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Setting pins
elubsme
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Ennybudy else set pins at the bowling alley? We sat on the ledge until the ball came in, dropped the pins in their slot, put the ball on the return and hit the button. Then jumped back up on the ledge! I think we got 35 cents a game, but not sure. 1956 was a long time ago.....................
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In 1956 I was still about a year away from arriving into the world
Obvious I have heard about pin setters but never met anyaone who did or at least said so it was a few years before my time
At least you were making some cash on your own good for you
How many kids would even do it now
by the time I went bowling the new fangled pin set machines had taken your job just like A .I . taking so many now But still had to keep score on paper
As a kidi i went bowling a few times i was maybe 11 or 12 yrs old and that's because back then cereal boxes i think maybe sugar crisp For one
had a cut out coupon for a free game on the side of the box
.Get a game free i really dont remember how much each costits pay i know it was cheap but even cheap was too much money for my parents to support bowling for me
My first real job was at 16 yrs old it was at a local grocery store 2 blocks fromy patemts hoise I started at a whole 1.45 a hour then went to 1.65 a few weeks later due to the min wage.
one of the two bowling alleys in town was two blocks from our house
But even then me and a couple new buddies just went to play pinball a big fad at the time or pool they had a few of the quarter a game tables
I was bad at both and bad at bowling so I was consistent But had fun then cars and girls came into my life and well that was the end of every thing else lol
i remember gas 15 cents
I remember gas at 1.59, oh wait that was only 3 years ago! WOW, elections really do have consequences! FJB!
Just sayin'
I remember pin setters at the bowling alley on the Navy base where my dad was stationed in the late 50s.I think it was Charleston,but it may have been Norfolk.
I can vaguely recall seeing a human pin setter at some two-lane bowling alley sometime in the 50s. The guy (sadly) was a Black youth and the bowlers took great delight in trying to break his legs by rolling a ball while he was standing down on the lane. I was sickened by that even then.
My parents were huge bowling addicts, especially my Mom. She was secretary on a league until very late in her life. I despised the game.
I was too young in 1956, but three years later I worked for the local Coke company. I cleaned bottles, moved cases, sold coke at auction. I got paid .35 an hour. I worked 4 hours on Saturday. Big money.
It was one of the jobs I had in college in 1956.
Ba Gosh!! Yer oldern me!!!!
The only load I carried in '56 was in my diaper! 😲
My brother in law owned a small town 12 lane Bowling alley for several years. It was a modern set up but the place which was built back in the early 1940's still had the padded ledges where pin setters would sit before automation took over. The back room of the place reminded me of King Tut's tomb, with all of the old antique equipment socked away there. There were a couple old cigarette machines still loaded with long forgotten brands and priced at a quarter. A true time capsule for sure!