March 30, 2001
'Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks'
Remember "surly pin boys"? Probably not. But such characters were once common to the American bowling experience. Bowlers knew to expect taunts from the pits. Those were the cramped areas behind the alley beds where pinsetters -- usually called pin boys no matter what their age -- sent the ball back, cleared the fallen wood, and reset for each turn.
It was a simple but hazardous job, writes Andrew Hurley in Diners, Bowling Alleys, and Trailer Parks: Chasing the American Dream in
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