When in my teens, I set pins at a local bowling alley for 12 cents a line (game). I had a great time!

My dad did this as a boy in the late 30’s and 40’s. He said he’d get tipped by the bowlers after the game. They’d roll coins down the alley at him. Pretty cool story 😊

@rockvilleraven

9 ай бұрын

In the opening scene from the movie "Dreamer" when he was a kid, he was a pinboy and got tipped after the game like that. The movie is on KZread.

Prior to this system we sat on a bench at the rear; sometimes dodging or getting hit with flying pins. There was a place down the pit at the very end of the alley that you stuck your foot in and pushed down on mechanism that pushed about a 2 or 3 inch steel pins up from the floor. The pins had holes in the bottom. You would scoop up two hands full of pins and place them on the pins on their spot and pick up the ball and put on gravity track to let them roll back to bowler. Two lanes were normal but when people didn't show up you would do maybe six lanes and work like crazy. Set pins for winter leagues to buy my first car for $50.00. That was a whole winters work. Early sixties.

I’ll have to visit this place when I’m in the US.

I did this when I was a kid. It was a good way to make money, but hot, dusty and sometimes stressful.

Bro he still looks like a kid.