Bowling for...Nothing

[PismoBeach]

Those pins are always spellbinding.

And, at 2:02, I spied your classic portable VCR.

[PopularOrNot]

Wow - milestone comin' up !

Calls for a celebration !

[slyflight]

@PopularOrNot Celebration, yes… I'm going bowling!!! heh heh. Well, not really. I sold off all of my old equipment years ago.

[PismoBeach]

So close to 7,000 views we can taste it !



[PismoBeach]

SIX THOUSAND VIEWS (and them some) !

Well deserved. This is such an enjoyable video to watch.

[TheRandomVideoMaker]

ur so grovy eh? =-p

[PismoBeach]

This remains a fascinating video to watch.

Gets even better with repeated viewing.

Should get as many stars as it has bowling pins.

[RoryNights]

gee I'm glad I decided to dig into your videos on your channel Dan. This is really cool. hhmm another playlist "smile" maybe coming up. The guy at the end is quite cheery.. its cute. More stars!! *****

[slyflight]

Sad story about him!

Not long after this was recorded, ha had a massive stroke, brought on by, I believe, the fact that he was a HEAVY smoker.

I last saw him in 1984, and he looked like he was about 80 years old.

Another playlist! Yay! I've been looking through them! A lot of cool stuff in them!

[RoryNights]

Hi Dan, gee its good I came back here.. as I only got the 2nd reply from you and it didn't make any sense without the first reply part about the sad story. Thats too bad about him having a massive stroke.

On another note, this video is really upbeat.. and the music goes great with it too! More stars! looks like its a popular video! ******

[slyflight]

That should read; "HE had a massive"...

My ol' fat fingers get the better of me again! heh heh.

[BurgerChefGuy]

Neat to see how that all works behind the scenes. 5*

[slyflight]

I was lucky that night...Everything WAS working! heh heh. No 180's, No out-of-ranges, No deck jams, etc...

[PismoBeach]

Congratulations on another milestone, Dan.

FOUR THOUSAND VIEWS

Very well deserved.

[slyflight]

4,017...How did that happen?

This video is older than most of the people that have watched it! (Just did the insight on it).

Thanks for pointing it out Steve!

I haven't been by here in a long time.

[mjfreeman]

Yeah I did the pinsetter thing in high school and college...still moon light at a buds center where he is the head mechanic. Of course the vintage starshields we used to have are long gone.  It brought back memories of the mid 70's when I started bowling.

[mjfreeman]

Yeah it looked like they had both the MiXers and the Brunswick Red Crown. Like the good ole starshields too.

[slyflight]

Even though I'm retired, if I could go back to just one job and do it again, This would defiantly be the one! It was the most enjoyable minimum wage job on the planet!

[PismoBeach]

Over TWO THOUSAND VIEWS

with lots more to come !

[PismoBeach]

A thousand views, any minute now!

[slyflight]

I know I was just checking to see if #1000 had happened yet!

[PismoBeach]

It happened.

And this is just the beginning!

[slyflight]

Wow! And how ironic...This video is over 25 years old and was shot on cheap equipment!

[PismoBeach]

Excellent coverage of how the pinsetting machines work. I had never seen that before.

[pourdesraisons]

hahaha, long hair, manual scoring, ASHTRAYS...(Remember them things?) And, Is that lyle Bremser I hear on the radio? ahh, the '80's. :)

[slyflight]

...Not to mention that the projection unit kinda looks like WALL-E! I just noticed it.

Yes, that was 'ol Lyle! I think NU was playing KU that day.

[amrepmike33]

and the good ol eagle logo red crowns! the best pins made! (i think)

[slyflight]

Those were Brunswick Mixers, preferred pin of that era! Had the American Bowling Congress eagle on 'em.

[dra999]

What a great moment in time captured on video. I dig the dude's left-over from the 70's moustache! 5 stars!

[slyflight]

We all looked like we just stepped in from a Starsky and Hutch episode!

[BrunsAce]

Love the StarShields! My last place had those! A pain in the but keeping up with the bulbs but well worth it IMO! They lookj great during cosmic too!

[slyflight]

Funny thing 'bout the starshields, I remember we ran out of white bulbs and had to use YELLOW bulbs, and NO ONE noticed it for about 3 months!

[BrunsAce]

Lol I can believe it! Good ole #94 bulbs. Can you believe they're $1.00 apiece now?!

[slyflight]

Whoa! $1.00 per now?!!? No wonder the mngr said "just use the yellow ones"... BUT, That was 25 years ago!

[1SmileDude1]

Your machines is same as my hometown bowling alley...But It's speed machines, It's not good because sometime the pin machines hit the sweep.

[budharvesting]

nice vid. Your machines are almost the same as ours. The masking units are the same as my Part 2 vid and them stupid ball kickers are there too. I made a fun video called riverport lanes. Check it out if you havent.

[slyflight]

Thanx for the reply! yea, those ball kickers would always launch ebonites like the space shuttle! SOMETIMES w/ a pin in front of them! I got really fast at pulling the covers off of the subway!!! Actually, it was one of your vids that inspired me to post this one.