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| Date: | 09 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the officers of Madison Women's Municipal Bowling League. The league bowls at the Bowl-A-Vard Lanes. From left to right are: Mrs. Pierce ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Down-lane view of Isaiah Pyant, member of C.I.O., bowling. A few men are visible in the background walking past, looking on and sitting on a bench. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Nat Ferral and Vernon Brady, CIO bowling team captains, pose for a picture sitting on a bench at a bowling alley. Ferrel was captain of the all African Ame... |
| Date: | 12 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of league high scorers, Marie Geisler and Val Schwoegler. They bowled in the West Side Business Men's Association Auxiliary League at Schwoeglers ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Larry Elliott (left), Jim Anderson, Donald Carpenter, Bob Nielsen, and Richard Hoebel watch as Bill Hoebel tries his luck bowling with a boy-size bowling b... |
| Date: | 05 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Captains of teams that won first and second half titles in the association's two ten-pin leagues stage a tug of war for one of the red jersey caps that are... |
| Date: | 01 20 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of the older bowlers of the Knights of Columbus league at the Dream Lanes on Cottage Grove Road on Madison's east side. Seated, from left, are: Pet... |
| Date: | 04 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Bowling champions congratulate Vic Koss on a 300 game rolled at the Bowl-A-Vard Lanes Major Bowling League. It was his come-back after suffering a heart at... |
| Date: | 01 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Joe Wilman (right), of the Brunswick Advisory Staff of Bowling Champions, diagrams a point during the school for bowling alley proprietors and managers as ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison bowler Doris Hanson instructs a group of youths 9-15 years of age during the first class of the "School of Bowling" held at the Bowl-A-Vard. |
| Date: | 08 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Schwoegler's Lanes summer Three-Man loop bowling league has eight teams that bowl a six-week schedule. Mel and Bill Schwoegler, father and son, co-manage S... |
| Date: | 01 30 1987 |
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| Description: | A woman smiles for the camera as she poses with her bowling ball. The caption reads, "Bertha Eichelberger bowls in five leagues every week." She is wearing... |
| Date: | 09 06 1960 |
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| Description: | The 1960-1961 Madison bowling season begins at leagues around Madison. Members of the Greg's Five bowling team shown are (seated), Gary Adler and (standing... |
| Date: | 12 10 1960 |
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| Description: | Present for the grand opening of Burr Oaks Bowl are, standing, left to right: John Iverson, Connie Schwoegler, and Mayor Ivan Nestingen. At the right are f... |
| Date: | 03 12 1961 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of seven people at Stoughton's Badger Bowl bowling alley grand opening. At center wearing a bowling shirt is Harry Smith, 1960 national All-... |
| Date: | 05 08 1961 |
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| Description: | Bowling officials and bowlers gather at the "Champion of Champions" annual bowling tournament at the Plaza Alleys in Madison. Shown seated (left to right... |
| Date: | 05 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Bowl-A-Vard junior team wins the Madison Junior League bowling league by defeating the Burr Oaks Bowl team at a roll off at Burr Oaks bowling lanes. Team m... |
| Date: | 05 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Burr Oaks Bowl junior bowling team comes in second place in the Madison Junior League bowling league losing to the Bowl-A-Vard team at a roll off at the Bu... |
| Date: | 11 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Rusty Lunning, front, and D.C. Pressentin sitting in their new Monona Village Lanes 12-lane bowling establishment. |
| Date: | 12 17 1964 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Zimmerman, age 6, is looking over a polyvinyl Christmas tree at the Dream Lanes bowling alley on Cottage Grove Road. Green polyvinyl is the latest th... |
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