For the upper class, who Guillermo Thorndike describes in Los Apachurrantes Años 50, the Waikiki Club was a summer hotspot. It sat next to the Terrazas Club, which was created under the same cosmopolitan and modern concept yet oriented more towards the middle class. The Waikiki Club is located across from the Miraflores coastline, and you can almost reach out and touch its terrace and swimming pool from your car as it travels along the Costa Verde. (…) on Sunday, he would show up at the [Club] Waikiki (…) and he would take them to the stadium, wrestling matches, bull fights, horse races, bowling lanes, and boxing matches. [Los Cachorros: 155]
M. Carrillo / PP
The Brunswick Lanes, at the end of Diagonal Avenue and across from the San Nicolás Building (at six stories, it was the first Miraflores skyscraper), was for a decade after its opening another hot spot for young people from San Isidro and Miraflores; there they would gather to play this completely new game imported from the United States, the Mecca of sorts, for bowling alleys. You can still go to the Brunswick Lanes on Diagonal Avenue, although there are newer places around the district where you can bowl.
Lima grew with its back to the sea; the cliffs of Miraflores that MVLI describes did not show this aspect.
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