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"1920s" - 16 Total Result(s)
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KEGLERS CASH IN
Have you ever seen a bowler on a dollar? When Germany faced an economic crisis and currency shortage after World War I, cities printed their own form of emergency currency, known as “Notgeld.” Many no ...
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PASSING THE TIME WITH RIP VAN WINKLE
Washington Irving’s fictional character “Rip Van Winkle” misses the entire American Revolution when he helps a mysterious stranger carry a keg of liquor up a mountain and stumbles on a thunderous game ...
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READY TO ROLL
Roll ’em! Thanks to the Brinkman Engineering Co. of Dayton, Ohio, you didn’t have to leave the house in order to enjoy a good round of bowling. The Bowling Alley #500 features a mechanized bowler that ...
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RECORDS IN FROG TOWN
The 1922 American Bowling Congress tournament in Toledo, Ohio, shattered records set in 1921 by the annual tournament in Buffalo, furthering a long-running rivalry between Steel Belt cities. Toledo wa ...
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TOURNAMENT IN CHICAGO
The 24th annual American Bowling Congress tournament in Chicago in 1924 saw a record-high 2,131 teams competing.
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WOOD EQUIPMENT IN THE 1920s
The experience of bowling in the 1920s was very different than it is today. Among the many differences, ball returns, as seen here in at a bowling alley in Menasha, Wisconsin, were constructed out of ...
