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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1976
Page
5
Local women recall the 1930s and 1940s not as hardship years but as the era they first became active in bowling. They remember peanut butter smeared balls, inconveniences, and surprises, yet these were the days they would not have missed for anything.
Washington and Columbus Junction women recall bowling before sanctions and modern gear. From 1938, three lanes in the Commercial Club basement to 25th anniversary in 1963 with WIBC sanction in 1951 and a 700 series by Lucy Smith in 1974, the group fondly remembers six initial teams, colorful outfits, and pinsetters who ate sandwiches between frames.
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