AWESOME!!! to see this. My father used to be a pin boy and described setting pins exactly the way it's being done in this video. Amazing to see the old ball return de-accelerator working too. Check out my mini bowling lanes if you're looking for a lane in your house but don't have the room for full size lanes. www.minibowlinglanes.com

@tweeleaf

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Phil! Big fan.

@coasterp2199

3 жыл бұрын

@@tweeleaf Thank you.

That is a beautiful sight !! You don’t find a bowling alley nowadays looking this good !

That is a really amazing place, and that smell of old wood fixtures. It really is vintage, one of a kind place.

Being a bowler for ten years on a league, really enjoyed this video! My how times have changed in the bowling industry!

This was one of my favorite times we had making a video... You did a awesome job on the video slow down and reverse then sped up I looked like a penguin walking down the lanes lol...Great job..love the music too

@martyjones9374

4 жыл бұрын

Great find Mike, love that place. Looks so fun!!

When I was a kid they would pay us .15 a game to sit back there and reset the pins. Great way to earn some candy money.

@restierosales6093

3 жыл бұрын

Do you oil the lanes, just like same oiling they do on professional bowling lanes.

@meerkat8090

2 жыл бұрын

@@restierosales6093 back then oiling the lane wasn’t as common and they typically used less oil

MARVELOUS. Love the whole place. Mike you did good finding that one. My brother and his wife were into it big time in the 60s 70s. Had huge trophys ..

that was cool! now I want to go bowling!!! I love the old bar too! Looked like a tin ceiling. All the woodwork in the old buildings is beautiful! Thanks!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

It was tin!

The bowling alley is soooo amazing. What a blast! The bar is so beautiful and love all the antiques! Great to be able to rent this!!!Awesome Mike found this!!!

That is such a cool location. The video is excellent and this would be a cool creator meetup spot

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

If you or someone sets it up, I'd definitely go back.

@cymraegaussie

4 жыл бұрын

You guys should have a mini-tournament amongst the creators. The grand prize can be the bragging rights to being the best bowler in the group :-)

@mrsmithnet

4 жыл бұрын

That is a great idea!

I have been to one of these. When I was of pre-school age my parents used to bowl at a place like this. I went with them and set in those type audience seats. At that time there were pinboys who used to sit above the pins and would set them back up after someone bowled. I used to get a bottle of Orange pop and was not allowed to go where the the players sat. I can't believe that one of those alleys still exists. I grew up in Western Pa. Washington County near WVa state line. I never thought I would miss Pa., but now I do at age 71. I live in SC and wish I was back in Pa. Thanks for this and all your other videos. I also enjoyed the presidential video from Old Forge. Take care and keep producing these great videos.

@JPVideos81

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy the content

Jay, We had the Pines Maple ways in my home town of Lakewood, back in the mid fifties. I used to be a pin boy, you got 10 cents and the alley got 15, or the other way around. The pin spikes went higher than the ones in those alleys. Easier to load the pins. There were more lanes and some of the bigger kids could set two alleys quickly. They also had duck pins and candle pins.There was a walkway along the alley edge and a platform you could sit on above the pit. There were also pinball machines where you could win money, 5 cents per so any points. A different era, but those alleys bring back a lot of memories. Thanks, Rik Spector

@harryhall5092

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo pinball machines!

@rikspector

4 жыл бұрын

@@harryhall5092 Right!, I couldn't remember what they were called.:) Cheers, Rik Spector

My Dad who is 93 was a pin setter in a similar place in Wi.

Now that is a blast from the past! Fun video JP and Mike.

What a treat this was, stepping back in time and visiting a piece of history. I was a "pin chaser" long ago, in a slightly more automated facility. So this was especially fascinating to see. Thank you for sharing !

So neat guys, I am going on 72 years young and have been around bowling alleys all my life being my dad was in the jukebox business and we had arcade equipment and jukes in them. I have made bowling pin lamps and have a pin from the bowling place in my home town. I have always wondered why the holes in the bottom of the pins and now I know why. Thanks for showing, I really loved the video and such a neat place! By the way the jukebox in the video is an AMI Rowe R90 year 1986 definitely newer than the place is!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing

Great Video. I live in Shohola. They just had the Winter Olympics another Rohman's Annual event. My 89 year old Step Father set pins as a kid.

