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Article: Meadow Lanes, which ushered in the bowling boom in Topeka, saw its last pin fall after 47 years of service Potts helped open center's doors in '58
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- July 2, 2005
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MEADOW LANES
Nate Kranski, right, and Robert Mondloch, employees of Mack Lane
Service Inc., hauled a ball return out of AMF Meadow Lanes bowling
center in early June. The center, which featured 24 lanes, was
dismantled over a three-week period.
By Steve Thompson
THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL
In the summer of 1958, Topekans were about to be swept up in a
nationwide bowling boom.
At the time there were only 24 bowling lanes in Topeka --- 16 at
Highland Crest Bowl, on S.E. 29th Street, and eight at
Pla-Land Bowl, on S. Kansas Avenue downtown. If you were looking
for an open lane on a league night, your chances of finding one were
slim.
But as the 1957-58 league season was winding down, a new bowling ...
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