"Our town, Brown[town], had a population of about 800 to 1000, and some seven or eight saloons, three Dry Goods and Clothing, two bakeries, four or five restaurants and hotels, seven or eight groceries, one bowling alley, two or three butcher shops, and three of four blacksmith shops. Two Dance or Fancy houses, music in ours and the dance houses, sometimes in the bowling alley."
This is an excerpt from The Golden Frontier, the recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851 - 1869
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This is an entertaining book - to say the least. Lots of stories and little tidbits about life in the early days of Josephine County. A bowling alley!
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