Willow Grove Park Bowling Lanes, Willow Grove, PA (other) - Locating Tiki

B bigbrotiki Tiki Socialite Tiki Island, above the Silverlake Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 11621	B bigbrotiki Posted posted on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 8:13 AM On 2009-11-09 20:03, Mo-Eye wrote: I can't believe for being the largest bowling alley in the world that there isn't more info and photo of this place on the web. On 2009-11-09 21:02, Tiki Shaker wrote: Wow, I'm guessing there isn't much info on this place because it only lasted 14 years? Just like it was the case with Tiki Style, which came and went equally quickly, and had been forgotten and relegated to the trash heap. When this flamboyant commercial architecture (Googie) fell out of favor, it was considered tacky and outdated, and people still have not recognized it as ART. But in a hundred years from now it will be considered akin to Art Nouveaux, Greek temples or in this case, even the pyramids. I mean look at these things, built in every-day, middle American, middle-of-the-road communities!: These were people's TEMPLES of leisure! Show me a mall today that matches that kind of imaginative architecture. That's why people have to go and dig up the architects while they are still alive, and get the renderings and paper ephemera while they are still around. Found this ashtray on the web, which uses the architectural rendering:

On 2009-11-09 20:03, Mo-Eye wrote:
I can't believe for being the largest bowling alley in the world that there isn't more info and photo of this place on the web.

On 2009-11-09 21:02, Tiki Shaker wrote:
Wow, I'm guessing there isn't much info on this place because it only lasted 14 years?

Just like it was the case with Tiki Style, which came and went equally quickly, and had been forgotten and relegated to the trash heap. When this flamboyant commercial architecture (Googie) fell out of favor, it was considered tacky and outdated, and people still have not recognized it as ART. But in a hundred years from now it will be considered akin to Art Nouveaux, Greek temples or in this case, even the pyramids. I mean look at these things, built in every-day, middle American, middle-of-the-road communities!:

These were people's TEMPLES of leisure! Show me a mall today that matches that kind of imaginative architecture.
That's why people have to go and dig up the architects while they are still alive, and get the renderings and paper ephemera while they are still around.

Found this ashtray on the web, which uses the architectural rendering:

Post #493039 by bigbrotiki on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 8:13 AM