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Rolling through a living museum: this classic center was the first bowling experience for Dick Weber and thousands of others.(Center spotlight: sport bowl)
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Bowling Digest
- Article date:
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December 22, 2004
- Author:
- Denny, Dick
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WHEN BROTHERS WILFRED and Elmer Brehob opened their 12-lane Sport Bowl on the south side of Indianapolis on August 15, 1941, just 114 days before Pearl Harbor, Dick Weber was a skinny kid of 11 dreaming of being a major league baseball player.
Weber, of course, never made it to the big leagues in baseball, but he certainly made it big in bowling. The Indianapolis native, who moved to St. Louis in 1955 and reached stardom with the Budweisers before helping the PBA become a viable part of the American sporting scene, has treasured memories of Sport Bowl, its founders, and their families.
Of the Brehobs, Weber says, "They meant a lot to me. They were very kind to me and ...