That place is cool!! It’s always fun to hang out with the two of you!!

That place is CRAZY COOL!!Love vintage! That bar & seats, awesome. Have never seen bowling on a top floor. Ball return really neat. Price is great. I am so ready to bowl, look out gutter here I come! Lol. Great to see Mike. So much fun watching!! :)

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

👍😁💙

Doing this place is freaking incredible!! Awesome find on this one mike. I'm glad it was preserved. Who would damage of a place like that with thier name on the ceiling though?? . Unfortunately, I can't say that it surprises me.😥

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Not far from NY. Worth renting it for an hour.

@richdiscoveries

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 I may look into that, really is a cool looking place.

This is one of your coolest locations I’ve seen! Although I’ve heard of them, I’ve never seen a manual bowling alley before. Thanks for bringing this amazing location to us!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

That was Great Fun guys ..looks like you enjoyed yourselves..Thanks for sharing!!!😁👍👍👍

WOW! VERY impressive place! I like seeing old fashioned things. I like the phone booth, the bar but mostly the bowling alley! There definitely is some history in that place! Awesome video!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

You don't see places like this everyday.

WOW! You just gave me a blast from the past. I had forgotten that when I was in middle school in the 70's (oops, I'm showing my age!!!) we had a bowling alley like that in the basement of our gymnasium. We would take turns staying in the back setting up the pins. Really cool location. I enjoyed watching you and Mike!!!

This is by far one of the coolest things I've seen. I need to go here in person.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

It was a blast and a good workout.

Beautiful place for the times

Mike did it again with another superb find, what an awesome place. I really loved the look of the alley with the polished lanes and it's unique with how you have to set your own pins and the ball return. The bar area downstairs looks beautiful too and I bet it fills up come the weekend and it has a great atmosphere too. A very cool place, thanks for sharing, now to get Cliff and RJ there with you both I'm sure it would be a scream. xx

Hey Adam! I'm on top of you! (LOL) When I was a child & lived Up State New York we had a bowling alley where guys sat on top of boards above the pins and their job was to reset the pins and roll the balls back. That's how they did it back then. Behind the tables/chairs, everyone had to score their own games but they had a snack bar with stools and a jute box.

This was great fun. Such a beautiful place. The alley was built in 1941 in what was originally a dining room. The original inn burned to the ground and this one was built in 1875.

Awesome, you guys bowl great looked like a lot of fun! 😀👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

This was my best game. especially since i didnt keep score 😁

My sister and I when we lived in Brooklyn New York we would go bowling after we got off duty as nurses and we would bowl till 4 o’clock in the morning - we weren’t the best bowlers but by 4 AM we were simply dropping them but it was a lot of fun. I would love to go to this place because this was really neat thank you for sharing 😁👍💕

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

With that much bowling you must have been really good.

@elnabjelland-hughes8172

4 жыл бұрын

I started out as a good bowler but by the time 4 AM came around my hands were weak I was dropping the ball 😂 My father was a champion bowler for his league - he could have gone pro but he wasn’t interested - he taught me everything he knew about being a good bowler and I taught my sister - we challenged each other at every game and never gave up until the two of us were exhausted 😂😂

That is just way too cool👍🏻 Awesome place!!

Awesome. I grew up in a bowling alley. I remember going from the old wooden returns to newer ones. Loved it.

Wow, What a fantastic show, the videography, the music, the mixing. 10 out of 10. Nice work JP and Mike. The close-up of the Pins being struck, different angles, this video just works for me. Thanks for the great content.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

This was really COOL !! Loved it good to know how it was done before ball returns !! The bar was a amazing site as well !! Glad to see something this historic is still in use !! Blows me away it on the second floor !! Imagine the noise downstairs in the bar wow !! Really great video big thumbs up way up ! 👍👍👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

The ball return was my favorite part lol

That was amazing! I love the vintage and classic. And the Workout!!!

