Obama White House Bowling Alley

During obama s campaign he said he planned to replace the bowling alley in the white house proper installed by nixon in 1969 with an indoor basketball court.

Obama white house bowling alley. 1 2011 as a presidential candidate in 2008 barack obama vowed to tear out the white house bowling alley and install a basketball court if elected. The white house bowling alley is a one lane bowling alley in the basement of the white house under the north portico. Ninety minutes after time magazine reported on a general. Truman didn t care for bowling himself but allowed staff to start a league.

Toward the end of his approximately 40 minute taping on the the tonight show with jay leno obama talked about how he d gotten better at bowling and had been practicing in the white house. It didn t take long for the obama administration to kill a white house bowling alley project that might have drawn political criticism. Residence and workplace of the president of the united states is located under the north portico and includes the white house carpenters shop engineers shop flower shop 1 and dentist office 2 among other areas. Truman rolls one down the alley at the formal opening of the white house bowling alley on april 19 1947 in washington.

Unlike truman s alley nixon s single lane facility was presumably intended for presidential use only and obama clearly not such a fan of bowling would have no use for it. We travel to washington dc and visit the white house gmm 534. Bowling lanes were first built in the ground floor of the west wing as a birthday gift for president truman in 1947 in the location of the present day situation room. The white house is renovating its bowling alley president harry s.

White house bowling alley renovation abruptly scrapped president harry s. Truman rolls one down the alley at the formal opening of the white house bowling alley on april 19 1947 in washington. The lanes feature classic bowling alley decor a computerized score keeping system and images of the white house in case you forgot where you were. Now nearly four years later the.