Googie is defined by a futuristic ... English described the drawn-out efforts to preserve the building. The bowling alley, constructed in the 1950s, had been a hub for Black and Asian residents ...

He has long championed commercial architecture, like coffee shops from the Googie era, that critics used to ignore. Bowling alleys didn’t get respect either. “They were there, everybody went ...

In “Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling Alleys,” Chris Nichols and Adriene Biondo dig into a sorely unheralded golden age when Googie design flourished and bowling alleys served ...