Post #697578 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Oct 26, 2013 1:31 PM

Thanks Anders - What a great A-frame!

I found this late East Indies Room menu on a Bowling history site:

...where it says this:

"In 1957, the year Java Lanes opened at 3800 E. PCH, eight alleys existed in Long Beach, including the Belmont and the Beachcomber (no relation to this paper, but certainly our choice for a game or two) at 25 Chestnut, downtown. Counting the Beachcomber, there were three downtown alleys, two near PCH in the central city and one in Northtown."

Never heard about the "Beachcomber Bowl" before! Anybody here got anything on it?

In the meantime, we break for this little commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztu1ZYQPi4

And do not forget to visit the Covina Bowl, kids,, the last A-frame bowling alley in the Southland still standing!:

Should you be disappointed by its interior, drop in at the nearby Clearman's Northwoods Inn, the largest of its kind, and the last with the customary nude paintings - now relegated to the back rooms