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Summary

This begins a new album on a lost art, the sport of duckpin bowling in Brunswick.

In this photo are a group of kids, who were top performers in the Bantam division at the Brunswick Bowling Center on Souder Road in 1961 or 1962. Shown here are:

(L-R) Marty Whittington, Kay Hebb (Carter), Marsha Hebb (Lantz), Mike Cooper and Sam Compher

How many remember good times at the bowling alley? Please share your stories and photos!

(Photo courtesy of Kay "The Mighty Mite" Hebb Carter)

The Hebbs were arguably the first family of Brunswick bowling in the 1960s. I'm sure everybody from all those generations who remember Mrs. Nadine Hebb keeping score and cooking up all those great Pizzaburgers at the snack bar would agree. Getting hungry just thinking about it....Peter

Michael Cullen: I worked there during my junior and senior years of high school sweeping lanes, repairing and unjamming the pinsetters. My mother Dorothy "Dot" Cullen ran the snack bar and Jim Schamel was the manager.

Linda Kidwiler Henson: Anyone remember bowling in the Dutch Doubles? I would bowl with my Dad, Bill Kidwiler. He was one of the smoothest bowlers. You never heard the ball hit the floor.