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Originally Posted by Ken E
"...My grandfather used to run it and i remember my mother telling me how she used to set bowling pins by hand..."
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In the 60s, there was a "candlepin" bowling alley in Melvin Village. The setting of pins was electric and automatic, but every once in a while, a "mystery hand" would emerge—startling us—and set a pin upright.
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Originally Posted by Pineedles
"...From the description it sounds like it wasn't really a "casino" as we all envision today as a Foxwoods or Taj but a place people could have fun in those activities deemed "wicked", like bowling or dancing.  I hope you can share some of the stories that you were told. |
In one of Camp Wyanoke's wooden sailboats, my Dad would sail from Camp Wyanoke to the Casino in the late 30s. That adventure was a 16-mile round-trip
by sail, and no motor.
The return trip was made late at night, but I am under family censure if I disclose the possibility of an absence of navigation lights!
