US Patent No. 339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 spokane_city_map the Charles Town morning rendered

the Charles Town morning rendered with the gravity of an abolitionist icon already passing into legend

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

Hardin of the 1st Regiment Illinois Volunteers 1847 — a battlefield lithograph mourning the Whig congressman cut down at Buena Vista

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

and squeezers that turned the Gilded Age cocktail into a small piece of theater

US Patent No. 339772 Bowling Alley by Luther G Simjian June 19 1962 spokane_city_map the Charles Town morning renderedUs 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