The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the operator of the existing indoor golf-simulator joint near City Hall expand into a second location at 311 Summer St. in Fort Point and buy the liquor license from a South End seafood tapas place. Read more.
The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved extending hours at South Boston Candlepins, 543 East Broadway from 11 p.m. until midnight. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter alerts us that Boston Bowl on Morrissey Boulevard is once again open for kegling, now that Boston is in Phase 3 of Covid-19 re-opening, but says it's now only open until midnight and weeknights and 1 a.m. on weekend nights. Also, every other lane is shut and the billiards and arcade rooms remain closed.
The left wall in the bowling alley at Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling in Hyde Park has featured a large cartoon-like cutout of a guy bowling for several years now. Nancy Glazer Pearl, who does social media for Ron's, found the actual Mike, and his pal Bill, at the lanes the other day.
Maggie Stanley is at Lanes & Games in Cambridge for what is its last day before it closes in preparation for replacement by apartments (on stilts, since it's in a flood plain). Read more.
The Boston Business Journal reports that New Balance's Brighton Landing project has landed a pizza place that will also offer candlepin bowling.
If you're old enough to remember when you could play bocce at a Boston-area pizza place, you probably remember when Brighton had Sammy White's.
Wicked Local Cambridge reports Lanes & Games will be open for at least another year before it's torn down for residential buildings.
On Saturday, Boston Bowl in Dorchester rolls down memory lane, by returning its prices to what they were when it opened then - 50 cents a game (tenpin or candlepin, your choice), along with 50-cent pizza, burgers and drinks. So see if you can spare some time between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., unless, of course, you think they're out of your league.
1959 Globe article on the city's first tenpin lanes (with the "AMF Pinspotter Fully Automatic Unit").
Via Thrillist.
Spare some time to Strike Out Hunger with Project Bread! Today, local families are struggling now more than ever to put food on the table. Make a difference while having a good time at Project Bread’s bowl-a-thon event on Monday, November 9, from 6–10 P.M. at Lucky Strike Lanes/Jillian’s in Boston. The money raised will help ensure that your neighbors in Massachusetts have enough to eat in the tough winter months ahead. For more information or to start a team visit www.projectbread.org/bowlathon.
Whalehead King pays a visit to the always open Boston Bowl in Dorchester:
... The most popular part of Boston Bowl during our visit, besides the outdoor smoking area conveniently located at the entrance, was the extensive and crowded pool room. Apparently, people like to engage in a round of billiards late in the wee hours of the morning. The clientele's demographics skewed young, but everyone was congenial and seemed sober. This isn't a place to work off the effects of a bender. ...
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