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Slide Show: Bowlarama at the Architecture and Design Museum
There was a time when the streets of Southern California were teeming with jaunty rooflines, giant neon signs, and factories that made rocket ships. Enthusiasm for the space age colored the modern...
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Slide Show: Luxury Bowling Comes to Mar Vista
Bowlero Mar Vista opened on Venice Boulevard last night with pulsing music, klieg lights, and a dancing bowling pin. The makeover of the center once known as Mar Vista Lanes is a new concept from New...
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18 of Your Favorite Classic L.A. Places That Are About to Disappear
Folks were surprised recently when their neighborhood Albertson’s became a Haggen market and the local Radio Shack started morphing into a Sprint store, but that’s nothing compared to the epochal...
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Modern Architect Gordon Powers Turns 100 Today
Architect Gordon Powers celebrates his 100th birthday today. His classic bowling center designs of the 1950s completely reinvented the game, opening up to women and families what had mostly been a...
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L.A.’s Most Iconic Mid-Century Bowling Alley Has Closed
Covina owl owl closed this weekend after a long and colorful 61 year-run. Longtime customers were turned away from the packed bowling lanes on Saturday night and told to return for a final game on...
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One of the Last Great SoCal Bowling Alleys Could Soon Be Gone
One of the last great Southern California bowling centers of the 1950s is scheduled to close soon, and plans are in the works for a supermarket and a Chick-fil-A to take its place. Palos Verdes Bowl...
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