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Article: Keeping things rolling at a bowling alley
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2008
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CAREERS / Odd Jobs
Sonny DiPerri, 22, is not the type you'd expect to find hanging
around a bowling alley. DiPerri, a Berklee College of Music student,
is a former three-sport varsity athlete and a hip musician who has
composed music for independent films.
But DiPerri moonlights as a bowling alley mechanic at Kings
Bowling and Billiards in Back Bay, where he spends his weekend in
the "guts" of the bowling center, maintaining the complex machinery
for the pinsetters, ball lifts and hoods, lanes, and gutters. Turns
out, the seemingly simple bowling machine operation that the public
sees is actually a series of chains, sprockets, bearings, and