

The opening featured the five finalists as usual. His best times were when he won world championships, four all-star titles, and in 1962 when he won several times and made eighteen top five finals. Don was named by many the greatest bowler of all time. Rafi Charion, the proprietor of Galaxy lanes, was actually there along with the partners of Don Carter chain lanes John Powell, Jr., Jerry Isan, Burt Rose, and Don Carter, the legend himself. This bowling center had the AMF Mod V masking units and red gutters, exactly like the Galaxy bowling lanes in Venice, Florida. In 1990, the event moved to the Don Carter All Star Lanes in Kenner, Louisiana located on 3640 Williams Blvd. Roger Bowker won in 1988 defeating local professional Purvis Granger, and in 1989, Brian Voss was the hot dog on the tour winning for his second straight title for Walter Ray Williams, Jr. Harvey, Louisiana’s bowling center of 64 lanes was the modern Brunswick 2000 motif with Brunswick automatic scoring. The previous two events were in Harvey, Louisiana. Two weeks earlier, Super Bowl XXIV was at the famous Mercedes-Benz Superdome and the San Francisco 49ers slaughtered the Denver Broncos, 55-10. Prior to that, they waited to come back for ten years. In 1990, the PBA visited the New Orleans area for the third straight year.
