Cove Bowl - Wilmington, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Long Sleeve T-Shirt amsterdam A red and white menu

A red and white menu panel below lists "1/4 POUND PLUS ALL BEEF HOT DOG AND 20 oz

the kind of place that defined suburban dining through the 1970s and 1980s

" A house with a reddish-brown roof sits center

and only one made it onto the currency

Cove Bowl - Wilmington, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Long Sleeve T-Shirt amsterdam A red and white menuCove Bowl stood along Pacific Coast Highway in Wilmington, California, a harbor town where longshoremen and dockworkers unwound after grueling shifts. Operating through the mid twentieth century, it served a tight knit working class community built around the port. Some alleys belonged to their neighborhoods so completely they became landmarks no one thought to question. Part of our Vintage Los Angeles collection, featuring the iconic local landmarks