Bowling alleys in basements or 2nd floor. - Forgotten Chicago Saint John's Lutheran Parrish on Montrose Ave had bowling four lanes in the basement of the church Last of the church alleys in Chicago Empire Bowl on Milwaukee Ave was a second floor house Monte Clare Lanes on Harlem Ave was built over the parking garage They just closed in April
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago Other bowling alleys in the area that closed were: Scottsdale Lanes, Ford City Bowl, Miami Bowl, Archer Kedzie Bowl, Argo Bowl, Evergreen Towers, Oak Lawn Bowl
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago Hi-Spot Lanes at 6310 W Grand Avenue, on the Northwest side Building is still there, but it's a Mexican night club, I believe I used to bowl here a lot in the 1980s with neighborhood friends, and then play the APB and Gauntlet video games they used to have here towards the back of the alley Then we used to get pizza at the old Abruzzi next
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago We hit Turner Lanes a lot, and a place called Bieg's Bowl, an upstairs alley (like Lincoln Square Lanes) that has since burned down, I think There was Sim's and another tiny alley both in Des Plaines, Habetler on Northwest Highway, a place on Belmont near Kimball (can't remember the name) and if we were feeling adventurous we'd go to the alley in Marina City before they remodeled all the cool
Bowling Alleys Laredo Lanes was the best A great date place A good walk to place, just for the hot dogs When they were building it, you could still walk past the old Army surplus store near COlumbus and 85th Across the way, closer to 84th was a great diner with delicious hamburgers WHat a great bowling alley to spend the Saturdaynight! Options: Reply
Lake Shore Drive Redux - Forgotten Chicago The lanes split off at Roosevelt Road and reconvened around 24th place, directly after the 23rd Street Viaduct’s southern on off ramp With the reconfiguration, all LSD traffic was placed on the western (southbound) lanes, which had additional lanes added to it
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago According to the book --- Oldest Chicago by David Anthony Witter --- the oldest bowling alley is Southport Lanes at 3325 N Southport Avenue Opened in 1922, and is the only bowling alley to still employ pin boys
Bowling Alleys - Forgotten Chicago Lincoln Lanes? On Lincoln Ave near Roscoe, I think It was on the second floor right next to the L tracks and tolerated a bunch of teenagers hanging around in the early sixties Don't remember doing much bowling there, just walking there from hone a mile or more away to flirt with the boys and act cool Options: Reply • Quote AD:
Long Lost Loop Lanes - Forgotten Chicago This 1939 rendering from the Tribune is a view west down Congress from Wells It is an earlier version of the interchange between the Congress Expressway and Wacker Drive, which was not completed until 1956 The arrangement of the half-cloverleaf ramps are similar to the built version, the main difference is that the rendering depicts an extremely tight turning radius If the interchange were
Tied Houses A “tied house” was a type of saloon that originated in England, but gained infamy in pre-prohibition America An institution that was believed to promote intemperance, tied houses were one of many factors leading to national prohibition in 1919 A number of former tied houses remain in Chicago, long after