Adriene Biondo and Chris Nichols co-authored “Bowlarama: The Architecture of Mid-Century Bowling,” a new look at the 1950s-’60s heyday ... the end of lanes) as suburbs blossomed.

Suburban expansion continued with the extension of tramlines, and peaked in the 1950s with widespread car ownership and post-World War II families seeking more space. From a “bourgeois utopia ...