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"1930s" - 37 Total Result(s)
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A BIG TOURNAMENT IN THE BIG APPLE
Before there was the FIQ, there was the IBA, the International Bowling Association (not to be confused with the earlier American group of the same name). The IBA’s 4th International Bowling Championsh ...
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A SPARTAN TEAM
Teams at ABC tournaments in the 1930s were generally composed of five men (women were not allowed in the ABC at this time). Seen here is one team, called Spartan, that competed in the 1930 ABC Tournam ...
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A TINY TENPIN TOY
Americans turned to toys and games for home use during the Great Depression, when spending money was scarce. A tabletop mechanical bowling alley could be the perfect solution for a cash-strapped famil ...
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ABC EMPLOYEES ON THE CLOCK
Tournament participants weren’t the only people at these major events. American Bowling Congress employees, seen here at the 1935 ABC Tournament in Syracuse, New York, were ever present to ensure the ...
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ABC TOURNAMENT IN A TENT
American Bowling Congress tournaments were always spectacles to behold. Though most tournaments were held in existing bowling centers, this was not always the case. In some years, temporary lanes were ...
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ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
Bowling teams could be made up of any group of people: family members, friends, neighbors and even coworkers. This group of ABC coworkers formed the ABC Office Team to compete at the 1939 ABC Tourname ...
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AN ELECTRIC PERFORMANCE
Bowling champions get trophies too! Fife Electric Supply Company of Detroit emerged victorious in the 1939 ABC Tournament, held in Cleveland, Ohio. Shooting a combined score of 3,151, the team had the ...
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ANOTHER ROUND
Bowling’s beer leagues were enormously popular during the early-to mid-twentieth century. These leagues often drew in local sponsors, as was the case with the Monarch Beer team in Chicago. This partic ...
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BIG MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS
For those unable to attend the 1936 American Bowling Congress’s world championship in Indianapolis, radio station NBC broadcast the tournament nationwide and five newsreel companies sent crews to docu ...
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BLUE RIBBON BOWLERS
As bowling became more popular in the 1920s and 1930s, many companies began to sponsor teams to enter ABC tournaments. One of the more successful teams was that of Pabst Blue Ribbon. One of the Pabst ...
