The Shawnee Country Club bowling team featured Joan Mercer, from left, Marjorie Wood, Glenn Garrett and Betty Maloney as they attended a women’s bowling tournament in Nov. 1939.

South Carolina's 810 Billiards & Bowling expects to open its first Florida location in Estero. Plans also call for adding five more in the state.

“We opened this place with just ten tables and six bowling lanes, and that’s all we had to start,” Thomas said. In 1963, his father, Earl, took over what used to be a roller skating rink.