Ask me for one of my most endearing visual memories of Halifax in the 1960s and 70s and I’d say the 14 foot high plastic bowling pin that graced the top of the Halifax Bowl at the junction of Broad Street and Orange Street. It seems like it was one of the most permanent features of the Halifax of my youth, but in fact, it was only in place for a little over a year. The bowling alley itself did survive the removal of its “plastic skittle”, but not by long. The building was converted into a supermarket in the late 1960’s and was later superseded by the Broad Street Plaza.
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