Five Minute Histories: Duckpin Bowling

[@elainewarczynski2593]

Wow I'm impressed !

[@themagus5906]

I remember Patterson Lanes from when I used to ride the bus as a kid thru Holland-Town! It's amazing that they have been operating for a century! Duckpins had a TV show in the 60s at that time, if I remember correctly, in the afternoon. They were the precursor to the small automated "bowling alleys" in arcades in the late 60s that used similarly sized balls.

[@jimfriedline8983]

My great Uncle owned the Southway in Baltimore. Both him and my Aunt were Duckpin World Champions in the 50's.

[@shellnet411]

The week of the moon landing that was not televised a brother and sister won There's also Greenway they used to be in Glen Burnie they moved, but they're still around. Greenway was the name of the road. It was the back parallel to BNA Boulevard. I just looked up where it is. It's in oaten now there's plenty of other duck pins in the area. My mom was an athlete. She was a bowler and a softball player

[@LeroyBright]

Pinland of Dundalk is back!

[@rockvilleraven]

So is White Oak Lanes, the only Duckpin Establishment in Montgomery County, MD.

[@Brittanynwisniewski]

My great grandfather built Patterson bowling alley

[@baltimoreheritage1006]

So cool!

[@nclarke372]

My Mom and Dad bowled on a league at the Duck pin lanes in Dundalk, somewhere around Holabird Ave. I Bowled Duck Pins on a Saturday mornings league at the lanes in Edgemere.

[@burns1210]

You're probably talking about Wise Ave. Holabird turns into Wise. It's a church now.

[@nclarke372]

@@burns1210 could be it was long long ago.

[@sxintas]

New Highland Bowling Lane on Fleet Street in Baltimore City. They had lanes on the 1st and 2nd Floor. I think it's a church now. I think there was a small center on Eaton Street also. Spillway?

[@jameskarukas7865]

Fair Lanes in Towson, a duckpin palace in the early 60's. They also had a birthday party room for kids.

[@rockvilleraven]

As a kid growing up in Chevy Chase, my Dad first took me to Rinaldi's Bethesda Bowl and learned how to bowl duckpins first, then a few years later moved up to tenpins. It was easier rolling those small balls when you were 6 years old.

[@paulppchristman5827]

The Rinaldi duckpin bowling center in Bethesda MD just off of Old Georgetown road was a popular birthday party venue for kids throughout the 60s and 70s.

[@rockvilleraven]

Bethesda 40 Alleys.

[@itsglen9646]

If I go bowling, it's duckpins for me.

[@wheelswingsfins438]

New England has Pin bowling, similar rules to Duckpin but smaller pins.

[@JimD410]

There was a duckpin bowling alley under my church SHJ I was a pin boy on the weekends I didn't realize how historic it was back then you had to hurry up set the pins then roll the balls down to the bowler. This was in 1980.

[@strictlyaesthetic9202]

You did not mention Bowling for Dollars tv show....... It was local.

[@billmanzke758]

I believe it was "Duck Pins for Dollars" hosted by Royal Parker on WBAL-TV.

[@paulppchristman5827]

WTTG 5 aired a duckpin bowling show in the mid/late 60s which I believe was competitive rather than a 'bowling for dollars' format. I was a little kid, so perhaps I'm mistaken on that last detail, though.

[@burns1210]

You mean Pin Busters. That was local

[@mikkibaker6907]

A friend of mine was a very active tenpin bowler in her hometown. I took her duckpin bowling. Initially, she thought it would be lots easier than tenpins -- was she ever wrong. When she hit the one-pin head-on she got the infamous 1--5 pins, leaving the other eight pins standing. She refused to continue after that! I grew up on dicks and the best I ever did in league bowling was a 134 average, getting at least one "flat game" (no strikes or spares) of 100 every year I bowled, which was 12-15 years. My high game was 178, which I never approached again.

[@robertcochran7103]

Your microphone is very well done, a brilliant improvisation. It must be very high quality because the closed captioning works well. (I'm deaf and depend on the captioning to know what you are saying.) Thank you for a great video.

[@reginadrayton8374]

I work at this amazing place, Patterson Lanes🤗 Oldest center in the country! Come see us... we are OPEN❤️ Babe Ruth also bowled here

[@ericdietz1795]

Despite that I still don't really feel local, it's amazing how many of these places I know--I just walked by there a few weeks back.

[@erikthorstensen5185]

And I believe the Babe Ruth picture is actually at a candlepin line up here in New England. Though call,cause the balls a similar. Our ball weighs in around 2.6 lbs.

[@nonyobussiness3440]

Candle pin

[@bobp8255]

The picture of Babe Ruth was taken at the Southway Bowling Center in Baltimore, MD.

[@weevie833]

@@bobp8255 The ball looks smaller than a duckpin ball (I have both sets) and Babe did live in Boston for a long time. Unless his hands are gigantic, it looks a lot like a candlepin ball to me.

[@erikthorstensen5185]

As a professional candlepin bowler. Small ball bowling is the Rodney Dangerfield of bowling. Candlepin is a New England tradition but that's another story.

[@paulppchristman5827]

I was introduced to candlepin bowling at a 12 lane alley in Weirs Beach NH in 1967 when I was six. Loved it !

[@levilam522]

Played in Brooklyn in the 70s pretty often

[@Fmr.PBAJoeJenkinsII]

Middlesex, Eastpoint and Greenway Bowl East on Moravia Road.

[@LeroyBright]

I remember e\Eastpoint and especially Middlesex as well, since I once bowled there as a youngster!

[@shellnet411]

I used to bowl at Greenway when it was on Greenway before it burned down back in the 90s

[@TonyGilbert1]

There where five baltimore Orioles teams

[@googoo-gjoob]

& one became the NY Highlanders b4 changing their name to the NY Skankees.

[@billjohnson3858]

3:42 Uh ... ducks, not geese.

[@burns1210]

I used to bowl duckpin at Rolling Road Fairlanes when I was a kid. That was a mixed house, half duck and half 10 pin. It's gone now. I have a 300 in 10 pin, high game in duckpin - 177. 🫤