You did a fantastic job of restoration Tim. Excellent work, and it was a viewing pleasure. I was 10 years old when this happened. Great memories.

The opening theme has been stuck in my mind for many years and I didn't know where it came from...that is, until I watched this. At the time, Jack Drees was the TV play-by-play voice of St. Louis football Cardinals matches on CBS and was one year away from a similar capacity with the Chicago White Sox which moved its telecasts to WFLD starting in 1968.

@MrHmg55

5 жыл бұрын

Same thing with the theme, except I always knew where it came from and it's great to hear it again. This show used to air on Sundays in Boston and was the only sports program of any kind on in its time slot, so of course I watched every week.

@rockaway2k

5 жыл бұрын

lsmftymf That is great trivia. Drees also called Super Bowls 1 & 2 on CBS radio.

Those ball returns are cool

I bowled 1 year of league with johnny when i was 18yo back in 1984, he was old but still very good bowler. He almost NEVER had an open frame, all season long. Amazing to watch and learn from.

Wonderful. The coverage of every ball, no 'while you were away' and stopping the game to wait for advertising mid-game. Better production than subsequent TV coverage in my opinion. Great bowling too.

Takes me back to my childhood days. Thank you so much for uploading this on You Tube. If you only knew for how long I have been looking for at least one of these episodes. I remember watching these episodes plenty as a Little Boy In 1970.

Normally I would be 'ticked' that commercials were included, but seeing these old commercials reminds me of my childhood. I was ten in 1967. Thanks for this upload Tim.

@MrChristopherHaas

6 ай бұрын

they were amazing. Cigarettes and beer. Yep, that was bowling😉

@gregtowle8830

6 ай бұрын

same here , What month were you born ? I was in 8./16. /57

@oregonpatriot1570

6 ай бұрын

1/2/57

First time I seen automatic scoring on this show. Used to seeing someone handwriting the score very meticulously.

@rockaway2k

10 ай бұрын

Bill Bunetta used to have that great penmanship you saw. Very precise writing.

Wow, makes me want to run out and get some Newport Menthols and I don't even smoke!

@armorybrunotjr.3204

4 жыл бұрын

The announcer in the Newport spot is Claude Kirchner.

@bobg4657

3 жыл бұрын

@@armorybrunotjr.3204 The starting guitar riff in the Ballantine commercial sounds like Suite Judy Blues Eyes.

@yankeedoodle1963

4 ай бұрын

@@bobg4657I noticed that too. CSN probably ripped it off, it’s catchy

@bobg4657

4 ай бұрын

Stills,You Bastard! LOL@@yankeedoodle1963

Such great memories ... Thx SO much for adding the color footage of two of the classiest pros in the history of our sport 🎳

Great job! 1967 is when I first became aware of bowling. I strolled into a local bowling alley at age 7 one day and marveled at how bowlers made their shots with ball rotation and movement from right to left or left to right.

Dick Weber was a classy guy. We lived in the same neighborhood as the Weber’s. They owned the local bowling alley.

Jack Drees did a very nice job, a true broadcasting pro. For many years Fred Wolf was the commentator. He was a Detroit broadcaster who for years had a popular DJ morning show at WXYZ Radio. HE would get a leave from the radio station when he had to go and tape the shows...Wolf was the first ever broadcaster to have a "Mobile Studio" built so that he could be in a trailer and broadcast at sponsor who wanted him on their property for what is commonly known as a remote. He called it the "Wandering Wigloo" and it was built by Massey Ferguson. This was in the mid 50s and radio executives from across the nation would come to Detroit to see the studio on wheels and before you knew it, many more were built across the nation for radio stations large, medium and small!

Thank you! A classic from my childhood!

@kevinjohnson4599

2 жыл бұрын

Same here pal because this is when bowling was bowling.

The scoreboard is so cool!

@Brickbuilder128

4 жыл бұрын

NowhereFast12 I agree. Stuff was better and cooler when it was all mechanical, and no software involved.

@mikewhite735

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of how they presented vote totals on election night.

@oldiesgeek454

3 жыл бұрын

When I clicked on, I thought it was going to be an ABC Saturday afternoon broadcast.

@user-cq1ty1xe8u

3 жыл бұрын

昨晩はすすいじゃなく、

@user-cq1ty1xe8u

3 жыл бұрын

ささす

Those old commercials were awesome.

Wow.. that Beech-nut commercial.. crazy wild.

Interesting Ball Return. I have never seen one like that.

Great post! The commercials were a treat as well. I just now found this, so accept my considerably delayed thanks. 👍

Thanks 🙏🏼 for the upload... great match...

Thanks for posting Tim

RIP Johnny.

