Extra Extra: The great Kellogg Bowl just before the wrecking ball arrived
It was a haunting visit to a bowling alley, in Milwaukee, Oregon, not long before it met its maker.
In May 2021, I visited the Kellogg Bowl in Milwaukie, Oregon. It had been closed for about five months, and boy, it sure hurt to see such midcentury beauty and know it was doomed. It was especially hard to know I’d never get a chance to step inside this Camelot-era time capsule.
This bowling alley was announced in January 1962, when bowling was big in …
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