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The Moolah Temple

Posted by East MobileBooth on September 11, 2005, from St. Louis, Missouri

On the way to and from the booth, we’d been noticing this dramatic building: the Moolah Temple. A place of worship? A museum of Egyptian relics? The meeting hall of some secret society? We decided to explore and were pleased to discover that it’s…

A bowling alley! Built in 1912 for the Shriners, the Temple was recently converted into an entertainment complex, also housing a movie theatre. Above, facilitator Rani Shankar, bowling under her nom du pin “Trixie”, tries for the spare on the “New York” lane.

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