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Preserving history: Bill Chrisman buys Memory Lanes Bowling Museum of Omaha, moves it to Storm Products in Utah

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Friday, November 27, 2020 8:00 am
Preserving history: Bill Chrisman buys Memory Lanes Bowling Museum of Omaha, moves it to Storm Products in Utah
Part of the huge bowling ball collection at Memory Lanes Bowling Museum in Omaha in 2013. Photo by J.C. Cramer.
Memory Lanes Bowling Museum, a treasure I toured and wrote about in 2013, was facing an uncertain future with the “retirement” of co-founder Ted Baer. But it found a new home at Storm Products headquarters in Utah when Storm founder and owner Bill Chrisman bought it from co-founder J.C. Cramer and moved it from its original home in Omaha, Nebraska. The free museum, a decades-long labor of love of Baer and Cramer, features hundreds of undrilled bowling balls, pins, memorabilia and...