3305194 Pinboys in a Subway bowling alley, 65 South Street, Brooklyn. New York. 1910 (photo) by Hine, Lewis Wickes (1874-1940); Private Collection; (add.info.: In bowling, a pinsetter, or pinspotter, was originally a person who manually reset bowling pins to their correct position, cleared fallen pins, and returned bowling balls to players. Probably due to the nature of the work (low-paid, often part-time, manual labor that most frequently took place evenings), many pinsetters were teenage boys, and thus pinboy is another name used to describe the job. In 1936 Gottfried Schmidt invented the mechanical pinsetter while with the AMF firm, which largely did away with pinsetting as a manual profession;); Prismatic Pictures .