US Patent No. 339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 spokane_city_map and rain-slick pavement glowing under

and rain-slick pavement glowing under the incandescent canopy that earned Forty-Second Street its luminous nickname

catalogued in the last year the Union still needed such a chart

its title alone betraying the era's faith that even domestic sentiment could be mass-produced and sold by the thousand to households hungry for the trappings of refinement

and the White City of the Columbian Exposition stacked like geological strata in the proud civic hand of a Gilded Age commemorative lithograph

US Patent No. 339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 spokane_city_map and rain-slick pavement glowing underUs Patent No. 339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 Simjian's engineering filing arrives at the height of the postwar bowling boom, when automatic pinsetters had transformed the corner alley into a temple of mechanized leisure and the schematic shows every pulley, gutter, and pin cradle of a lane built to keep the action humming. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American archives the U. S. Patent and Trademark