News on the Rose Bowl Lanes

[Conan71]

I never bowled at the Rose Bowl. But I did go and see Al and Peg Bundy bowl there. I was in a league at the old Harvard Lanes. Fun time to be a kid.

Where was Harvard Lanes? I'm drawing a complete blank.

[Hoss]

Where was Harvard Lanes? I'm drawing a complete blank.

Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.

[DolfanBob]

Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.

We probably bowled against each other. That is the exact ages that I was when my parents took us there.

[Hoss]

We probably bowled against each other. That is the exact ages that I was when my parents took us there.

Maybe...I was 8 in 1975 and remember starting my bowling there.  I always remembered the split 32 lane setup (2 sets of 16 a side).  I also remember VERY vividly being there when the Shuttle Enterprise did her landing test (after being released from the top of a 747) and watching it on the little 12 inch b/w TV they had at the shoe counter.  Wow.

[Hoss]

Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.

Actually, I'm mistaken Conan...it's the northWEST corner of Pine and Harvard.  The building still stands.  You can tell by looking at it that it was a bowling alley.

http://goo.gl/maps/EzvFQ

http://goo.gl/maps/BvLGI

[rdj]

A little nugget in today's TW sports section stated this facility was now owned (or at least operated) by Bill Blankenship's brother and another family member.  Apparently they've purchase the old Reynolds Center basketball floor.  They've renamed the facility a really long name that I don't recall.

[DolfanBob]

Wasn't it a furniture store for many years after the bowling alley?

[Hoss]

Wasn't it a furniture store for many years after the bowling alley?

Yes.