I believe "Championship Bowling" began in 1954, shot on black-and-white film, switched to color film in 1966, then went to color tape around 1968. I believe the show ran through the early seventies.

Great stuff, thanks for posting

Thanks so much for posting this. I can remember watching this as a 5 year old on WGAL channel 8 in Lancaster, PA.

@murraymall5116

7 ай бұрын

I'm from Lancaster! My Dad, ohev shalom, & I watched on WGAL! Today is his birthday. He was 93, when he died. This was a wonderful way to relive memories.

Ooooooh for ONE MORE GAME. they left me wanting MORE. one of them, if not both, were about to bowl a 300. WHAT A MATCH

Love the AMF ball return. Like all AMF gear motors are triggered by micro-switches. It's a seleniod to open that trap door. The pinsetteres work in a similar fashion where several motors are triggered by switched - where as Brunswick uses cams off of a big transmission that actuates all the functions. One motor operated a number of belts and that transmission.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

Those trap door ball returns always seemed distractingly noisy and abrupt.

Man, this takes me back!! I remember watching these color editions on an indy channel in Los Angeles during the early 70's. Jack Drees was the announcer w/ Bill Bunetta. Saturday mornings at 7am. Then I would watch The Pro Bowlers Tour at 3:30 with Chris Schenkel. Great memories! If you have anymore episodes with Jack Drees, could you please upload them? Thanks again for this!!

@rockaway2k

6 жыл бұрын

BTW, the Fred Wolf b/w broadcasts are great, too.

@rockaway2k

5 жыл бұрын

Actually, they are, too. But I did not know of host Fred Wolf until the you tube uploads. I only saw the color editions with Jack Drees back in 1974. It featured bowlers such as Tommy Tuttle, Jim Stefanich, Dave Soutar, Weber, Salvino, Ritger, Guenther, etc. Great memories.

48:33 LOVE IT!!! I could watch that scoreboard all day and night! Probably LONG since demolished. 😪

That 8 was brutal!

Now that is a weird ball return!

love that trap door on the ball rack

yes thanks for shareing Tim Romano.

Luv the commercials

I was not even alive during these times, but i have to say I love these times. All of the commercials, TV broadcasts, the music, and all of the old culture. My whole man cave is all 1960's-1970's.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

A class act you're not.

@robertbeacham4314

Жыл бұрын

A mouth you have! Real class! NOT!

@rockaway2k

10 ай бұрын

Mine too. You are not alone!

That 3rd game was remarkable.

Thanks so much for the post! Curious thing though...in 40-odd years of competitive bowling ( I've been through a lot of houses) I don't believe I've ever seen a ball return like that one.

@vitaphonedisc

7 жыл бұрын

I agree. I've never seen ball returns like that. I wonder if those were prototypes

@tw5569

6 жыл бұрын

Me either. Very different.

@rivierarick

6 жыл бұрын

The AMF Trap Door. Introduced in 1967. Recalled and removed from the market in 1968. Poorly designed, notorious for upfront underground ball return calls. Replaced by the Streamlane 21 and the Sur-Pik.

@jim8230

6 жыл бұрын

And I thought only Chris Schenkel used analogies for the sport of bowling. This color guy mentioned Weber looking like (Arturo) Toscanini conducting. (He was the conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra for many years).

@mrb43605

6 жыл бұрын

AMF Streamlane 21 ! I think! Nice !

The Ballantine beer ad was exquisite

That Jack Drees was a giant. The 2 bowlers look like they're standing in a ditch next to him.

Mr. Guenther's swing looks modern day, but the chicken wing finish position may have did him in.

I worked at a bowling alley back in the late 70s i was cranking the ball without a thumb in the ball carrying a 190 avg

That Newport commercial....wow

Greatest ball returns ever!

@paulb2488

Жыл бұрын

They used to have those ball returns at two centers in the Capital Region, Bowler's Club in Latham and Bowlero Lanes in Mechanicville, New York. Liked them alot.

great bowilng from 1967

old school bowling is beautiful.. All they have is 1 ball each

What kind of ball return is that? Never seen that before. 8:52

I'm lucky to have grown up in the 60's. Everyone had so much class, they dressed and behaved with dignity. It was nothing like today, where spectator's ass cracks are showing and they start screaming before the bowler gets to the foul line.

Man, now I want to go bowling

Wow, the game sure has changed. No real spin on those balls at all. And guys have an unusual delivery - five or six steps or more.

I remember when cigarette commercials still aired.

@nicholasschroeder3678

2 жыл бұрын

"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should'🎶🎶🎶

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

@@nicholasschroeder3678 Lol, "I'd rather fight than switch"

@mathematrucker

7 ай бұрын

"I'd walk a mile..."

