[1] The original investors included Walt Disney, his brother Roy, Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, George Burns, Charles Laughton, Burl Ives, Art Linkletter, John Payne, Spike Jones and Jim and Marian Jordan (Fibber McGee and Molly).

[2] In 1979, a group of private investors led by Bob Leavitt and Neil Griffin purchased Celebrity's for $1.9 million.

Left-hander John Mazza would go into the TV Finals with a 299-pin lead over the second-place qualifier Parker Bohn III.

In the championship match, Bohn III was simply unable to find a consistent line to the pocket to score.

As a result, he was defeated easily by the number-one seed Mazza, who threw 10 out of 12 possible strikes in a lopsided 269-190 victory to win the first-place prize of $18,000.

(Pre-Home Depot the building housed a Builders Square location, which had an encased bowling pin from the CSC and a plaque underneath it by the far left exit door.

[citation needed] These mementos no longer exist at the Home Depot; the fate of the pin and the plaque are unknown.)