{"id":17665,"date":"2015-10-03T02:36:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2015-10-03T02:59:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T02:59:28","slug":"lucky-strike-bowling-alleys-birmingham-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2015\/10\/03\/lucky-strike-bowling-alleys-birmingham-al\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys &#8211; Birmingham, AL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/alabama\/birmingham-al-lucky-strike-bowling01.jpg?resize=580%2C327\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/alabama\/birmingham-al-lucky-strike-bowling02.jpg?resize=580%2C327\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Are you feeling Lucky?<\/p>\n<p>A piece of 1970s-era facade recently disappeared from the corner of the former Red Cross headquarters building downtown, revealing an old &#8220;Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys&#8221; sign underneath.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Charles Simpson<\/strong>, whose Brookmont Realty Group is marketing the building at 2225 Third Avenue North, said the culprit was a thief who probably used a crowbar to try and steal a piece of the stone siding. But what he really did was uncover a little bit of history.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>According to city directories kept at the Linn-Henley Research Library, the Lucky Strike bowling alley was located next door to the Red Cross building, at 2217 Third Ave. North, from 1941 through 1948. That location now is a parking lot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>That bowling alley was hardly alone. Just prior to World War II bowling was big in Birmingham, and there were at least half a dozen alleys nearby in what amounted to a bowling district.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The vacant, former Red Cross headquarters was built sometime in the 1940s, Simpson said, but got its current look when it was expanded in the &#8217;70s. So that sign may have spent 40 years in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>This item was published in The Insider, a weekly column in The Birmingham News Business section.\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; Stan Diel &#8211; \u00a0February 24, 2011 [taken from alabama.com]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you feeling Lucky? A piece of 1970s-era facade recently disappeared from the corner of the former Red Cross headquarters building downtown, revealing an old &#8220;Lucky Strike Bowling Alleys&#8221; sign underneath. Charles Simpson, whose Brookmont Realty Group is marketing the building at 2225 Third Avenue North, said the culprit was a thief who probably used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2628,2177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birmingham-al","category-bowling-alleys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4AV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}