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Holiday Bowl History Project
The Holiday Bowl History Project
3-D Model: Pragya Tomar, Kristin Hargrove, David Balian, Jeremy Clifton
Database designs: Chris Kampmeier
Documentary: Edward Mejia
Researchers: Laura Barraclough, Nicole Padilla, Katherine Seymour, Marie Singson
Principal Investigator: Sharon Sekhon
Launched in the Spring of 2004, the Holiday Bowl History Project began as a series of conversations about Los Angeles history, bowling, preservation, and the Holiday Bowl, a popular bowling alley in the Crenshaw area of Los Angeles. Founded in 1958 by five Japanese Americans, the Holiday Bowl was part of the process of rebuilding the Nikkei community after Internment; the owners sold shares throughout the community in order to finance its construction. Given the Bowl’s location on Crenshaw, it was important in the desegregation of Los Angeles, as it served an Anglo American, African American, and Japanese American clientele. The coffee shop, for example, featured grits, udon, chow mein, and hamburgers. Due to poor management, however, the Bowl closed in 2000 and was targeted for demolition. Bowl supporters mobilized, persuading the City of Los Angeles’s Cultural Heritage Commission to designate the structure an historical-cultural monument. Using oral history and digital assets, this project explores the feelings of community that the Holiday Bowl fostered and the profound sense of loss many experienced when it closed.
Launch the Holiday Bowl Project History Project
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