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Lucky Strike Entertainment Corporation (formerly known as Bowlmor AMF and Bowlero Corporation) is an American bowling center operator. It is the largest ten-pin bowling center operator in the world with over 325 centers, almost all of which are located in the United States. [ 1 ]
British Lucky Strike pack with government health warning, alongside a cigarette. The message "L.S./M.F.T." ("Lucky Strike means fine tobacco") was introduced on the package in 1944. [16] Lucky Strike was one of the brands included in the C-rations provided to American troops during World War II. Each C-ration of the time included nine ...
Lee Aubrey “Speed” Riggs (February 18, 1907 – February 1, 1987) [1] was an American tobacco auctioneer in Durham, North Carolina, United States.For more than three decades, Riggs appeared on the radio shows Your Lucky Strike Hit Parade and The Lucky Strike Program with Jack Benny for the American Tobacco Company as the voice of Lucky Strike cigarettes.
Steven Foster, the CEO of upscale bowling chain Lucky Strike Entertainment, was hands down the most easy-going Undercover Boss yet. The hit CBS (CBS) reality show is still as phony as the toupee ...
Lucky Strike is a bowling alley chain now owned and operated by the Bowlero Corportation. In 2023, the chain was sold by its parent company, Lucky Strike Entertainment, LLC , which continues to own and operates a chain of facilities that include billiard parlors, bars, lounges, restaurants and venues for art and music.
The song describes a woman through the use of advertising slogans. The slogan "So round, so firm, so fully packed, so free and easy on the draw" was used in the Lucky Strike brand cigarette advertising of the time, first heard in 1944 on the Jack Benny and Your Hit Parade radio programs.
Lucky Strike soon accounted for 38 percent of U.S. cigarette sales. During the Great Depression the company remained successful and Hill's salary exceeded $2,000,000. He made a substantial investment in advertising and sponsored Your Hit Parade and the Jack Benny Show. He also sponsored Frank Sinatra, Ethel Smith and Lawrence Tibbett. [30]
On December 6, 1948, Lucky Strike introduced yet another musical series, the daytime Your Lucky Strike, aka The Don Ameche Show, since the host was Don Ameche. This 30-minute show, airing weekdays at 3:30 pm on CBS, was a talent competition with little-known and unknown professional vocalists, backed by Al De Crescent on organ or Bill Wardell ...