozens of bowling centers.

Alan Hess, an architect and Googie historian and the author of GoogieRedux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture (2004), provided some of thephotographs for the exhibit. He explains the Googie style as an expressionof the Space Age optimism of the time, when technology and Americanenergy seemed to be making the dreams of the future come true.

In an interview on Smithsonian.com, Hess said, “I really feel that Googiemade the future accessible to everyone. One of the key things aboutGoogie architecture was that it wasn’t custom houses for wealthy people—it was for coffee shops, gas stations, car washes, banks...the averagebuildings of everyday life that people of that period used and lived in. Andit brought that spirit of the modern age to their daily lives.”

Designed by Master Architects

Southern California had long been a fountainhead of Modernist architecture,and home to such influential architects as Rudolf Schindler, Richard Neutraand John Lautner. While Los Angeles’s modern residential architecture is world-renowned, many of the city’s more flamboyant commercial and civic buildingswere also shaped by leading Modernist architects.

With the boom in bowling, quite a few Los Angeles architects tookadvantage of the opportunity to lend their talents to the creation of a type

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modern architect. Most prolific among these bowlingcenter architects was the Long Beach-based firm ofPowers, Daly and DeRosa, which designed more than 50centers across California and many more throughoutthe country.

Gordon Powers, now 98, attended the opening ofBowlarama and talked with visitors about theextraordinary period that his firm played a major role indefining. In 1952, “AMF went with a guy that inventedthe automatic pinspotter,” recalled Powers. “They gotahold of me to certify an alley in Long Beach, that thefloor would take their machine. I figured it out and it did.”

It was the beginning of a profitable relationship forboth firms. “Bowling was coming up like mad,” Powerssaid. “When their vice-president got a lead, he’d call me. He’d sell the machines andI’d sell the architecture.”

Powers’ partner Pat DeRosa was perhaps the biggest influence on the classicGoogie bowling center. “Pat did all the design of the front elevation of the building.That was his forte,” Powers reported. “I ran the business and did the design of thefloor plan to make it work.”

Covina Bowl is one of Powers, Daly and DeRosa’s best-known designs. It wasdesigned with an Egyptian theme, using a huge bisected pyramid that forms the roofover the entrance as the unifying element. Inside the center was the Pyramid Room,which hosted top musical acts from Liberace to the Smothers Brothers. AnotherDeRosa project, Futurama Lanes in San Jose, CA, boasted the Persian-influencedMagic Carpet Room. It was a silky, jeweled fantasy harem with 470,000 beadsstrung overhead.

The “Bowlarama” exhibit also highlighted the work of other top architects of theera, including:

n Edward Killingsworth, best known for his award-winning Case Study Houses ofthe 1950s. He created the crisp, elegant design for Red Fox Lanes in Long Beach.

n A. Quincy Jones, known for his innovative work with housing tracts. His designfor South Bay Bowling Center in Redondo Beach featured a plush cocktail loungewith windows looking out onto the lanes. This predated by decades the current trendto bars amid the lanes.

n Paul Revere Williams, a pioneering African-American architect who designedmovie star homes for Tyrone Power and Lucille Ball and an iconic remodel of theBeverly Hills Hotel. He also designed Arrowhead Bowl in the more prosaic environsof San Bernardino.

Where Have All the Googies Gone?

“Bowlarama” was a bittersweet appreciation of an American institution that hasbeen decimated by changing tastes, neglect and outright vandalism. In 2009 anepisode of the reality TV show Human Wrecking Balls delighted in the destructionof the former Southwest Bowl center in south Los Angeles.

Nichols was horrified at the bizarre spectacle. "I screamed...as they tore apart theoriginal oak bowling ball cases, smashed balls into the brick and leaped through thetrophy case, but when [show participant] Paul Pumphrey drop kicked the original 1957pink-and-blue steel and neon sign off the roof, I lost it," he blogged at the time.

Not many of the 12,000 classic centers are still extant, and few of those are stillin use. Nichols and others in the preservation community are doing what they can

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to save them and their history. In thefuture, Nichols hopes to mount a largerexhibition and publish a book about theGoogie bowling centers.

In the meantime, for the price of agame, plus shoe rental, you can stillexperience first-hand the glory that wasGoogie. Nichols lists the following amongthe remaining jewels of SouthernCalifornia bowling architecture: u Bay Shore Lanes

234 Pico Blvd., Santa Monicau Bowlium

4666 Holt Blvd., Montclairu Covina Bowl

1060 San Bernardino Rd., Covinau Friendly Hills Lanes

15545 Whittier Blvd., Whittier u Linbrook Bowl

201 S. Brookhurst, Anaheimu Mar Vista Lanes

12125 Venice Blvd., Los Angelesu Palos Verdes Bowl

24600 Crenshaw Blvd., Torrance u Pinz

12655 Ventura Blvd., Studio City u Shatto 39 Lanes

3255 W. 4th St., Los Angeles u Zodo’s

5925 Calle Real, Goleta ❖

Robert Sax is a writer and PR

consultant in Los Angeles. He

grew up in Toronto, Canada, the

home of five-pin bowling.

