A NEW form of entertainment – and, in the view of our sister paper, the Evening Times, “practically a new way of life for many Glasgow people” – arrived in the summer of 1963.
The city was about to experience the joys of ten-pin bowling, with the opening of the £400,000, 32-lane Brunswick Hampden Bowl, at Mount Florida. “Scots people are too keen just to go and watch sport,” said the centre’s manager, Mitch Currie.
“Ten-pin bowling is the answer to this, because it is a sport that everyone can play.”
Brunswick’s advisory star bowler, Bob Guy, a former porter at London’s Smithfield market, was impressed by the large number of Glaswegians who had been receiving training over the last few days.