LANE LINES: Our columns on the former Public Square bowling
alleys wouldn’t be complete without a recitation of some of the big
names in bowling as recounted in a Jan. 2, 1956, story by sports
editor Joe Guido.

We printed highlights of Guido’s story in RTS of Tuesday and
Wednesday, and finish today.

He writes, “Bradford bowlers also played a big role in making
the Interstate the tournament that it was.”

“Money winners in the first tournament included Bradford Iron
Men, Colligan’s Lucky Strikes, Garfinkle’s Billiard Academy,
Ellison and Ellison, Hoyle’s Grocery and Option Hotel, Bruce Paton
and McKay, Harold Shea and Oscar Johnson, Jim Grozins and Ray
Johnson, Ernie Johnson and W. Welter all took money in the
doubles.

“The list of men who have been pin stickers at the Squares down
through the years shows many who still are active in bowling,
including Ray and Jim Crawford, Lloyd Ackerlund, John, Jim, Frank
and Tony Colosimo, Abe Lasky, Leo and Gerald Cummings, Harry Feidt,
Phil, Carm, Jim, Louis Pascarella, Happy and Hugh McAndrews, Enard
Seagren, Emmett Johnson, Glen McCollough, Mike Fire, Bob Goodman,
Paul and Jim Maney, John Daniels and many others.”

So, readers, now it’s your turn. We’re soliciting your memories
of the old Public Square alleys, which continued to operate until
several decades ago.

AND ALSO: Gary Barr of Denver, N.C., read our online version and
sent along this email: “Reading the article in Round the Square
about the Public Lanes today, I wonder how many of us there are
that used to earn spending money setting pins there. As I recall it
was $.10 cents a game. In league days you could make some money,
but you had to be quick.”

THIS, TOO: Jim Belardia phoned right after our item on the
bowling alley appeared and corrected a reference we had made to the
“Italian American Progressive Club.” In fact, it is the
“Italian-Americanization Society.”

And, also, we had a reference in the first column to the
Headwall “Skip” Shop. Whether it was our fingers or our
spellchecker, we had meant to say, Headwall Ski Shop, of
course.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “There is no freedom, unless the press can tell
the truth and survive while telling it,” said broadcast journalist
Judy C. Woodruff in 2005. (This quote seemed particularly relevant
given today’s attitude toward the press, particularly by some of
the politicians in Washington, D.C.)