Setting Bowling Alley Pins in the 50's

Bowling alleys automatic pin setters from the day before, they used a rack that throw the pin, so be a lever to push down the pins set in the correct position. The young man that likes a little excitement provided a good job. His bowling pin setter, the ball will come crashing down the street would sit on the edge of the pit to clear feet. Time all the pins will be in the pit, but sometimes they fly out and you were not aware you could be hit most.

Will throw the ball before the bowler, pin setter, the ball will pick up and place it back on the rail, so fast as he can, pick up pins and place them in the rack. If the pin setter was too slow and reached the ball before bowling pin setter bowling ball pit person can throw and catch you in the pit was through. They are usually in the pit below you can see, or maybe they can jump like you to see! We have a hand and sometimes a fifth between the two hands will learn to take two pins in the pin. If it was a strike, you hooked up the top two, five could pin each time to take all the pins. The object always to accomplish the task before the ball was heading back rack.

During slack times and waiting for the arrival of the bowlers, we gather around the pin ball machine and see who can rack the game. The soles of our boots before setting foot on the ball will roll slower, until it is bent, and the game ends. Figured out a couple games where the solenoid was located in the back and cut a hole there so we just by pushing in the right place can save a nickel.

In fact it was my first paying job when I got my social security card. We just Lakeland, Florida had the Englewood, moved to Tennessee. We are on the edge of town in a trailer park and a lot of lakes there was a live. It was a great place for a fifteen-year-old, I can swim and water ski. You just had to watch out for alligators. I have a very interesting friends there about my age, can not remember his name completion. He was a 15-year-old pilot and ham radio operator. He never took his plane up, but I'm sure he enjoyed listening to ham radio to speak to the world.

Years later I was working for Lockheed Aircraft, I Single Side Band C-141 cargo plane took a course on the radio and I use those hours we spent on ham radio about the thought back. I was working at Lockheed when the president was shot in Texas.

Now that I got my first job, I felt I could do anything and go anywhere and make a living. However, I was still only 15! School for me was a problem, it may be because we were so moved and I never in a school seem to be able to complete a full year. And I believe that I will be bored. I spent two years in seventh grade, two years was in eighth grade and ninth, when I gave it up and left home at 16 to start my second year.

Trailer park there is a problem child who ran away and there are a lot of how hard it was to house the young boy had a lot of talk about another family was. I was still 15 when we then Providence, went back to my hometown in Kentucky. I drive at the time of the day at the movie theater at night, cutting school and always getting into trouble on the side was working. Theater owners have rented their three-story house in Providence and we lived in the trailer parked behind the house. My little sister was growing up and the trailer bed room so I was the basement of the house was getting crowded.

I ride to work with theater owners and projection equipment will run all night until the last show was over. With two film reels of films in each box came in two boxes. We have our hands through the air the film before showing the film to be inspected for bad splices. If you had a bad marriage, the film will break or jam in the middle. Image on the screen to stop and will start to burn a hole in the middle. It would look really funny on screen. Then the horn every time you clean out the mess of the projector and then spliced ​​film will start flowing. During the second show one night, I made an error number is 3 reel 1 and reel number, followed by the number 2 and number 4 played with ended. No one complained, but if they were watching, I'm sure they were confused. I married a lot of time behind the cartoons or the news is and you will see walking down the sound track.

During the intermission time we sometimes have some kind of entertainment and a night we had a group that bought the junk cars and will jump at each other and crash in front of the big screen. They had trouble getting a 1948 Plymouth started that night and could not crash. I offered them $ 60.00 for my first car, but had no driver's license. You to be 16 in the state of Kentucky had obtained a license. After the show that night a friend to push me and we started the car so I can drive it home. Dad was a little worried that there could set it just in the back yard, until I was old enough to get a license.

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