Today, we'll be checking out my favorite building in Pioneertown - Pioneer Bowl! It's just a little 6-lane bowling alley. But it's packed with history and all kinds of interesting old games. According to the Wikipedia blurb below, it closed its doors "forever" in 2010 - just 5 years after I visited it in 2005. I hope that's not true. If it is, it makes me sad. :-(
Pioneer Bowl
Dick Curtis, Roy Rogers and Russell Hayden were some of the original developers and investors, and Gene Autry filmed every episode of his show at the six-lane Pioneer Bowl bowling alley. The Pioneer Bowl's construction was credited to Tommy Thompson in 1947 and Rogers himself rolled out the first ball in 1949. School-age children were hired as pinsetters until the installation of automatic pinsetting equipment in the 1950s. According to the Morongo Basin Historical Society, the bowling alley was one of the oldest in continuous use in California until they closed their doors for good in 2010.
Very nice photography.
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