@8avexp

7 ай бұрын

@@mathematrucker "You can take Salem out of the country, BUT - you can't take the country out of Salem."

Man, I feel like a cigarette, but all I have is a joint. Dam!

Needless to say with those lane conditions they were hardly any 200 average bowlers back then. I'm kind of stuck in the early urethane era on wood lanes. Great pin action but you had to work for it still.

Wow.

the ads on here, oh my.

"Probably the all time leader with 15 300 games". Today they throw 15 300 games in just one league night!!!

Kool ball return..

The best part is the commercials!

Could the bowlers hear the announcers?

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

Yes

wow! I thought this televised series was discontinued after 1966!

@vitaphonedisc

6 жыл бұрын

irishpogi I thought so too until I found a bunch of these. It must have been very limited release.

@christopherdunne7848

6 жыл бұрын

It continued in 1968, but only a half hour, and on videotape, with 2 teams of 2 in a best-ball format, of which Celebrity Bowling seemed to imitate 4 years later.

@armorybrunotjr.3204

4 жыл бұрын

"Championship Bowling" (aka "All-Star Bowling") aired In syndication from 1953-1970 and was mostly a Saturday afternoon staple.

@oldiesgeek454

4 жыл бұрын

@Christopher I used to watch a local Los Angeles show called Bowling For Dollars in the early 70s. It was for amateurs, and was hosted by Lakers announcer Chick Hearn.

@rockaway2k

Жыл бұрын

@@vitaphonediscKCOP channel 13, Los Angeles, used to show these episodes twice on Saturday afternoons in 1974. They were broadcast for about a year before disappearing. I HOPE those episodes can be found and uploaded one day soon.

Spoiler Alert: I posted too quickly! I hadn't watched the whole show. But, as it got into the third game, I remembered - I saw this episode when it first aired! As Guenther started striking, I was thinking to myself - is this the show he strings a bunch of strikes and gets stopped by a Stone 8-pin???? Sure enough .......

Where can I get a shirt like that? Classic.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

I like it too.

I don’t know why the video froze.

Weber always had an awkward follow through.

Commentators: Jack Drees & Bill Bunetta

Trap door ball returns !

Even though I saw very little of Dick Weber, I saw very much of his son Pete Weber who was very much “A Chip Off the Old Block” in the Game of Bowling.

@markrichmond2168

Жыл бұрын

A little different demeanor to say the least.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

Not even close, much less a "chip off the old block".

@robertbeacham4314

Жыл бұрын

Pete couldn’t carry his Father’s bowling ball! Pete was and still is a jerk

48:57 Is that Pete Weber when he was a baby? Maybe his sister 'Paula' (because it looks like a fluffy girls dress top... but I can't find her birth date.)

I bowled against Dick Weber in a pro am. Had him on the ropes but he beat me by 12 pins

@christophermelendez4482

6 жыл бұрын

Christopher Angel ok sure

@nicholasschroeder3678

2 жыл бұрын

Bowling is maybe the only game where an amateur can occasionally beat a pro. Good on you keeping up with him.

Is it me, or does the guy in the Kent commercial at 36:40 look like Vince McMahon?

It's my better half and I out to the slopes with our pack of smokes!!!

Great match, and I have never seen that ball return before. not surprising to hear that it had mechanical problems. That said, Jack Drees makes an absolutely terrible bowling announcer. he has very little knowledge of the sport and it shows. Bill Bunetta had to bail him out constantly.

No comments on the cigarette ads . Lol

@fromthesidelines

4 жыл бұрын

When this series was originally syndicated, cigarette advertisers were among the majority of those who bought commercial time, followed by breweries and other "male-oriented" products.

Subscribed the other day and find KZread UNSUBSCRIBED me.

Pete Weber talks just like his father.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

Lol, hardly.

57:44 Isn't anyone outraged that Weber called Guenther "boy" ?

@nicholasschroeder3678

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think there was any hostility behind it. I think it's a turn of phrase that's dropped out of the culture--"one of the boys", "going out with the boys". I can remember men referring to each as boys when they were among friends.

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

People in the USA were vastly more mature and cordial prior to the foreign invasion.

@mathematrucker

7 ай бұрын

"boy" and "girl" were both commonly used to refer to adults during the 60s without any connotation. "girl" was low-hanging fruit for 70s feminists to pull down, and "boy" fell off with it.

I am the only person to dislike this only because my dad made a comment saying “Hey look this has 74 likes and 0 dislike” so I pulled up the video on my phone and disliked it just to spite him

@20alphabet

Жыл бұрын

You should try to love your father.