Holiday Bowl, Bowling alley in Crenshaw District, Los Angeles, US.

Holiday Bowl was a bowling center on Crenshaw Boulevard in the Crenshaw District of Los Angeles, built in the Googie style with large windows and sculpted rooflines. Beyond the bowling lanes, the building held a pool hall, a bar, and a coffee shop that stayed open around the clock.

Five Japanese American entrepreneurs opened the Holiday Bowl in 1958, selling shares across the community to finance construction after many had returned from World War II internment. The bowling alley, pool hall, bar and coffee shop closed in 2000 and was slated for demolition, but supporters won it Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument status, listed as number 688. The front area was refurbished in October 2004 and replaced by an outdoor shopping center anchored by Walgreens, which opened in early 2006.

The bowling center brought together African American, Japanese American, and Latino residents who lived nearby and shared the same lanes, bar, and coffee shop counter. The food menu alone told the story of the neighborhood: grits, udon noodles, hamburgers, and spicy sausages all served under the same roof.

The building was not demolished: after the alley closed in 2000, supporters won it Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument status, listed as number 688. The former front area was refurbished in October 2004 and became an outdoor shopping center anchored by Walgreens, which opened in early 2006. The former coffee shop became a Starbucks, and neon signs from a nearby former Honda/Majestic Pontiac dealership were fitted with LED lighting.

The building was designed by Helen Liu Fong of the Armet & Davis firm, which shaped 1950s Googie coffee-shop architecture. Photographer Jack Laxer shot the Bowl in stereo for 3-D viewing. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots the structure was undamaged, and people bowled there that night.