which president had a bowling alley installed in the white house
Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. President Harry S. Truman officially opens the first White House bowling alley on this day in 1947. The two-lane bowling alley, situated in the West Wing, had been constructed earlier that year. According to Smithsonian Magazine, a group of Trumanâs fellow Missourians funded the construction of the bowling alley in honor of the president.