Brunswick: The Golden Years (1958)

Promotional film from 1958 promoting Brunswick's brand new line of capital equipment for bowling centers, including the Gold Crown series. This film was targeted at bowling center proprietors looking to build new centers or upgrade existing ones. For what it's worth, the bowling center I grew up bowling in -- King Louie Ranch Mart Lanes in Leawood, KS -- looked pretty much like the one seen at :13:11 in this film, except that the benches in the settee area were white and gold not white and blue as depicted here, same white Telescore projectors, and the same white and dark gray ball returns, except that King Louie Ranch Mart Lanes had the subway cluster ball returns instead of the inline style ball returns. I remember walking into that bowling center on the day it opened -- January 29, 1959 -- and remarking to my parents, "This is beautiful!"

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