Brunswick - The Golden Years (Part 2)

1960s video about Brunswick bowling products.

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Sports

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• bowling
• pinsetter
• brunswick

[TheSmileyPeace]

Anyone know anything about "northwest bowl" in Chicago? They have the inline surface returns and the gold crown masking units. Any guess as to the pinsetters A or A2? Any idea where to get parts for the pinsetters or the old seats?

[EdmDude]

Up here in Canada, there are alot of 5-pin centers that use the same Brunswick Gold Crown series mask units and the surface ball returns, just search under 5-pin canada, and you'll see the surface returns. In Edmonton, Ab, Canada, there used to be a bowling center underground that ran the same stuff shown in this video. It was called the West End Bowl. I think it was running 16 lanes of 10-pin.

[Sharkie626]

@Bill25cycle Hmm, I think they have the same motor, i'm not sure about all the pulley's but I do think the motor pulley size is the main change.

[Bill25cycle]

@Sharkie626 Hi, I've only seen A, A2 and Jetback in these vids. Questions: Do all 3 have 1 hp motors? If the ball lift is the same speed on all 3 machines, is the  a2/jetback change a larger gearbox drive pulley at the motor to speed up only the gearbox, I'm guessing..30%? If the main 'brain' cams dont fully rotate after the first ball, how do they return to topdeadcenter after a strike? Do all 3 models use one 1/4 hp 1140 rpm, ball accelerator, per pair of lanes? Thanks Sharkie!!!!!

[jamesffxl]

@cwf1701

I always like the surface ball returns, I enjoyed watching the ball coming back to you when I was a child.

There is a bowling alley near my house that still has this. It's on a second floor, witch may be the reason they use it.

[eitremn]

those fiberglass seats were very uncomfortable.

[shelllanes]

wow no kicker on the ball wheel



[stinger19er]

@zappatx Kelley's Hilltop in Omaha, Ne is the Hiltop bowling center that I was referring to. AMF equipped with streamlane 21 masking units and 82-70's as well as sure pick mod 3 ball returns.

[fickfroeschlein]

i remember it well...i learned with a trainer bowling in the mid seventies in germany when i was eight years old on such a brunswick-bowling-alley in white and blue...real good times of bowling.

[zappatx]

@stinger19er Sorry, I meant Kelley's Hilltop. Not Hilltop in Florence.