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oliticians at the federal, state, and local level can have atremendous impact on how you operate your bowling centers.This has been especially evident over the past year as lawmakersacross the country have joined labor activists to push for higher

minimum wages. For the first time in many years, there is a widespread,national wave of political support for dramatic increases in minimumwages. At least seven states have passed legislation to raise theirminimum wages this year alone. With a growing movement in major citiesto push the minimum wage to $15 per hour, wage hikes could have asevere impact on your labor costs and your bottom line.

Regardless of whether you do business in one of the states that willraise its minimum wage, the national attention on the entry-level wagerates may have a political effect on Congress. Republicans currentlycontrol the U.S. House of Representatives and Democrats control theSenate—but the GOP maintains a good chance of taking control of theSenate in November. Democratic leaders are trying to use the party’ssupport for a minimum wage increase—a popular policy—to maintaincontrol of the federal government’s upper chamber.

For business owners, the minimum wage debate has simply become

too loud to ignore. Here’s a breakdown of the mostimportant components of the issue:

v 2013 Minimum Wage ActionLast year during his State of the Union address to

Congress, President Obama brought the minimumwage to the forefront of national politics once again.Though there isn’t a real possibility of raising thefederal minimum wage under the current Congress—Republicans who control the House of Representativeshave adamantly said that they do not support adramatic hike in the federal wage rate—PresidentObama and national Democrats have rallied statelawmakers to raise their rates.

In 2013, state lawmakers in California, Connecticut,New York, and Rhode Island approved higher minimumwages. These legislative victories, however, have notbeen enough to satisfy activists in those states—eachstate has seen further pushes for higher wages in 2014.

Also in 2013, voters in San Jose, CA, and NewJersey approved ballot measures to increase theirminimum wages. San Jose’s measure raised the city’srate to $10 and tied future increases to inflation, whileNew Jersey’s measure raised the state’s minimumwage from the federal level of $7.25 per hour to $8.25and also tied future wage hikes to inflation.

These victories at the ballot box and in statelegislatures encouraged activists to ramp up theirefforts to push for higher minimum wages to newheights in 2014.

P

Clamor for raising the minimumwage is reaching an ear-splittinglevel, but don't plug your ears!

Read, listen and learn.

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v $10.10 Minimum Wage Gains Serious TractionPoliticians and activists who favored drastically higher minimum

wages were previously seen as out of touch with the currentpolitical realities. (In his State of the Union speech, PresidentObama called for an increase to $9 per hour.) But now thesefringe proposals to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 or even ashigh as $15 per hour are being seriously considered and enactedby states and localities.

For several years, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has pushed for a federalminimum wage of $10.10 per hour, a figure based on what theminimum wage would be had it been indexed to inflation since1968. The figure is largely symbolic—had the minimum wage beenindexed to inflation since it wasoriginally enacted in 1938 (instead ofthe cherry-picked 1968 figure), thenit would be just over $4 per hourtoday. Harkin’s $10.10 figure wasoriginally criticized by members of hisown party as too high, but afterpolitical pressure from supportivelabor activists, his $10.10 dream hasbeen embraced at all political levels.

At least four states have alreadyapproved legislation to raise theirminimum wage rates to at least$10.10 per hour. Businesses inConnecticut, Hawaii, and Marylandwill soon have to pay their employeesat least $10.10 per hour; Vermont hasapproved a wage hike to $10.50 perhour. Delaware, Minnesota, andWest Virginia have also approvedminimum wage increases, but tolower levels. Other cities and localitieshave approved even higher entry-level wages—Washington, D.C. andtwo neighboring counties inMaryland will raise their wage ratesto $11.50 per hour. And Seattle couldsoon join SeaTac, WA, as the onlycities to approve $15 per hourminimum wages.

The movement to raise theminimum wage to such high levelshas been spurred by coordinatedprotests organized by labor unionsin major cities across the country torally for a $15 minimum wage.Unions have organized fast-foodemployees in 150 U.S. cities to push

for a $15 per hour minimum wage several times in the pastyear. The efforts have received significant attention,even as critics of the proposal have pointed out thatsuch a high wage would result in fewer jobs and increasedreliance on technology to reduce the need for employees.

v Negative Consequences of DramaticWage Hikes

Those who oppose wage hikes are often criticizedfor their views, but research repeatedly demonstrates thepolicy’s unintended consequences. Economists have

warned policymakers for decades that raising theminimum wage results in fewer jobs and lostopportunities for entry-level employees to gainvaluable job experience. The nonpartisanCongressional Budget Office analyzed thefederal proposal to raise the minimum wage bynearly 40% to $10.10 per hour and estimated itwould result in up to one million lost jobs.

Raising the minimum wage has adisproportionate impact on some of the mostvulnerable jobseekers. Teen unemployment hasbeen over 20% for over five years—a problemthat would likely be exacerbated by a minimumwage increase. Research from economists atMiami and Trinity University found that at least114,000 teen jobs were lost as a consequenceof the last federal wage hike. These sameresearchers also found that for every 10%increase in the minimum wage, employmentmay fall as much as 6.6% for young black andHispanic teens ages 16 to 19.

