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Bowled Over: A Roll Down Memory Lane (Hardcover)

by Gideon & Bosker-Lencek, B. Bosker (Author) "LONG BEFORE BOWLING CHAMP DON CARTER'S locked-elbow, free-shoulder approach revolutionized the game in the 1950s, humans were rolling balls at standing objects ..." (more)
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Bowled Over harks back to an earlier era when a night on the town meant heading to a gleaming bowling emporium for stiff competition, fine cuisine, and fancy cocktails. Packed with chapters on bowling's history, fashion, champs, pinboys, and alley architecture and featuring over 100 vintage images culled from the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame's archives, this colorful compendium is a punchy tribute to the ever-popular tradition and culture of bowling.


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Gideon Bosker is an award-winning author and cultural historian whose interests range from bowling, barbecue, and beaches to wallpaper, fabrics, and mid-century design. Previous Books: He is the co-author of Beaches, Atomic Cocktails, Patio Daddy-O, Fabulous Fabrics, Greetings From the French Riviera, and High Balls, High Heels, all published by Chronicle Books. Bianca Lencek-Bosker is an avid observer of and participant in the world of popular culture. A collector of vintage perfume bottles and accomplished, equestrian, she prefers to bowl to a good beat wearing glittery shoes. This is her first book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Bowled but not quite over., Nov 23 2002
By Robin Benson - See all my reviews
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A pleasant enough short history of bowling, giving just enough detail to be interesting without getting too technical though in some cases I would have appreciated more information, in particular the development of the automatic pinsetter (surely the one item that pushed the sport into the big-time) and the architecture of bowling lanes, the work of the architectural company Powers, Daly & DeRosa helped pull in the customers to the flamboyant lanes of the fifties.

The book is a neat square shape (seven by seven inches) and well produced with over a hundred pictures but before you order your copy you have to know that (amazingly) none of the pictures have captions! Some of them clearly are just graphics to help the design along but I counted fifty-two that really should have some explanation for the reader, for instance page eleven shows actor Telly Savalas just about to bowl, when was it taken and where? Page forty-seven shows the outside of the streamline Tower Bowl in San Diego (designed by Charlie Lee) I think readers should be told this in a caption, page ninety-six has a bowling championship in progress, where, when? I'm surprised that the publisher did not pick up this rather fundamental flaw in the books presentation.

A book I enjoyed more than 'Bowled Over' is 'Bowl-O-Rama' by Thomas Steele, essentially a visual history with hundreds of pictures (all with captions) and short introductions to the nine chapters. Oh and the cover shows part of a bowling ball with three holes punched right though the stiff cardboard.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Bowled but not quite over., Nov 17 2002
By Robin Benson - See all my reviews
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A pleasant enough short history of bowling, giving just enough detail to be interesting without getting too technical though in some cases I would have appreciated more information, in particular the development of the automatic pinsetter (surely the one item that pushed the sport into the big-time) and the architecture of bowling lanes, the work of the architectural company Powers, Daly & DeRosa helped pull in the customers to the flamboyant lanes of the fifties.

The book is a neat square shape (seven by seven inches) and well produced with over a hundred pictures but before you order your copy you have to know that (amazingly) none of the pictures have captions! Some of them clearly are just graphics to help the design along but I counted fifty-two that really should have some explanation for the reader, for instance page eleven shows actor Telly Savalas just about to bowl, when was it taken and where? Page forty-seven shows the outside of the streamline Tower Bowl in San Diego (designed by Charlie Lee) I think readers should be told this in a caption, page ninety-six has a bowling championship in progress, where, when? I'm surprised that the publisher did not pick up this rather fundamental flaw in the books presentation.

A book I enjoyed more than 'Bowled Over' is 'Bowl-O-Rama' by Thomas Steele, essentially a visual history with hundreds of pictures (all with captions) and short introductions to the nine chapters. Oh and the cover shows part of a bowling ball with three holes punched right though the stiff cardboard.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific!, Nov 2 2002
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I love this snappy, informative book with its vintage photographs, evocative memorabilia,great layout, and fact-filled text. The authors cover all aspects of the bowling phenomenon -- from the history of the sport to fashion, technology, and
architecture, and helped me understand the important social and cultural role of this sport. Two things really stayed with me: the authors' ability to connect bowling to American social history; and the fantastic design. This book puts me in a great mood! Intelligently written -- without being high brow--and full of entertaining anecdotes, Bowled Over makes a great present for bowlers and fans of popular culture.
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