The St. Louis I Never Saw--Bowling Capital of the Western World!

I got to see a lot in the month while I was in Missouri. I got to go to two Cardinals games, visit the wine country, eat in "Oprah's Favorite Restaurant" *as identified by Patt-uh-son, go up the arch, wander around in Soulard, take full advantage of the "tasting bar" at the Budweiser factory, and listen to a heck of a lot of jazz. But the only thing I didn't get to do was play a frame or two of bowling at the sacred site for pin monkeys, the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame.

Thankfully, the Steffens Collective was able to squeeze in a game or two while their plane was delayed. The following pictures, taken by Noreen Steffens, are as close as I'll ever come to seeing a giant bowling pin car.

How did they score? Everyone is a winner at the IBMAHOF!

For more, see the official site: http://www.bowlingmuseum.com/

There you can find the answers to these pressing questions:

When was the American Bowling Congress founded?
When was bowling a part of the Olympics?
In France today there are how manydifferent types of bowling being played?

Did you know: A British anthropologist, Sir Flinders Petrie, discovered in the 1930's a collection of objects in a child's grave in Egypt that appeared to him to be used for a crude form of bowling. If he was correct, then bowling traces its ancestry to 3200 BC.

Or that German historian, William Pehle, asserted that bowling began in his country about 300 AD. There is substantial evidence that a form of bowling was in vogue in England in 1366, when King Edward III allegedly outlawed it to keep his troops focused on archery practice. And it is almost certain that bowling was popular during the reign of Henry VIII.