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@@Ren_equestrian316 that is sad that they are tearing it down 😥 we will always have this video as memories 😇

@@Warthunderclipsdaily This is in Sandusky, Ohio 🏖️

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@@EliWall-e3s I think it is still up! Look up abandoned nursing home Kalamazoo, MI

@@Guysdodged No! This is located in Kalamazoo, Michigan 🌲

@@griz3005651 ok, I always wondered the backstory behind those pictures 📸

I have heard this place had multiple violations, and the owners stopped caring 🏚️

@@maui_sands oh no 😥

@urbanexplorer260 ik its sad it's a cool place

@@UpgradedAstrotitancamerama-e3y It’s a race man, first one to the location usually gets the best/preserved stuff!

@@robinbuckeye6841 thank you for the information, Robin! And in your opinion, who is the best bowler you’ve ever seen in person?

@@urbanexplorer260 I've talked with Earl Anthony, Mark Roth and many others, including the women pros, but my favorite bowler is Parker Bohn because we are both left-handed. He taught me a lot about making spares.

@@robinbuckeye6841 ☺️☺️

Most of the houses are switching over to string pin bowling.

Bowling may become extinct because technology ruined the game, ranging from teched-up bowling ball surfaces to the ever-failing teched-up automatic scoring systems. Bowling got ruined because everyone including amateurs started "shooting 58s and 59s on the golf course", if you can follow the context here (i.e., everyone shooting 300s, 800s and 900s). When Bowling can get back to when a score in the 190s is good...

Oh, i was a Brunswick and AMF mechanic myself. I was always scared of the behemoth Brunswick pinsetters, you make one little mistake you might die; I felt very safe with the AMF 82-70 pinsetters because the pinsetters have very many safety interlocks that it's almost impossible to get injured or die in those pinsetters. I will never again go onto a pin deck with that weight-ladened Brunswick table (deck) dangling above me because if the gearbox decided to give out while underneath one of those things, you're dead meat! I once read an item in a bowling publication in which an AMF mechanic managed to meet his death in an AMF pinsetter, and thought to myself that he had to do something really off the mark to end up meeting his demise in an AMF 82-70 pinsetter!

@@danfreiberger5137 I cannot believe there is a high chance of fatality actually working on the machines! Hats off to you sir 🎩

@@hollyralston8578 great to hear 😄

@@lizogden2458 I wonder the same thing, it is nice furniture! 🪑

@@alynhampton 👏🏼👏🏼

@@michaelm2343 LOL 🤣 I debated it when I was there

@@MellowMechanic87 This is the old Albion Bowl, located in Albion, Indiana. The address is still publicly listed online :)

@@urbanexplorer260 that’s awesome! Thank you!

@@mikedonzero2692 very nice! 👍🏼

@@urbanexplorer260 we should get together sometime & share some stories. Wanatah Indiana.

@@mikedonzero2692 I am located in Kendallville, IN, my e-mail is fayediv09@gmail.com

Im glad you met some great people 😁 good to keep the sport alive 🎳

I bowl at a place in Rochester, Domm's, that's run by Millie Martorella's step grandsons. It's a great place and she stopped in for a visit when I was bowling there last season. What a bowler she was! When I was a teenager I saw her win her first Queens title at Gates Bowl in Rochester.

This was located in Michigan however the diner cars were moved across the U.S. recently 😞

There does seem to be an intense discussion between the two! I love to see my viewers going back and forth over a topic they have so much passion for ☺️🎳

@@urbanexplorer260 Thank you. I didn't think I'd get a response from you since the video had been out for a while by this point.

@@Greggys10Pins I respond to every single comment 😇

@@urbanexplorer260 That's my goal to ever since I started my channel.

Long live the (Brunswick) A2! Pinchased, and later became head mechanic at 2 centers about a million years ago. I still miss it.

Yeah there were still a few left in good condition worth thousands

1624 E Michigan Avenue, Albion, MI

No kidding, I’m not into bowling but is he well known? Sounds like he might have quite a history with bowling 🎳

That’s very cool to hear! Also I want to compliment you on your username “fluffy vibes” 🤣

@@urbanexplorer260 THANK YOU STRANGERRR

@@fluffy_vibes4310 you’re welcome 😇

I completely agree Dylan 😊

What movies do you remember watching there? 🍿

​@@urbanexplorer260my most vivid one was Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace I was 6 or 7. I rememeber swimming with everyone, then going up there in my swim trunks and a towel. Then falling asleep on the ride home. I know that was when it was star theater, but when it went to spotlight, I'd walk all the way from Sibley and Racho, where I lived, on Saturday early mornings for the free popcorn, and I'd be the only one in the theater! I was a major movie fan during my late high school days, I still am, but not like I was 😂

Indeed🥤

Waterparks bring back so many fun times for a lot of people 🌴 it is sad to see such a once thriving spot just rotting

Same

Absolutely!

This is the Royal Funeral Home in Battle Creek, Michigan. And unfortunately the owner boarded up all entrances and locked all the doors 😞

I agree, the old items hold such history for so many 🤩🤓

You’re probably correct, the more word gets out unfortunately bandits and drug addicts will come through and destroy the place 🤯

That frankly does not surprise me! Other people who don’t have an appreciation for history or the abandoned tend to treat things as such 😞 Hopefully they can make better decisions, down the road 🛣️

That statement would be correct 👍🏼

Well Sammie it sounds like you’ve had quite a time ☺️ It’s so unique to hear about your past experiences and how your love for bowling never went away!

I too am 68 and I am disgusted about how Bowling has turned from being a sport into something that is now merely an "exhibition", you know, an exhibition of who can spend the most money on a bowling ball and then who can carry the most, since all the amateurs are now shooting 300s, 800s and 900s! 150-average bowlers who think they're 225-average bowlers. Can you imagine everyone, including amateurs, shooting 58s and 59s on the golf course? That's exactly what happened to Bowling! To date there are only TWO legitimate 900 series: Glenn Allison and Joe Scarborough. All others were made possible by the teched-up bowling ball surfaces, house lane conditions, and kickbacks that are much too lively (allowing the head pin to do the job that the 6-pin is supposed in taking out the 10-pin). Here's what I suggest to restore integrity to Bowling... 1. Rubber and plastic ball surfaces only! 2. Place 4-lb pins in the pinsetters. 3. Deaden the kickbacks so that the head pin doesn't keep flying across the pin deck (when the pin contacts the kickback, it merely should drop into the channel). 4. Remove ALL automatic scorers, bring back the telescores, and learn to keep score as part of the game. (But if you are going to keep the automatic scorers, take your pinsetter mechanics off the scorers [and the lanes too] so that we can better maintain the pinsetters instead of blowing our time on the lanes and the ever-failing scorers, and then have management ask me why the pinsetters are failing!) 5. Eliminate the "house shot" nonsense ... edgeboard to edgeboard with the lane oil with only a slightest crowning toward the 20-board. With the suggestions I have made to restore integrity to this game, now let's see who can really bowl! No one will be shooting 900s any more! Just as not everyone is shooting 58s and 59s on the golf course!

If the 6-pin failed to take out the 10-pin, the 10-pin was supposed to stand, not get knocked down by a pin flying all over the pin deck!