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Title: Bowling for Dollars
Date: 1979-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: From Gutter to Glory: Broski 'Kingpin' with Something to Spare
Description: Article about Kansas City television weather forecaster Fred Broski and his successful local game show "Bowling for Dollars," with cultural significance as "a sort of daily edition of the book 'Working' by Studs Terkel." Detailed biography also of Fred Broski, born in about 1936 near "16th and Bennington" streets on the East Side in Kansas City, growing up in the Northeast, and starting work at the All-Brite Galvanizing division of the Broski Brothers business, before doing part-time radio and then television work in nearby cities in the 1960s.
Date: 1975-08-03
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bowling League - Men's Division
Description: Group portrait of the Men's Division of the South Central Business Association Bowling League at Clifford-Tessman Alleys. N. Emerson Paton is seated in the middle of the first row.
Date: 1942
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team - Firestone Service Company
Description: Group portrait of members of the Firestone Service Company bowling team with trophy, identified as the 1933-34 champions of the South Central Business Association Bowling League.
Date: 1934
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team with Trophy
Description: Unidentified group portrait of male bowling team with trophy at unidentified location.
Date: 1957
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team - French Rug Cleaners
Description: Group portrait of the French Rug Cleaners bowling team, identified as the South Central Business Association Men's Bowling League 1946-47 champions.
Date: 1947
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team Award
Description: Unidentified group portrait of a male championship bowling team with trophy at unidentified location.
Date: 1959
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team - Threshold Service Company
Description: Group portrait of members of the Threshold Service Company bowling team, identified as the 1930-31 champions of the South Central Business Association.
Date: 1931
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Sally Rand
Description: Casual group portrait of Sally Rand and unidentified group of men at unidentified bowling alley. Does include N. Emerson Paton in the photograph.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Trophy Presentation
Description: R. C. Ahlstrom (R.), president of the South Kansas City Civic Association, presenting championship trophy to N. B. Cresswell, captain of the South Central Business Association bowling team which won the South Kansas City Civic Association's bowling championship.
Date: 1932
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team
Description: Identified as the South Central Business Association Championship Bowling Team. Members identified left to right as: Robert Granger, Oland Sloan (Capt.), Lloyd Berry, George Raddant, and John Millar.
Date: 1958
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling League Award
Description: Margaret Pence, president of the Women's Bowling League, receives trophy from Carl Fouty (right). SCBA president Eldon C. Donovan (left).
Date: 1958-05
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Royal Jones
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Royal Jones; photo autographed as "To N. Emerson Paton (The best club secretary I know) From Royal Jones (The best bowling league secretary he knows) August 1946".
Date: 1946
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team with Trophy
Description: Unidentified group portrait of men's bowling team with trophy.
Date: 1930~/1939~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Alley
Description: Interior view of an empty bowling alley.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Negative

Title: Bowling Team
Description: Unidentified group portrait of men identified as the champions of the South Central Business Association Bowling League.
Date: 1930~/1939~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: A 1940s Pastime
Description: Photo of the Plaza Bowl on Nichols Road as it looked in the 1940s. It was closed following the 1977 Brush Creek flood.
Date: 1997
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Holy Rollers
Description: Brief article describing the bowling alley in the basement of St. John's Catholic Club in Strawberry Hill, a neighborhood near downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The bowling alley has been in continuous operation for over 60 years.
Date: 2004-01-08
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Bowling Team with Trophy
Description: Group portrait of male bowling team with trophy at unidentified location; individual team members identified on back of photograph. Phot also found in Scrapbook #37, 1961, on page 29 and noted as 1960-61 Champions of the General Typewriter Company in the SCBA Men's Bowling League, Vito Randazzo, Sponsor.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Bowling Team Award
Description: Trophy presentation to women's bowling team at unidentified location. Photograph also found in Scrapbook #37, 1961, page 35 and identified as Champion Team bowlers in SCBA Bowling League of the Women's Division for 1960-61. The Linwood State Bank Team was composed of Fern Mitchell (captain), Mary Bradshaw, Harry Decker (presenting trophy), B. Magers, A. Wheeler, G. Wheeler.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Photograph

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