Westchester Bowl v2 - Bakersfield, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt crisfield poker chips and playing cards

poker chips and playing cards scattered on the table surface

Baseball clubs like this one gave small agricultural towns a sense of pride that extended far beyond the diamond

Judge Smails' hat is a war crime against taste that somehow demands a compliment

accumulating quiet power one master key at a time

known for carhop service and bold Googie architecture

Westchester Bowl v2 - Bakersfield, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt crisfield poker chips and playing cardsWestchester Bowl anchored Thirtieth Street in Bakersfield through the postwar decades, when bowling alleys doubled as neighborhood social halls. Opening in the 1950s, its Duck Blind cocktail lounge kept the drinks cold between frames. Lanes like these defined California leisure before the suburbs moved on. Part of our Retro Bowling collection, featuring the defunct alleys of yesteryear. The Details: Orange script text reads "Duck Blind" beside black