Kings Bowl - Millbrae, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt Size:S Chet Ripley's hot dog ingredient

Chet Ripley's hot dog ingredient list is the kind of transparency no corporation would ever willingly adopt

Calling it "just add" implies the rest of the ingredients were already there

Golden-yellow and black circular badge with white stars flanking arched text reading "SPICOLI'S" at the top

A tiny village nobody can find on a map had better branding in 1952 than most startups do now

Arched distressed white block text reads "SPICOLI" above a vintage television illustration with rabbit ear antennas

Kings Bowl - Millbrae, CA - Vintage Bowling Alley - Unisex T-Shirt Size:S Chet Ripley's hot dog ingredientKings Bowl stood at the corner of El Camino Real and Millbrae Avenue, a gathering place forged in the postwar bowling boom of the 1950s. Millbrae was still finding its identity between San Francisco and the Peninsula suburbs. Lanes like this one gave a town its center, a place where neighbors became regulars and regulars became family. Part of our Retro Bowling collection, featuring the defunct alleys of yesteryear. The Details: Distressed golden tan