Shore Lanes - Clearwater, FL - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex Sweatshirt bondsville A cartoon anthropomorphic firecracker character

A cartoon anthropomorphic firecracker character in red with a lit fuse

embedding the game in communities that lived and died with every inning

Mobile's Swamp Angels took the field in 1887

Orange County was still mostly groves and farmland then

and that diamond was the closest thing to sacred ground

Shore Lanes - Clearwater, FL - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex Sweatshirt bondsville A cartoon anthropomorphic firecracker characterShore Lanes anchored U. S. 19 South in Clearwater, Florida, during the 1960s and 1970s, when that Gulf Coast highway corridor was lined with neon and possibility. Bowling alleys like this one served as neighborhood gathering places for league nights, family outings, and snowbird socials. A roadside sign you could spot from half a mile out meant you were home. Part of our Retro Bowling collection, featuring the defunct alleys of yesteryear. The