Bowling Alley activities in North America
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Bowlmor Lanes
Among retro-crazed New Yorkers, a night of bowling qualifies as quite a hoot. Maybe it’s the shoes, or all the pitchers of beer. Open since 1938, Bowlmor has Manhattan’s go-to-lanes for stars, bar mitzvah parties and beer-slugging NYU students. After 9pm Monday, it goes DJ-blasting glow-in-the-dark, with unlimited bowling for $24 including shoe rental (age 21 and up).
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Lucky Strike Lanes
Finally, a place for cool cats who are legally old enough to drink to have a little retro bowling fun. With posters of sexy pinup babes, a finger-lickin’ menu of bar food and buckets of beer, and glam lanes with projection-screen TVs, Lucky Strike lanes is worth paying twice the price. Round up your posse and wait for a lane at the backlit bar. It’s busiest during big-time sports events like Monday Night Football.
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Milky Way
Though this subterranean bar acts more as a retro lounge and nightclub, it was originally a bowling alley back in the 1960s and six of the old lanes have been retained for your candlepin pleasure. The price is good for as many as six people to bowl, including shoe rental. And if you’ve got a buck, you know you want to play Super Chexx Hockey, the hottest game of 1983, which pits the USA against the USSR.
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Lucky Strike Lanes
Run by a national chain, this high-tech bowling alley is embedded inside Jillian’s, a large entertainment complex containing a dance club, arcade and pool hall. As the place fills with the Landsdowne St crowd, waiting for a lane can sometimes take a while. After 8pm on weekends the alley is exclusive to patrons over 21 years. Note the dress code: no sportswear.
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Flatbread Co & Sacco’s Bowl Haven
Founded in 1939, Sacco's Bowl Haven is a Somerville institution - old-time candlepin bowling lanes that managed to survive into the 21st century. The place has been overtaken and updated by Flatbread Co, who brightened the space and added clay ovens, but preserved most of the lanes and the good-time atmosphere. Now you can enjoy delicious organic pizzas and cold beers with your candlepins.
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Melody Lanes
Among retro-crazed New Yorkers, a night of bowling qualifies as quite a hoot. Maybe it’s the shoes, or all the pitchers of beer. If a lane and a pitcher of beer’s all you need, Melody suits just fine. Frequent specials (like $20 per person ‘all-you-can-bowl’ nights) sweeten the deal.
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Gutter
It’s hip, cheap and old school, with eight quickly filled vintage lanes.
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Kings
For an over-the-top tenpin experience, roll a few at Kings, where high-tech lanes are lined with neon lights and surrounded by trippy graphics. Behind deck is an enormous cocktail lounge done up in a style reminiscent of The Jetsons. If bowling is not your game, there is also billiards, shuffleboard and skeeball.
Contrary to that, this is not the Jersey Shore: mind the dress code. Also, you must be 21 or older after 6pm.
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300 New York
Among retro-crazed New Yorkers, a night of bowling qualifies as quite a hoot. Maybe it’s the shoes, or all the pitchers of beer. The 300 goes for martinis and disco nights Thursday through Sunday. A new video arcade allows further youthful regression.
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Leisure Time Bowling Center
Among retro-crazed New Yorkers, a night of bowling qualifies as quite a hoot. Maybe it’s the shoes, or all the pitchers of beer. Amid Port Authority’s bus frenzy are 30 lanes for $50 to $75 per hour, depending on the time of day.
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Lucky Strike
One of the world’s few bowling alleys with a dress code, Lucky Strike has pricey drinks, plush lounge fittings and a fashion-conscious crowd – which makes the whole experience more akin to a nightclub than a bowling alley. Reservations are recommended.
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Suncoast
Family-friendly casino bowling alleys with pool tables include Suncoast with cosmic bowling (think crazy lights, fog and disco balls) late at night on weekends.
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Red Rock Lanes
Deluxe PBA-tour bowling alley, with 72 lanes, plasma-screen TVs, pool and shuffleboard tables, dartboards, a video-game arcade and VIP suites with bottle service.
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Gold Coast
A family-friendly casino bowling alley with pool tables. It rock outs with cosmic bowling (think crazy lights, fog and disco balls) late at night on weekends.
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Strike Miami
Strike Miami in the Dolphin Mall is a good example of what happens when Miami’s talent for glitz and glamour meets some humble ten-pins.
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Strike Zone
Nevada’s second-largest bowling center has Brunswick Pro Anvil lanes, but it’s all the way across town.
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Lucky Strike
Just off Lincoln Rd, this is Miami Beach's answer to high-end bowling, full of house and hip-hop music, electric-bright cocktails and beautiful club kids.
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Bowlmor Lanes
In the Dolphin Mall, this is a good example of what happens when Miami's talent for glitz and glamour (they post pics of Lindsay Lohan bowling here on the website) meets some humble 10-pins.
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