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ITEM 8 · THE YABA LINE BANKED IN FAIRS-CIVIC; THE REST AT ITS DOCUMENTED SIZE
The bowling chapter opens on the one hard line the banked set holds — and the line is a register entry, not a building. What stands: youth bowling's sanctioning record touches the town — the Young American Bowling Alliance's register carries a Walkerton line of August 1999 — proof that organized youth bowling, with its leagues and its sanctioned averages, ran here at the century's end. What does not stand: the alley itself. No bowling house's course — its lanes, its opening, its pinsetters' era, its closing — is documented for Walkerton in the canvasses or record reached, and the item refuses to build a building around a register line: whether the sanctioned youth bowled in a Walkerton house since closed or in a league seated across the township line is not established by the line, and prints as the item's named question (settler: the YABA/ABC sanction records' center field, and the directories of the 1990s). The arcade half runs at the same register strength: no arcade, game room, or video-rental-era amusement house is documented at a Walkerton address in the record reached; the town's video-age amusement furniture is the library's and school's programming of their own files. The item closes MIXED: the register line DUG and printed at its exact strength, the alley a named residue, the arcade a documented absence.
Principal sources: this history (the YABA register line, August 1999); the canvasses and directories as reached; the sanction records named as settler for the center.