FIRESIDE BOWLING MOVIE
FIRESIDE BOWLING TV

The green A’s helmet and orange Astros stand out the most in the entire AL, along with the White Sox. Knowing which division you’re looking at and using the helmet colors and logo shapes, it’s pretty easy to ID this group: Angels, A’s, Astros, Mariners, Rangers. And there is more evidence of that to come. That red White Sox helmet also suggests that the bulk of this collection at the Fireside is from the ’70s, perhaps the original 24 from ’74. So that gives us an order of Indians, White Sox, Royals, Tigers, Twins. The Indians and Twins have or have had alternate caps that in that color, but thanks to a photo on Lichtenberg’s site of an original 1974 collection of helmets, it’s clear that red helmet is the White Sox. The seventh helmet from the left, the second in the AL Central, is red - but no team currently in the division has a primarily red helmet or cap. This is where things get a little tricky. It also helps that those four teams’ logos have pretty much stayed the same since the advent of sundae helmets. Once you realize that this is the AL East, it’s not hard to pick out the last four of those teams, based on the helmet color, the blurry logos and the color in the logo. We initially started identifying teams starting on the right and moving left, because the logos are clearer on the right, but process of elimination led us to the conclusion that the five helmets on the left are the AL East: Rays, Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays and Orioles. Click on any of the team names to see the variations over the years at Lichtenberg’s site. With the help of Eric Lichtenberg’s sundae helmet resource, let’s take a look. They’re arranged by division: AL East, Central, West NL West, Central, East.Īnd that’s how we were able to figure out the helmets where the logos were indistinguishable and to realize that this collection is most likely a mixture of original 1970s helmets supplemented with newer ones, particularly for the 1990s expansion teams. It didn’t take long for the pattern to emerge.

FIRESIDE BOWLING MOVIE

We paused the movie and started identifying the ones we could see clearly. So what does a midcentury bowling alley have to do with baseball? In a quick view of the bar, I spotted above the beer bottles and below a shelf of toy trucks, a line of helmets - a complete collection of ice cream sundae helmets. Daniel Kaluuya watches Viola Davis walk out of Fireside Bowl on W. While I’ve never been there, it just had the feel of some place I’d seek out. One of my favorite things about “The Blacklist” on NBC is trying to figure out which New York neighborhood they’re using as a stand-in for Washington, D.C.Īnd so while watching “Widows,” the 2018 Steve McQueen movie starring Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez about the wives of thieves who put together a heist following the deaths of their husbands, I was struck by the entrance of Fireside Bowl in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. I’m also always scanning the locations of scenes that aren’t shot on a sound stage, at least in projects filmed in cities I know. There are times when the hair on the back of my next stands up to hear a reference to the Dodgers or Babe Ruth when it’s not expected.

FIRESIDE BOWLING TV

I’ve developed this sixth sense when watching movies and TV shows to spot baseball references in the background or to pick up on them in lines of dialogue. Technically located in Logan Square, people in Bucktown, Wicker Park, Lincoln Park and all over Chicago have found their way to Fireside Bowl.Back of the bar at Fireside Bowl in Chicago. This newly renovated bowling alley has maintained the original look and feel of the past with updates to the scoring equipment and amenities. Fireside Bowl remains increasingly popular by staying true to the game of bowling in the city of Chicago. Lately with all of the disco bowling and light shows and glow in the dark bowling, it has become increasingly difficult to find a place with that true Chicago bowling alley feel. While many Bowling Alleys in Chicago wound up closing, Fireside Bowl has remained open for over 60 years in Logan Square. Fireside Bowl flourished, during the 50’s and 60’s until the factories started closing and many people moved to the suburbs.įireside Bowl changed along with the times and was a source of entertainment all along the way. Everybody was in at least one bowling league with people from work or church. At that time Bowling was very popular, Chicago being a blue collar town, was a bowling mecca. Fireside Bowl is an original family owned Chicago Bowling Alley established in the 1940’s.

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