Wonder Bowl - Downey, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt movie Captain Freedom retiring from televised

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It was a gathering place that held a neighborhood together

Distressed light blue angular serif text reads "WATERBURY" across the top

Wonder Bowl - Downey, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt movie Captain Freedom retiring from televisedWonder Bowl opened in 1959 in Downey, California, as the neighborhood's living room with thirty two lanes. Southern California had hundreds of bowling alleys, but few held a community together the way Wonder Bowl did. Some places outlast trends because they mean something to the people who grew up inside them. Part of our Vintage Los Angeles collection, featuring the iconic local landmarks of yesteryear. The Details: Circular signs mounted on