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I’m not a bowler. But I AM a bowling-kitsch-artifact collector crazy person. Bowling was THE happy-go-lucky, stylish, social sport of the 1950’s. So it follows that I would like anything that involves bowling balls and the accoutrements that accompany it, even occasionally lifting the ball myself and tossing it down the lane for the inevitable gutter ball.
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Well, at least I had balls. I love the sound, feel and aesthetics of a bowling alley. I love the balls, the shoes, the snack bar, the tables you sit at to keep score. And over the years, other than the snack bar, I’ve collected a lot of it. I have bowling coin purses…
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…a bowling pin lamp…
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…a bowling pin bottle opener…
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… bowling balls in my garden…
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… bowling tables in my home…
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… a wide assortment of bowling coffee mugs…
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… bowling shoes…
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…and a bowling ball brush.
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I even use bowling trophies as door handles in my house…
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…and have them carved into the floor.
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That’s my kitchen floor, above which the Bowler’s Coffee Cup featured today sits in a cupboard stocked with other vintage cups.
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I drink out of the bowling cup a lot because it cheers me up when I stagger into the kitchen bleary-eyed every morning.
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I love all the graphics on this cup.
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Less thought out than the graphics, however, was the color used to create them. I love when people who design things don’t think about the product in full use, in this case coffee being poured into the cup and lessening the effect substantially.
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And that’s a real gutter ball.
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