When: December 29th @ 8pm
Where: Pickwick Bowl 1001 Riverside Drive, Burbank (map)
A group of local bloggers (and some members of GHOULA) are meeting to bowl and have a good time. All are invited. Although, this event is open to the public, individuals are expected to pay for their own games and shoe rentals if they plan to bowl.
Although Pickwick Bowl has no ghost stories attached to it, at least none that the staff will admit to (update: for ghost story click here.), the historic bowling alley does have a connection to the "ghost culture" of Southern California.
Pickwick Bowl was the inspiration for one of the audio-animatronic "happy haunts" from Disneyland's Haunted Mansion. There used to be a sign in front of this leisure complex that featured a caricature of "Pickwick," the Dicken's character (and this establishment's mascot). It seems that Imagineers that would commute to work at WED enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) just a few blocks away decided to pay tribute to the cheerful fellow on the sign they past everyday. Thus, in the ballroom scene of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, a ghost hanging from a chandelier (also known by the name "Pickwick") was created to match the one at Pickwick Bowl.
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