The Holiday Bowl is a bowling alley at Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1958 by five Japanese-Americans and is an important part of the process of rebuilding the Nikkei community after detention during World War II. Holiday Bowl owners sell shares across the community to finance their construction. "
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Cultural significance
Located on Crenshaw Boulevard, the Holiday Bowl is crucial in the desegregation of Los Angeles and serves Anglo American, African American and Japanese American customers. The coffee shop serves grits, udon, chow mein, and hamburger. The Bowl operates four decades, and is a cultural, architectural, and recreational feature for the Crenshaw district "like the Hollywood Bowl for the Hollywood Hills".
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History
The Bowl was built by Japanese businessmen as a combination of bowling, pool hall, bar and coffee shop in 1958 and serving the Japanese population of Crenshaw who "shortly suffered from Manzanar's internment camp and racial blanket by the Bowling Congress of America." A Los Angeles Times magazine story noted: "After being haunted at 4 am by aerospace workers in the swing-shift and nighthawk of Central Avenue jazz musicians, the Holiday Bowl, like Leimert Park in the south, remains a concrete expression of the community in an era when the whole idea of ​​community has been lifted to a level of abstraction. "A LA story in 1999 said," Holiday talks about Crenshaw's bright and long-lasting middle-class dreams, with its 50s-inspired orange-and-green tower and giant glass windows that give a magnificent view of Baldwin Hills to the south eating grits and eating your heart. "The article also states that Bowl ownership changed hands several times and offered" a huge ethnic chunk: Japanese (saifun, yakisoba, donburi), Chinese (assorted chow mein, pork noodle, foo yong) and Southern black (hot links, grits, salmon patties, short ribs, biscuits and gravy). "
The owner says he is proud of the power of Holiday, in its history, and the fact that it was designed by Armet & Davis, "an architectural firm that popularized Googie-style coffee shops and transformed visitors like the nearby Holiday and Wich Stand into a zig-zaggy symbol of L.A. optimism." He said the building was undamaged during the 1992 Los Angeles riots and that people were fascinated that night.
Architecture
Holiday Bowl is considered an example of Googie architecture and designed by Armet & amp; Company architecture Davis. The company is said to have "defined 'the Googie 50's architecture". Helen Liu Fong is a designer at Armet & amp; Davis is credited with designing the Holiday Bowl.
The Bowl is photographed in a stereo to watch 3-D by Jack Laxer.
Closure
The Bowl closed in 2000 and is targeted to be destroyed. Bowl supporters are mobilized, persuading the Los Angeles City Culture Commission to point out the structure of a historical-cultural monument. It's listed as number 688 on the Los Angeles City Culture Historic History list.
Revilization
The bowling front area was previously refurbished in October 2004 and replaced by a modern outdoor shopping mall anchored by Walgreens which opened in early 2006. The former Coffee Shop has become Starbucks Coffee and other restaurants from the former alleys and neon lights from a nearby Honda/Pontiac car dealer who famous has been improved. Preservationists want this landmark to be stored because of its history, cultural significance, and architectural history.
References
External links
Media related to the Holiday Bowl (building) on ​​Wikimedia Commons
- Not Boling Alone: ​​How the Holiday Bowl at Crenshaw Became an Integrated Recreation Room [2]
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