This is brilliant - very cool! So much fun. How wonderful that they are able to keep it running and open to the public.

@cymraegaussie

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and great choice of music :-)

I’ve never seen anything like it! What a unique find. Showed my children who were totally captivated as it was so foreign to them. Imagine having to set up your own pins? Lol. Great video. Thanks for sharing!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Its a workout

WATCH VIDEO, READ AS MANY MSG & REPLY AS U CAN. Okay this is way too cool! I had a couple of questions but read others comments and had them answered. Ended up with a couple of different questions, but kept reading all the posts and responses and ended up having a lot more knowledge of Vintage & Vintage Entertainment than I started my day off with! Some questions I have had for many years. Some I was reminded of/some just came to realization by reading all the posts and responses. Now to handle this situation correctly. I am heading to my Calendar to set reminders to come back and read more of them, every so often. Because I feel like I would be doing myself a Major Disservice by not! Big Thanks to both of you JP & Mike!

Very cool!! Thanks for sharing this neat place.

That was wild!! I loved the vintage bar downstairs!

It definitely looks like 1-hour well spent. Great video and thanks for bringing us back in time.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

👍

Once having been an avid bowler, I’d love to try that place out!! Such nostalgia!! Great find guys!! Thanks for sharing!!

Looks like you 2 were having lots of fun! Looks like a lot of work, going back and forth! I'm not a good bowler, but I have fun when I do go! (I always come in last place!😊) Well, that was a great find! Thanks for sharing! 👍

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Im lucky if i even place lol

That was a cool place! Thanks for posting!

Love bowling! Too fun! Beautiful place! Great find!

Thanks for sharing. This looks like fun ....and a great workout 😄. I love the diversity of your videos. You’ll always get a thumbs up from me!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

💙😊

I always wondered how the pin setters knew where to place the pins. My dad was an great bowler. He would get frustrated and throw his ball into the river. Obviously you know how much I loved this video!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

😊

Mike did a great job on finding the place!!! Jay you did a marvelous job on filming!!! That looks like so much fun!!! I don't even know how long it's been since I bowled!!! Wonderful job guys!!!

Oh how cool! What an awesome place, a manual bowling alley, how neat, the whole place looks so cool! I love antiques and anything vintage! Looks like you guys had a great time! Super fun video!

I could smell the place just watching the video lol. Love it! It’s beautiful and so unique. Thanks for sharing.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Felt like i was back in time.

Looks like I know where I'm taking the wife this weekend. Thanks for another great video JP.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Hope you bring someone to set the pins lol

Looks like you guys had loads of fun !! What a neat thing to see. Thank you!!

This was totally awesome. 😃🖐🏼💯

That was a great find! And I love the bar area, I can just see it in its heyday!! Great video JP and Mike!! Awesome find!!!!

Great location it's really nice to see something like this kept in that state still after so long. It reminds me of the final scene in there will be blood in the alley him saying "I'm done".

Wow you two! ❤Loved this so much!! Wish we lived closer !

Roaring twenties music (felt like doing the Charleston), vintage bowling, the coolest bar ever, shared with a good friend: Priceless!! Terrific find!!!!! Thx

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

👍😉

As a league bowler with an average of 190 and a complete fanatic of bowling in general, I approve of this video! This place has been on my bucket list for a long long time. I assume I couldnt use my equipment (bowling balls) here as they probably dont oil the lanes at all and even my plastic and rubber ball would hook right into the left gutter. LOL Still... this is freakin awesome!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Just use their balls and have a blast bowling back in time.

@LowEnd31st

Жыл бұрын

I hope they would oil it sometimes or else the lanes would be ruined

Very interesting. Wonder if that place was "speakeasy" in the 20s? They probably had pin boys back in the day. No running back and forth.

That was fun watching you two have fun and the music you put with it was perfect!

Awesome! I’ll take Henry there because he loves bowling!

This is wicked cool. I think there's a real old one in Milwaukee too. But back then pin boys. Also, no reactive equipment. Lacquer lanes. And very heavy solid maple pins. Now 300 happens frequently. Back then 190 was really good. I love seeing history like this. Time capsule.

