It’s a persistent question for people today: What is that “third place” where you spend your time that is neither home nor workplace and allows you to connect with community? For many women in 1960, the answer was the bowling alley. That year LIFE published a story titled “The Social Whirl of Ladies’ Bowling” which ... Read more The post When Bowling Was Women’s “Greatest Social Center Since the Back Fence” appeared first on LIFE .