My grandparents had a joke book or two on the various bookshelves in the house and one of them had a bunch of jokes about the importance of tipping one's pin boy.
Checking the intertubes... automated pin setters date back to the late 40s?!?
A couple of times, we went bowling in the 70s and I remember mom and dad talking about how great the new automatic scoring was.
A few years later, I could swear that we had a bowling section in math class in 3rd or 4th grade.
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The options before auto-setters:
1. Rent a pin boy
2. Do it yourself
You'd only have to do it yourself for two frames before giving the pin boy a dime.
My grandparents had a joke book or two on the various bookshelves in the house and one of them had a bunch of jokes about the importance of tipping one's pin boy.
Checking the intertubes... automated pin setters date back to the late 40s?!?
A couple of times, we went bowling in the 70s and I remember mom and dad talking about how great the new automatic scoring was.
A few years later, I could swear that we had a bowling section in math class in 3rd or 4th grade.