In 1999, I was approached by a local bowling alley to file a bill allowing alcohol in bowling alleys in Massachusetts. I wasn't aware that bowling alleys couldn't serve alcohol. I had seen the movies Kingpin and the Big Lebowski, but in Massachusetts, after an accident by a driver coming from a Bowling Alley in the Jamaica Plain section in Boston, the Legislature passed a bill prohibiting alcohol from bowling alleys in the state.
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