PV Bowl - Watsonville, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Women's T-Shirt vintage holding a bat in a

holding a bat in a batting stance

That illustration survived longer than the building

Minor league clubs like these gave coastal communities something to rally around before television changed everything

representing a steel town where baseball belonged to working people

Art Weingartner

PV Bowl - Watsonville, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Women's T-Shirt vintage holding a bat in aPV Bowl stood as Watsonville's around the clock gathering place, a 24 lane house on Arthur Road that never locked its doors. Opening during the mid century bowling boom of the 1950s, it gave California's central coast a place to belong at any hour. Some alleys were businesses. PV Bowl was a neighborhood. Part of our Retro Bowling collection, featuring the defunct alleys of yesteryear. The Details: Brown and golden yellow block letters "PV" sit against