2000.159.1

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1941
3.75 in HIGH x 3.25 in WIDE
(9.52 cm HIGH x 8.25 cm WIDE)
Gift of Deborah Cooper
2000.159.1






Pair of brown leather bowling shoes, lacing down to the toes using seven pairs of eyelets, and with white soles. A: Is the right shoe; B: is the left shoe. Laurie Cooper, mother of the donor, ordered this pair of bowling shoes, perhaps through a bowling alley in Minneapolis, MN, 1941. A group of her friends were learning to bowl and she participated as well. Bowling was a popular sports activity. After World War II Laurie moved to Southern California.

Used: Laurie Cooper | Bowling | Adult | Female

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