Kings Bowl - Millbrae, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt appleton These animated figures

These animated figures

with a bowling ball and pins visible

flanked by two skeleton dancers in purple jackets with white wild hair and red face paint

Lanes like this one anchored Black communities in South LA for decades

" A red pentagon shape frames white bowling pins with red stripes being struck by a black ball marked "66

Kings Bowl - Millbrae, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt appleton These animated figuresKings Bowl stood at the corner of El Camino Real and Millbrae Avenue, a gathering place forged in the postwar bowling boom of the 1950s. Millbrae was still finding its identity between San Francisco and the Peninsula suburbs. Lanes like this one gave a town its center, a place where neighbors became regulars and regulars became family. Part of our Retro Bowling collection, featuring the defunct alleys of yesteryear. The Details: Distressed golden tan