Enjoyed the video, it looked like a lot fun, glad you both enjoyed yourselves.

How cool I s that bowling alley! Love it!

OMGSH! I would love to bowl there! Fun times!

What a beautiful bowling alley and bar area! I love the 1920s, so this was especially super cool to watch!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

💙

4:31 lever funny! 😂

I loved everything about this. I never knew they had manual ones. Pretty awesome. The whole place is.i love history especially vintage. Watching you and Mikes was so much fun. Thanks for the memories

Looks like fun!

Beautiful. There was a house like this in Galesburg, Illinois when I grew up. The lanes were the same...but if memory serves me correctly there were only two lanes. Thanks for sharing!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for checking it out

That was awesome!! Thank you so much for documenting this place!!

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

My pleasure

What a cool and fun video! This place is amazing and truly a treasure to find. Love something like this. Thanks for sharing.

Reminds me of a Tom and Jerry cartoon episode titled ' Bowling Alley Cat' and the layout is really similar to this

I was surprised, many years ago (1970s?), to find that in the early days ballrooms were often built on upper floors (sometimes with _springs_ under the hardwood floors!), but I've never before seen a bowling alley upstairs. I never got involved with bowling, although both my uncle and aunt (brother and sister) were on bowling teams, in leagues, and my eldest brother and a couple of his friends worked as pin-spotters in one of our local alleys (we had two or three---in a village of less than a thousand people). I'm more familiar with bars, particularly during my sports car racing days (I invented a mixed drink!), though I didn't know until later in the time that bars often had the best food, at reasonable prices. A larger percentage served pizza, some of it damn _good_ pizza! I do recognize that bowling is a good game for families. Good video, guys!

This was a great find! I love the vintage look of the bowling alley, looks so beautiful! I'm glad that you guys had fun! Thank you so much for the share JP! :D

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Lots of fun

How cool was this truly one of a kind thanks for sharing. Great 👍 video

My mom love to bowl and had her own bowling ball

Little town that I spent my summers in, had 6 lane bowling alley. Same set up as this one. Uncle worked for them a couple of summers, 'pin and ball' boy. He got hit of times from strong bowlers that would send that ball flying down the alley. Great fun video.

Tht is AWESOME!!!!THANKS 4 SHARING

Love the video, JP. Love the bowling.

That place is awesome great find love it JP

Great beautiful place Mike and Jay👍❤

super cool.! and wow that ball stop mechanism is still as solid as a rock. they sure don't make things like they use to. - i'm grateful for today's automatic ball return and pin set up. thanks for posting.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

This was fun, but a heck of a workout.

Loved watching the video. Beautiful sight.

Omg! How dam cool is that place! Wow! I love to bowl...that would be so awesome to bowl there. Love the backward granny ball...lol. Wow thanks for sharing this was too 😎..

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Backward worked 👍

@catherineengle4196

4 жыл бұрын

@@JPVideos81 😂😂😂😂

That's like a place trapped in time. Even the bar is really vintage and cool looking. I think l read that before automatic pin setters, they used to have pin boys that would sit above and reset the pins for you and return the ball. Maybe this place had them at one time.

I was a pin chaser here back in the early 80's. I lived in the building next door. If you were fast you made good tips.

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Nice family show. Love your channel! I always watch it. Keep up the great job...

wow NICE FIND

We had a bowling here in San Antonio, the pins were set manually, but bowled 9 pins. They had pin setters. I bowled there in the 70s. A lot of the small communities also had these lanes. Don't bowl anymore so not sure if small! Communities still have this. The one here closed. It was called Turner Club.

Great stuff !!!!!!!!!!!!

This was truly a fun and interesting video! I love the pictures of the bar area and that bowling alley area is so cool!

That is a fun video. Looks like you both had a blast!

JP, what an awesome and cool bowling alley! Really enjoyed your video!

Wow, how much fun does that look, really jealous, such a great place.

Awesome video thank you

This has to be coolest video i have seen so from from you guys keep up the great work wow :D

@JPVideos81

4 жыл бұрын

👍💙

That was way too cool that was the first bowling alley I seen like that I really loved the video

Yes cool footage! ❤️