Crown Bowl - Long Beach, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt rad or held a community's loyalty

or held a community's loyalty that long

a Class D outfit in the tobacco heartland of North Carolina

holding a microphone in one hand

Distressed white retro-style lettering reads "BIGFOOT SAW ME" arched across the top

Red Solo cups and star-shaped sunglasses suggest the afterparty has been going on for about 160 years

Crown Bowl - Long Beach, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt rad or held a community's loyaltyCrown Bowl stood at 1301 East Artesia in Long Beach, a neighborhood alley that carried decades of league tradition through the postwar era. Opening in the 1950s, it became the kind of place where generations laced up rental shoes and settled rivalries one frame at a time. Some alleys were just buildings, but Crown Bowl was a gathering place. Part of our Vintage Los Angeles collection, featuring the iconic local landmarks of yesteryear. The Details: