Same here. I don't what I would have thought seeing the stuff you do today. I think delivering the ball like a 3 year old detracts from the game. Don't guess you can do anything about it but you never saw it back then.
Used to watch these matches every Sat. nite in Chicago. Some of the names I remember: Therm Gibson, Dick Hoover, Ned Day, Bill Lillard, & Carmen Salvino.
Old Brunswick A-1 pinsetters. They were great when they worked - when they broke down (which was a lot), it could be a heck of a job to get them going again.
As a bowler who uses the new bowling balls that have a huge hook, I admire how much skill these bowlers have. Even if I were to borrow my grandfather's old bowling balls from the 1940s, the alley I bowl at is half synthetic, and we only have 1 full wooden alley in my state. I wonder how my scores would be.
These bowlers roll essentially straight balls, rather than the big and beautiful hooks rolled by many of the great bowlers of that time. Note that Fred Wolf refers to the Brunswick automatic pin spotter. That was a relatively new innovation. In earlier shows of Championship Bowling hosted by Joe Wilson the pins were set by humans.
Best announcer ever "FRED WOLF" was a dis jockey for WXYZ also owned his own bowling alley FRED WOLF EASTLAND BOWL. He played alot of golf too. I worked at his bowling alley in 1965-68 while I was in high school. I remember him well, really admired him. Forgot he was also a great bowler himself!
Note that at 0:14, there's a "Presented By", but there is only the bowling action on-screen. That was to allow subscribing stations to superimpose a logo of a local sponsor (perhaps also with a local announcer's voice-over), as in "Presented By/Dick Weber's 300 Motors On Perfection Road".
When we talk about "lift" on the ball, I can't help but laugh at Bluth in particular. He drops his shoulder & dumps the bal off his thumb pretty consistently. That 4-6-7 split of his in the 10th frame was well-deserved on that count. Welp, not really Bluth's fault I guess, the technology & understanding were pretty primitive back then. And, oh, BTW, thank goodness I'm the perfect bowler.
I called those kind of sweeps the steel grate sweeps as they remind me of the old steel sweeps the AMF machines used to at the time. If there is anything being incorrect in the statement about the sweeps on the old machines please correct me I’d like to know more about them. Why did they stop making AMF machines with those steel grate looking sweep rails on them they look great.
+Conrad Luznar I was born in 1962 and I remembered watching PBA Bowling Every Saturday Afternoon on ABC at 3:30 P.M. with Chris Schenkel in the Early 1970's and it was no different then as you are seeing this show on video(Shown up around 15-20 years earlier than the Time Frame I have mentioned).
I bowled league there in the '70s. (I'm also the same "BowlingOldies" who does this RUclips channel.) It was an AMF house. When I bowled at Richland Bowl (and I only bowled there for one season, back in '74, I believe), I was bowling on a team that was comprised of a bunch of us KFJZ (AM 1270) employees. I was probably the best bowler on the team, but everybody was there just to have fun, and yet somehow, they were all really competitive. It wouldn't be until a few years later that I really got serious about bowling and became a scratch bowler, and eventually went PBA. What I remember most about this house was the acoustics. That place was LOUD! And there seemed to be nothing on any of the walls to absorb any of the sound, just stone walls that were painted. So the noise just reverberated through the building and rattled your ears. I would leave there and my ears would be ringing for hours. It was almost worse than any rock concert I ever attended (and I attended a ton of them, and often had seats up front near the speakers).
![Championship Bowling [1966] Carmen Salvino vs Ray Bluth](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/f5zlI2ZzE3U/mqdefault.jpg)
Thanks, once again, for saving these gems. I miss 'the good ole days' of bowling.
Spent many a Saturday watching this show.
Same here pal because this was when bowling was bowling. The bowling like the NFL is now CRAP too & isn't worth watching anymore either.
I loved watching this show when i was a kid.. It certainly made me want to be a good bowler.
Same here. I don't what I would have thought seeing the stuff you do today. I think delivering the ball like a 3 year old detracts from the game. Don't guess you can do anything about it but you never saw it back then.
Used to watch these matches every Sat. nite in Chicago. Some of the names I remember: Therm Gibson, Dick Hoover, Ned Day, Bill Lillard, & Carmen Salvino.
Old Brunswick A-1 pinsetters. They were great when they worked - when they broke down (which was a lot), it could be a heck of a job to get them going again.
As a bowler who uses the new bowling balls that have a huge hook, I admire how much skill these bowlers have. Even if I were to borrow my grandfather's old bowling balls from the 1940s, the alley I bowl at is half synthetic, and we only have 1 full wooden alley in my state. I wonder how my scores would be.
I remember this intro music! Was also used when King Louie was the sponsor.
It's etched in my brain too.
this is so great
These bowlers roll essentially straight balls, rather than the big and beautiful hooks rolled by many of the great bowlers of that time. Note that Fred Wolf refers to the Brunswick automatic pin spotter. That was a relatively new innovation. In earlier shows of Championship Bowling hosted by Joe Wilson the pins were set by humans.
Best announcer ever "FRED WOLF" was a dis jockey for WXYZ also owned his own bowling alley FRED WOLF EASTLAND BOWL. He played alot of golf too. I worked at his bowling alley in 1965-68 while I was in high school. I remember him well, really admired him. Forgot he was also a great bowler himself!
Note that at 0:14, there's a "Presented By", but there is only the bowling action on-screen.
That was to allow subscribing stations to superimpose a logo of a local sponsor (perhaps also with a local announcer's voice-over), as in "Presented By/Dick Weber's 300 Motors On Perfection Road".
Those pins sound solid much different than today's pins.
Brunswick bowling equipment was used in this episode.
Model A pinsetter
It sure was, bud.
Great whispery announcer - wouldn't want to mess up their concentration!
The great Fred Wolf. Bowling's announcer of record before Chris Schenkel came along.
When we talk about "lift" on the ball, I can't help but laugh at Bluth in particular. He drops his shoulder & dumps the bal off his thumb pretty consistently. That 4-6-7 split of his in the 10th frame was well-deserved on that count. Welp, not really Bluth's fault I guess, the technology & understanding were pretty primitive back then. And, oh, BTW, thank goodness I'm the perfect bowler.
Skokie - A Chicago Suburb.
I called those kind of sweeps the steel grate sweeps as they remind me of the old steel sweeps the AMF machines used to at the time. If there is anything being incorrect in the statement about the sweeps on the old machines please correct me I’d like to know more about them. Why did they stop making AMF machines with those steel grate looking sweep rails on them they look great.
Didn't Bluth retire from bowling,move to Russia,changed his name to Gorbachev?
If the bowlers had the high rev balls that they have today who know how high they could of scored
The technology to design and manufacture today's modern bowling balls didn't exist back then.
That was when bowling was real. Now they have all kinds of gimmick balls.
+Conrad Luznar
I was born in 1962 and I remembered watching PBA Bowling Every Saturday Afternoon on ABC at 3:30 P.M. with Chris Schenkel in the Early 1970's and it was no different then as you are seeing this show on video(Shown up around 15-20 years earlier than the Time Frame I have mentioned).
1960
Salty old bowlers
I guess they were maning a living doing this??
Anyone ever bowl ATV"Richland bowl" of Richland hills Texas? 1958 to 1980 ? The Best Women's bowler and instructor " miss Shirlee Branum ! ( Rip) 2009
I bowled league there in the '70s. (I'm also the same "BowlingOldies" who does this RUclips channel.) It was an AMF house. When I bowled at Richland Bowl (and I only bowled there for one season, back in '74, I believe), I was bowling on a team that was comprised of a bunch of us KFJZ (AM 1270) employees. I was probably the best bowler on the team, but everybody was there just to have fun, and yet somehow, they were all really competitive. It wouldn't be until a few years later that I really got serious about bowling and became a scratch bowler, and eventually went PBA. What I remember most about this house was the acoustics. That place was LOUD! And there seemed to be nothing on any of the walls to absorb any of the sound, just stone walls that were painted. So the noise just reverberated through the building and rattled your ears. I would leave there and my ears would be ringing for hours. It was almost worse than any rock concert I ever attended (and I attended a ton of them, and often had seats up front near the speakers).