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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. On the left is a bowling alley/billiard parlor, a real estate/insurance business, and a livery/garage. On the next block is City Hal... |
| Date: | 01 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Joe Wilman (right), of the Brunswick Advisory Staff of Bowling Champions, diagrams a point during the school for bowling alley proprietors and managers as ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison bowler Doris Hanson instructs a group of youths 9-15 years of age during the first class of the "School of Bowling" held at the Bowl-A-Vard. |
| Date: | 08 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Schwoegler's Lanes summer Three-Man loop bowling league has eight teams that bowl a six-week schedule. Mel and Bill Schwoegler, father and son, co-manage S... |
| Date: | 01 30 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman smiles for the camera as she poses with her bowling ball. The caption reads, "Bertha Eichelberger bowls in five leagues every week." She is wearing... |
| Date: | 09 06 1960 |
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| Description: | The 1960-1961 Madison bowling season begins at leagues around Madison. Members of the Greg's Five bowling team shown are (seated), Gary Adler and (standing... |
| Date: | 10 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Helen Sundby bowls a 602 series (184, 208, 200) in the Ladies Classic League at Schwoeglers' Lanes to join the Madison 600 Club. |
| Date: | 12 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Present for the grand opening of Burr Oaks Bowl are, standing, left to right: John Iverson, Connie Schwoegler, and Mayor Ivan Nestingen. At the right are f... |
| Date: | 03 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven people at Stoughton's Badger Bowl bowling alley grand opening. At center wearing a bowling shirt is Harry Smith, 1960 national All-... |
| Date: | 05 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Bowling officials and bowlers gather at the "Champion of Champions" annual bowling tournament at the Plaza Alleys in Madison. Shown seated (left to right... |
| Date: | 05 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Bowl-A-Vard junior team wins the Madison Junior League bowling league by defeating the Burr Oaks Bowl team at a roll off at Burr Oaks bowling lanes. Team m... |
| Date: | 05 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Burr Oaks Bowl junior bowling team comes in second place in the Madison Junior League bowling league losing to the Bowl-A-Vard team at a roll off at the Bu... |
| Date: | 11 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Rusty Lunning, front, and D.C. Pressentin sitting in their new Monona Village Lanes 12-lane bowling establishment. |
| Date: | 12 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th... |
| Date: | 01 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Bowlers are asked to donate 50 cents to enter the annual March of Dimes bowling competition. Shown left to right, are: Chuck Atkins, Maureen Richman, Lori ... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a female bowling team named "Hertel Store Lemons." They women are wearing matching peach-colored bowling shirts, and four of the shirts h... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Jim Sletten (in dark glasses) is holding onto a guide rail with his left hand while holding a bowling ball in hi right hand as he accepts assistance from L... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Jim Sletten, operator of the cigar stand in the State Office Building, fires the heavy ball down the alley. He has 163 games to his credit. He is one of ab... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | David Buege is placing a bowling ball into the hands of his wife, Hazel Buege, who is one of about fifteen visually impaired participants who gather weekly... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Hazel Buege is holding onto a rail with her left hand, and releasing a bowling ball with her right hand towards standing bowling pins. She is one of about ... |
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