At one time it seems as though you couldn’t have swung a dead cat in Chicago without hitting a bowling alley. J.R. Schmidt, the history blogger for WBEZ, has a great site featuring a lot of these past locations: http://bowlinghistory.wordpress.com/about-this-blog/ Shown here is the Calo Bowl in Andersonville (5404 N Clark) around 1965 or so, which was a turn of the 20th century movie theater. The building still stands and is now the Brown Elephant Thrift Store.

At one time it seems as though you couldn’t have swung a dead cat in Chicago without hitting a bowling alley. J.R. Schmidt, the history blogger for WBEZ, has a great site featuring a lot of these past locations: http://bowlinghistory.wordpress.com/about-this-blog/

Shown here is the Calo Bowl in Andersonville (5404 N Clark) around 1965 or so, which was a turn of the 20th century movie theater. The building still stands and is now the Brown Elephant Thrift Store.

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    IS THAT WHAT IT WAS??? Man, I was in the Brown Elephant this spring and for the first time maybe ever I looked around at...
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