Things you don't see much anymore!!

**MICHAEL** · 06-26-2014, 02:07 PM

Don't see 6 Tuba players on the front of most trains anymore???? What a treat it was to hear them come through town blowing them tuba's!!!

**rv driver** · 06-26-2014, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by MICHAEL

Where is there a group of signs that look this COOL,,,, and a alley that is open 24 hours??? NOT AROUND HERE? AMF's open around 4 pm now!

My center is open at 10 am and closes at 1 or 1:30 a.m. Bar, restaurant, game room, pro shop, plenty of well-lighted parking, a drive-under portico, a good house pro, well-maintained lanes, nice restrooms & lockers, and plenty of lanes.

Beats 16 wood lanes, no food, no pro shop that I grew up with. But I loved that old bowling alley!

**rv driver** · 06-26-2014, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by MICHAEL

Don't see 6 Tuba players on the front of most trains anymore???? What a treat it was to hear them come through town blowing them tuba's!!!

Technically they're Sousaphones -- same scale and key as a tuba, but wrapped differently, so as to be easy to carry in marching bands -- large-flare bells front to project sound outdoors. Not the same thing as the "Suzy-phone," which you showed us in post #56, although they could both be referenced as "blowers." I have no idea why they're posing on a locomotive...

**MICHAEL** · 06-26-2014, 11:17 PM

Originally Posted by rv driver

My center is open at 10 am and closes at 1 or 1:30 a.m. Bar, restaurant, game room, pro shop, plenty of well-lighted parking, a drive-under portico, a good house pro, well-maintained lanes, nice restrooms & lockers, and plenty of lanes.

Beats 16 wood lanes, no food, no pro shop that I grew up with. But I loved that old bowling alley!

That's hard to find around here anymore.... AMF really sucks... all of them have very limited hours now, so hard to find a good time to practice, like in the morning, or even early afternoon. I miss those 12:00 noon practice sessions Jason and Ice use to have. It was 12:00 to 2:00 free bowling for all league members. I only have Gladstone, and Retro in liberty Missouri that are close. Two Amf's but their hours suck now!!

What the name of the center you bowl at? I have been up around St Louis, and bowled the Weber Lanes! I guess the Weber family still owns it?

**rv driver** · 06-27-2014, 09:16 AM

Originally Posted by MICHAEL

That's hard to find around here anymore.... AMF really sucks... all of them have very limited hours now, so hard to find a good time to practice, like in the morning, or even early afternoon. I miss those 12:00 noon practice sessions Jason and Ice use to have. It was 12:00 to 2:00 free bowling for all league members. I only have Gladstone, and Retro in liberty Missouri that are close. Two Amf's but their hours suck now!!

What the name of the center you bowl at? I have been up around St Louis, and bowled the Weber Lanes! I guess the Weber family still owns it?

Usually Enterprise Park Lanes in Springfield, but also at Sunshine Lanes (both owned by the same guy I've known since 1981 -- Steve Wiemer) and Battlefield Lanes. My old home alley was in Marshfield -- Coach Light Lanes. That was a great place, back in the day. Roy Chapman, I believe, was the owner/proprietor.

**MICHAEL** · 07-08-2014, 12:32 AM

A Gas station attendant!! Not just for the COOL uniforms and the smell of gas 8 hours a day, but because it was COOL, and it drew chick's like a magnet. Service with a Smile,,,, gone are those days!

**rv driver** · 07-08-2014, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by MICHAEL

A Gas station attendant!! Not just for the COOL uniforms and the smell of gas 8 hours a day, but because it was COOL, and it drew chick's like a magnet. Service with a Smile,,,, gone are those days!

God! What I wouldn't give for some real service like we had back then!

**MICHAEL** · 07-09-2014, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by MICHAEL

A Gas station attendant!! Not just for the COOL uniforms and the smell of gas 8 hours a day, but because it was COOL, and it drew chick's like a magnet. Service with a Smile,,,, gone are those days!

The proud service station attendant is tell the kid: " Stay in school, do well, get that College Education, and YOU 2 might be pumping gas one day son!" "Do you like my bow-tie, comes with the job!!"