Talk:Pin bowling

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Will complete scoring section once template for bowling scores is complete. --Robert W King 17:46, 3 October 2007 (CDT) See template:bowlingscoresheet. --Robert W King 00:30, 5 October 2007 (CDT)

I think Robert is sitting in the bowling alley using wireless and his laptop to write this, camera at side. :D Stephen Ewen 23:38, 1 November 2007 (CDT)

HA!!! Actually I'm at home, but I debated on uploading the reset button image. I determined it was probably significant enough since it's still used today (and I mentioned it in the articlespace). But I don't think I got any strange looks while I was photographing since it did it kinda slyly. Oh, and until I get a better one, all my images are taken with the LG vx9900 enV, but I'm trying to get a hold of a Samsung SCHA990 which has a 3.2 megapixel camera on it! --Robert W King 23:41, 1 November 2007 (CDT)

The funny thing is, I went to the bowling alley expressly to take photos, and then get a few games in. I ended up taking like 20 pictures in various lighting modes and angles to get the ones I wanted. --Robert W King 23:45, 1 November 2007 (CDT)

A couple of comments

• I cleaned up the food paragraph but didn't touch the equipment paragraphs in which you also use the second-person "you" fairly frequently. I myself am definitely against this usage in this sort of encyclopediac venture because of its "informality", for lack of a better word. And I *think* I saw, a month ago, a comment by Larry to someone about an article in which he said that the "you"s should be changed. You might check with him about this, however.

• You're too young to remember, and I hardly recall it myself, but there was a period in the 1960s and 70s, I believe, in which bowling was a *growth industry*, almost like the dot com bubble! AMB (American Bowling or some such) was a high-flying stock worth billions as alleys opened left and right. And then it all collapsed. I really think that before you ask for approved status for this article that it should have a *history* of bowling included. For instance, when I was kid, and tried to roll my first game at age 7 or 8, almost 60 years ago, bowling was a *very* marginal sport, associated, I would say, with the truly "lower orders". In the late 50s it certainly enjoyed some growth and became better known because of television. And then in the 60s it exploded, at least for a while. Some mention, and some statistics about all of this should be included. I think I remember reading for years that more people bowled than participated in any other sport, maybe than in *all* other sports combined....

• Plus, now that I think of it, some history indicating the *origins* of modern bowling. From "boules", for instance, and "bocce", and "petanque" and God knows what else.... Hayford Peirce 17:02, 2 November 2007 (CDT)

One thing I see lacking here is info about bowling's greats. Stephen Ewen 22:19, 4 November 2007 (CST)

I am unable to write anything about the "history" of bowling because I'm a skeptic of everything I've read about it so far (mostly because to me, it sounds made-up), so I will have to defer that duty to someone else.

As far as the greats, and industry history, I suppose I can cover that. --Robert W King 22:26, 4 November 2007 (CST)

Let me see what I can find from some academic databases. There's got to be a ligit history of bowling. Stephen Ewen 00:13, 5 November 2007 (CST)

Stephen, thanks for the resources. I was able to extract about half-a-page of mostly relevant material to some aspects from history of bowling itself, but I'm not sure how to integrate it. Surely, though, I need more legitimate information before a total history profile can be written. --Robert W King 11:40, 5 November 2007 (CST)