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- [S41] Website - FindAGrave, viewed online; 23 September 2023; Gilbert J. Fischl, memorial ID 39807416;https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39801416/gilbert-j-fischl.
VERONA/EDGEWATER, FL — Gilbert (Gil) J. Fischl, age 70, of 2915 Pine Tree Drive in Edgewater, FL, died on Thursday, May 19, 1988, at home after a brief illness. He was born on March 10, 1918, in Verona, WI.
Mr. Fischl was a member of the Madison Bowling Hall of Fame and was the owner and operator of Fischl Lanes.
Survivors include his wife, Pat Fischl of Edgewater, Florida; son, Lee Fischl of Madison; David Joseph Fischl of Florida; granddaughters; Vicki Podgorski of Madison and Michelle Wilson of Black Earth; and granddaughters, Amber, Lindsay and Nicole.
Capital Times - May 21, 1988
Gilbert J “Gil” Fischl
BIRTH 10 Mar 1918
Verona, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
DEATH 20 May 1988 (aged 70)
Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida, USA
BURIAL Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery
Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida, USA
PLOT
Unit 2, So. End, E1/2, #7
MEMORIAL ID
39801416 ·
Fischel Gilbert Gil
His Life's in Alley
By WILLIAM R. WINEKE of The State Journal Staff
VERONA —.One thing that isn't new in Gilbert Fischl's new 12-lane bowling alley here is Gilbert Fischl.
He still sits hunched over his classy new bar, wearing dark glasses which must make it difficult for him to even see his brand new establishment.
AND THE fact that Gil Fischl hasn't changed says a lot about the role the bowling lanes have played in the life of Verona for the past 43 years.
"This has always been a place where factory, workers who make §80 a week and businessmen who make $500 a week; can sit together, have a few beers and bowl side by side," Fischl explained.
"My dad started the business back .in 1928 (in a four-lane establishment at 111 S. Main St. in Verona) and it has pretty much been our life ever since." Charles Fischl died a year ago.
WITH THE exception of Verona's churches, Fischl's, has been the one cultural spot in Verona that cuts across lines of class, sex and age.
Verona High School has always used Fischl's as part of its physical education program; Verona women in their 80s were members of the first women's leagues in the late 1920s.
"I don't think I could even tell you who set pins for us during all those years." Fischl said. "I'd guess most everyone who grew up in Verona would show up. at one time or another:" the new building has brightly polished lanes, a meeting room that will seat 200, automatic scorers, and a fenced-off little area where people have cocktails, in an atmosphere it really isn't too different from the, narrow, dark bar on S. Main.
OFF-DUTY bartenders slip, behind the bar and start pouring drinks if things get unexpectedly busy. Fischl will take a few minutes and bowl a game with a lonely customer (he's bowled three 300 games in his life).
It's a good place to be. I'm able to trust my help so I don't have to look over their shoulders. The town has been good to me — when I started people I didn't even know came up to help me organize leagues — I think its a freindly place."
AFTER 43 years of being Verona's lone four-alley bowling place, Fischl's now has "competition" in the new 12- alley Kamm Ann Inn on W. Verona Ave.
"But we've both got our alleys filled and I think it's a good, thing for Verona," Fischl suggested." People tend to bowl where they have places to bowl; I think the business is going 'to grow.
"It's the best place in the world to meet people — you join a league and in a few weeks you know a few dozen people."
Wisconsin State Journal - November 23, 1973
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Jindra and Chaloupka Families
1918 - 1988 (70 years)
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