Wyoming Bowling Center History

Emery Hotel Bowling Alley, Thermopolis WY

Status:	Dead
Opened:	November 3, 1907
Closed:	June 1914
Names:	Emery Hotel Bowling Alley (Nov 3, 1907 - Jun 1914)
# of Lanes:	2 (Nov 3, 1907 - Jun 1914)
Lane Surface:	Wood (Nov 3, 1907 - Jun 1914)
Pinsetters:	Handset (Nov 3, 1907 - Jun 1914)
Factoids:	Robert L. Talbot (Talbott), owner and manager of the bowling alleys and billiard room, committed suicide in 1917 by ingesting rat poison.
Images:	Cheyenne State Leader Newspaper: 01-08-1909, 03-03-1909 #1 #2 Thermopolis Independent Newspaper: 05-10-1907, 07-26-1907, 11-29-1907, 12-06-1907, 12-27-1907, 06-12-1914 Thermopolis Record Newspaper: 08-24-1907, 11-02-1907, 11-23-1907, 09-08-1908, 01-02-1909, 01-02-1909 #2, 01-09-1909, 01-09-1909 #2, 01-16-1909, 01-15-1910, 02-23-1911, 12-07-1911, 12-14-1911, 12-21-1911 & 12-28-1911, 01-01-1914, 01-29-1914, 02-15-1917 Worland Grit Newspaper: 07-25-1907, 02-23-1917, 09-06-1917, 09-20-1917 & 10-04-1917 Polk Directory (Wyoming and Idaho): 1908 #1 AD #2 Misc: Emery Hotel 1909 (J. E. Stimson photo), Emery Hotel 1913 (postcard),