Triple Strike

A painted backglass showing a mid-century bowling alley interior, framed by a plain olive-green outer border. The background above the alley is a fan of wide radiating stripes in red, cream and pale olive, with a flat red disc (a sun or ball) at upper left. Across the upper right sits a cream-and-green sign frame carrying a red script wordmark with a circled letter at its left, above two stacked plaques: an olive plaque with cream block letters and a green plaque with large red block letters outlined in cream. At upper left a horizontal chrome-edged score window holds five mechanical digit reels on a white strip, with a blue-grey reflector panel and a grille of black vent slats beneath it. The main scene is a busy group bowling alley: two parallel wooden lanes with dark gutters run left to right, a blue divider wall and scoring machine at mid-left, and white pins standing at the far end. A red ball return and a red-topped scoring console with a small white number card sit at right. Around eight figures are scattered on the approaches. In the left foreground a dark-haired young man in a pale yellow short-sleeved shirt sits with his back to us. Beside him a woman with a short auburn bob wears a rose-pink blouse and lime-green trousers, chin resting on her hand, staring down the lane. Next to her a man in a cream shirt with red trim and black hair leans in to talk to her. In the right foreground, a blonde person in a blue-and-white patterned top is seen from behind. Behind them, a woman in a yellow top and pink shorts holds a dark ball at her hip, a man in a green shirt and dark trousers walks, and men in white and red shirts stand further back. Along the bottom edge a red-and-white vertically striped panel carries lettering on a cream band.