A teammate sent me an IG about bowling being ruined. It was long. It is like a documentary and features Alhambra Valley Bowling Alley and also clips of the CEO of the Lucky Strike Corporation.

We had league last night in a bowling alley that looks a lot like the one that I learned to bowl in when I was 8-years-old without the overhead projectors used for hand scoring and the Tempest video game.

We were there because our alley where we’ve bowled most seasons was closed.

The HVAC has been problematic there for at least 2-years. Lately, it’s been in the mid-80s in the alley and it gets like a sauna because it was remodeled to encourage standing and drinking with little room and weirdly oversized vinyl seating around the ball return.

I’m worried that what they’re doing isn’t fixing the broken AC, but rather installing strings to the pins.

Modern bowling alleys look a lot like bars with sensory overload or a casino–you also don’t have a classic pinsetter.

There are wires attached to the pins which theoretically set them faster.

When we bowled at an alley in a suburb last week as our team has summer passes, the wires kept failing over and over to set the pins at all, so we had to find an employee to set them the OG way by going behind back of the lane and performing some manual tasks.

I learned in the IG documentary that these wires also decrease the possibility of throwing a strike by 30%.

I personally have to throw my ball in a slightly different area of the lane to get strikes and can do it now, but I don’t like the wires.

I’m hoping that it’s not one-thousand degrees in the alley next Monday and they’ve just added the wires.

I’m thinking about dedicating some work in my blog to things that I miss. Classic pinsetters is one thing.

Another thing is that I don’t like my Voice over Internet Protocol phones. I miss my landline like crazy.

Does anybody have opinions about dark bowling alleys with large screen TVs distracting your game and wired pins?