And don't forget duckpin bowling, which also started as a New England phenom. The ball is a bit bigger than a candlepin ball, and the pins are shorter and squatter. Not the point of the review, of course, but worth a mention for those who follow bowling trivia...
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In Baltimore in the 50s and 60s they called it duckpin bowling. Hugely popular.
I wrote a book with a bowling scene. It's a little love story, a late in life romance and it's title is Take Me Home. The bowling alley is in Bozeman, Montana. The setting for me was irresistible.
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We had a candlepin bowling alley in my Connecticut town back in the 1950s. We just called it bowling and the pin boys who set ‘em up again were as much a target as the pins. The ball without finger holes was a little bigger than a softball and felt good, like a huge, heavy marble, in your hand. When I graduated to bowling bowling with those two ton giant balls with finger holes, it just didn’t make sense.
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@Elliot Silberberg When I tried "bowling" bowling it was too weird. In the 60s near Boston candlepin was cool ! I miss also the trampoline parks (often allied with miniature golf) which liability insurance killed.
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I'll put this on my list- I enjoyed her other work.
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