The Last Pin Setter - Setting the Record Straight
Here is a great story by Jack Tenney, publisher of Business People Vermont. It is the story of Jack's days in Enid as a thirteen year old boy and his job as a pin setter...
The story
This story was brought to our attention by another Enid pin setter, Marion Mackey. He wanted to set the record straight on where Enid's first bowling alley was located. Here's a note from Marion:
I just read Jack Tenney's story about Enid's first bowling alley. It said it was upstairs over the stores at the northwest corner of Broadway and Grand. I remember it well. However, it was on the NW corner of Independence and Broadway. If it were on the NW corner of Grand and Broadway it would have been on the courthouse lawn.
It was above the old Sanford Frazier Drugstore. I think there is a carpet store there now. The bowling alley was where a law firm is now.
I used to help a friend of mine set pins. The bowling alley
was at the back. Up front were pool and snooker tables.
Marion Mackey
Berlin, New Hampshire

The building. According to the story Enid's first bowling alley was located upstairs in the white building on the left. It is now occupied with attorneys offices.
Does anyone have any photos of Enid's first bowling alley??
The story
This story was brought to our attention by another Enid pin setter, Marion Mackey. He wanted to set the record straight on where Enid's first bowling alley was located. Here's a note from Marion:
I just read Jack Tenney's story about Enid's first bowling alley. It said it was upstairs over the stores at the northwest corner of Broadway and Grand. I remember it well. However, it was on the NW corner of Independence and Broadway. If it were on the NW corner of Grand and Broadway it would have been on the courthouse lawn.
It was above the old Sanford Frazier Drugstore. I think there is a carpet store there now. The bowling alley was where a law firm is now.
I used to help a friend of mine set pins. The bowling alley
was at the back. Up front were pool and snooker tables.
Marion Mackey
Berlin, New Hampshire

Does anyone have any photos of Enid's first bowling alley??


















1 Comments:
In 1947 my brother, Leon Freeman was
a pin setter at a bowling alley on the south side of the square. He thinks that it was called Al's. That was the person he worked for.It was located close to Kress store across from what is now the new library.
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