Despite the mountain of evidence showingthat minimum wage hikes result in job losses,wage hikes continue to be popular with voters.Democrats are hoping to capitalize on thatpopularity this fall by making the minimum wagea campaign issue.

v Minimum Wage and theNovember 2014 Elections

At the end of April, the U.S. Senate held avote on Sen. Harkin’s legislation to raise theminimum wage to $10.10. As Democratsexpected, the measure failed—but Democratsput the bill up for a vote to force Republicans toopenly oppose raising the minimum wage. That’sbecause polls show that roughly 70% of voterssupport an increase in the minimum wage.

To capitalize on the policy’s popularity,Democrats running for U.S. Senate are trying to

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bring their support for a wage hike to the forefront of thecampaign. They’re also hoping that several ballot measures toraise the minimum wage could help increase turnout forDemocrats. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Mark Begich (D-AK)are both seen as in danger of losing their re-election bids andare hoping that their support for ballot measures to raise theirstate’s minimum wages will boost turnout in their favor. Thereis also the possibility of a minimum wage measure on the ballot

in Michigan, where the battle to replace retiring SenatorCarl Levin (D) is still a toss-up. The minimum wage is also akey issue in Kentucky’s race—Senator Mitch McConnell isfighting off a challenge from the state’s Secretary of State whois highly supportive of a higher minimum wage.

Though Democrats are banking on their support for thepolicy to help them win votes, polling indicates that it maynot be enough. Fifty-two percent of registered voters say theyare willing to vote for a candidate who disagrees with themon raising the minimum wage, according to a poll from TheNew York Times/CBS News.

The minimum wage will continue to be a hot-button issueheading into the next legislative session. If you’re interestedin how minimum wage bills and other proposals can affectyour business, visit the Legislative section ofwww.MyBPAA.com, BPAA’s members-only informationcenter. Or contact Kristen Eastlick at Berman and Companyat eastlick@bermanco.com. ❖

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Activists even organized a bus tour that traveled thecountry in favor of the wage hike. And in response to thistour, the Berman and Company-managed EmploymentPolicy Institute arranged for a mobile billboard to follow the

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SOUTHWEST KANSAS: Well-maintained 8-lane center, A-2s, full-service restaurant.Includes business and real estate. Nice,smaller community. Owner retiring. $212,000.Leave message (620) 397-5828.

16-lane center in Southern Coloradomountains. Great condition. 18,000 s/fbuilding w/ restaurant & lounge. Pavedparking 100+ vehicles. Establishedleagues & tournaments. $950,000 ormake offer. Kipp (719) 852-0155.

CENTRAL NEW YORK: 12-lane center ingreat condition boasting many upgrades/improvements. Offers pro shop, lounge andrestaurant, OTB, NYS Lottery, Quick Draw &gaming arcade. Great ROI! Establishedclientele and no local competition. $449,000.Call for pics/info: Jayne Wentworth, Broker,Kay R.E. (315) 264-1456.

OKLAHOMA: 16-lane center w/ large lasertag, only arcade in area and thriving lounge.Steltronics SuperElex w/ 42” flat screens andrefurbished A2s. Completely upgraded andremodeled. Owner financing and option topurchase shopping center for viable buyers.Business for sale apart from real estate.(719) 251-1616.

CENTRAL OHIO: 16-lane profitableBrunswick center with nightly leagues,lounge and snack bar. In fastest-growing andhighest-income county in Ohio. Call Debra(740) 369-3451.

NW NEVADA: Retiring Owner-Financed. 12-lanes + Leased Café + Large Bar/Lounge +Arcade. Established Bowling Leagues + PoolLeagues/Tournaments + Slots. A-2s,Synthetic Lanes, Auto-Scoring, 13,000 s/fBuilding, 2 Acres, All Equipment. $950K; $50KDown; 5% Interest. (775) 867-5551 or Email:oasisbowlcasino@yahoo.com.

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“There’s Only One Better Buy inBonds … War Bonds!” It was 1944,and WWII was in full stride. Buying war bonds was thepatriotic thing to do and, over the course of the war, 85million Americans purchased bonds totaling approximately$185 million.

That’s not the only ‘bond’ in this ad. Kentucky Tavern toutsbeing ‘The Aristocrat of Bonds.’ More history as ‘Bottled inBond,’ boldly printed on the label, refers to the Bottled in

Bond Act of 1897 in which the federal government set forth regulationsby which American-made liquor would be aged and bottled—aproduct of one distillation season, by one distiller, and at one distillery.

Let’s not stop there! Tchotchkes!!! Bowling tchotchkes. Cigarettelighters and holders and drink cozies all ensconced in bowlingparaphernalia. So, here we are--an invitation to be patriotic and buywar bonds. Then, settle in with a relaxing libation and a good book,followed by…but, of course, bowling! ❖

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