October 1957 -Suburbanite Bowl opened for business with new construction on Ogden Avenue and Washington Street in Westmont, Illinois. The original building included 16 lanes of bowling, a full service restaurant, a bar and lounge with live entertainment and a billiard room with regulation pool tables. Bowling was 35 cents a game, shoe rentals were 15 cents and a beer cost 25 cents.

Locally Westmont’s population was 4,900. The land for Suburbanite Bowl off Ogden Avenue was swampland and there were no stop lights at the now major intersections. NE corner of Cass and Ogden was a 1000 acre polo horse farm and golfing range. Washington Street, Suburbanite's access road, was a gravel road.

Nationally, Eisenhower was the President. The Dodgers left Brooklyn, N.Y. for Los Angeles. Ducktail hair, permanent press clothing and sack dresses were the fashion trends. TV featured The Honeymooners, American Bandstand, Lawerence Welk and As The World Turns, a daytime soap. West Side Story and My Fair Lady were both hits and Pat Boone and Jimmy Stewart were movie stars. Elvis rocked with "Jail House Rock" on Ed Sullivan Show and the VW Beetle rolled on the streets. The Russians launched the first of a series of "Sputnik" space crafts and the "Hula Hoop" was enjoyed by millions of Americans.
September 1959 - Eight lanes were added to bring the center to 24 lanes
  July 1965 - Suburbanite's restaurant was replaced with a Billiard Room Expansion and Professional Bowler's Pro Shop
  August 1972 - Eight lanes were added to bring the center to 32 lanes. Also included were modernizations from bench seating and score tables with stools to a fixed modular seating arrangement
  October 1983 - Brunswick Automatic Scoring was installed. Wood decking was replaced by new composite lane materials, eliminating future resurfacing maintenance
  June 1986 - Building exterior renovation was completed
  September 1997 - The introduction of Cosmic Bowl spotlighting rock and roll music and black lighting
  December 1997 - Snack Shop opened with a café style seating area
  June 2000 - Brunswick Frameworxs Scorers and Frameworxs System were implemented along with a new concourse, the latest in Bumper Bowling, Cosmic Laser Lighting and recognition for an Official PBA Practice Center
  September 2001 - Updated website design with interactive features
  May 2005 - Installation of Bose Music System with dedicated internet music downloads
  November 2005 - Suburbanite renovates and redesigns it's billiard and game room
  July 2006 - Suburbanite renovates the counter/service desk
  July 2007- Suburbanite renovates the concourse and bowlers area
  October 2007 - Suburbanite Bowl celebrates it's 50th year rolling along
  February 2008- Suburbanite develops innovative, one of a kind masking unit across the center
  July 2008- Suburbanite redesigns the Party Room
  September 2009 - Suburbanite redesigns the Cafe ervinfacade and sg room
  August 2010 - Suburbanite made some big changes and we called it "Stadium Bowling"
 
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