Exploring An Abandoned Bowling Alley *With: Among The Unknown* 

That’s just sad. I used to spend a lot of time there when I was a kid and my mom and grandma were in a league there. It was always a dump, but it had memories!

Wallie, this place was in the movie “Kingpin”. It was one of the earlier scenes, where they hustled the “priest” and they stuck Roy’s hand in the ball return.

Was definitely fun exploring with you guys! Glad you liked the place, hope to explore again sometime! PS: I hate how bored I looked in the intro/outro, that was completely unintentional! These darn masks!

It was originally built to house Beaver Valley Brewing Co., and Beaver Valley Bowl has occupied the space since 1950. Hollywood movies “Kingpin” and “Wonder Boys” also have been filmed there. Beaver Valley Brewing Co opened in 1904 and closed in 1910. It produced about 150,000 barrels a year.

I suspect that some of those old TVs are actually monitors for the scoring system

That was too funny when Kayla threw the ball down the lane; it sounded like looney toons with the glass breaking sound etc. lol

You said not much was interesting in the bathroom but actually at 30:16 in the restroom that is a rare female urinal called the Sanistand, manufactured by American Standard in the 1960s through the early 70s. They were installed here and there but never caught on and most were removed in favor of regular toilets in women's restrooms. A few, such as that one, survive.

So much vintage stuff in the bowling alley and some older lanes on another floor holy crap. That CD machine on the top floor wow, definitely reminds me of when i grew up going bowling with family and friends thanks for taking us along man i appreciate it.

Those are wood lanes in the older alley you can tell by the look

Omg dude you know I am a filming locations fuhREAK! I am gonna watch this 100x and analyze the hell out of it for Kingpin props lol!!!!

It looks like this bowling alley has been here for years, and years and years! It's a cool find, though! ❤😘👍 This brings back memories when I used to go to my local bowling alley! I was on a bowling league at the time, which was a few years ago! I have always loved to bowl! 😀 I am enjoying your video right now! Thank you so much!

I always had a fascination with abandoned places. I always wanted to do what Wallie did. Explore these fascinating places of a bygone era. Wow. My mom died in 2016 and this always reminded me of us going Bowling. Great video, Wallie!

What a shame. This place is huge! it looked like one big gigantic maze, one flight of stairs after another and one room after another. Unfortunately there's no saving this place. These old buildings are pretty much a lost cause once the roof starts to leak without getting repaired.

Beaver Valley Bowl, Rochester pool hall & The Cellar Dwellers Improv

I did not realize the Bowling Alley had shut down. I remember the night fire down there happened. Everyone in a 5 mile radius was ordered to shelter in. There was a chemical cloud in the area for awhile and it took over a day to put out the fire. I used to hang out up at the Cue & Cushion pool hall above the Bowling Alley and was friends with the people that ran it.

I don't under stand why people damage abounded Buildings

Many memories in this place from shooting pool with jodie working to bowling there and the many after hours poker games in the bar area til late with everyone. Great times sad to see the building couldn’t be somehow saved it has been too far gone. Aside from kingpin the wonder boys also used the building in the film

The fact this place has only been closed for 2 years is the craziest part

This was an awesome video!😀 I can how this was a hopping place back in the day! I always enjoy your videos!

This looks like it was a really cool place to explore.

Great video thanks for sharing. Looks like you guys had some fun. Ha e a great weekend.

Thanks for sharing this one Wallie It was awesome to see a abandoned Bowling alley thanks again buddy.

such an awesome video and location! i work at two bowling alleys in scranton, pennsylvania so this was really interesting to see an abandoned one!

That's wild how much it deteriorated in just a couple years. Great footage as usual, and y'all had a lot of fun! Awesome video!

YO! I CANNOT WAIT TO COLLABORATE WITH YOU THIS COLLAB IS AWESOME!!!

I saw atu's video on this place and couldn't wait to see your take on this place. What an awesome location

Great vid Wallie. Hate to see places like that (old bowling alleys, old roller skating rinks, public pools, etc.) go out of business and just fall apart. The roof and other parts of this place must have been really bad to begin with for it to go that bad that quick. Sad to see.

1:38 That was sad for me to see, love my S10's, I currently have a 02 S10 ZQ8 and I love it. Great video too. That place seems like it would be quite the maze.

I love everything what you posted! You and Kayla rock!!!

This bowling alley is amazing. I have been to all of these floors when it was open. This place was a dump when it was open. Now it’s 1000 times worse. Brings back memories in college at the pool hall

Excited for this!!!

Dude, that Motiv QZ2. Got one, such a killer ball for league shots. Too bad you can't take them and get them cleaned up and refinished. A sad end, but I'm sure the owners had some great games with them. Loved the video, the commentary and the usual muck around. Such a cool location. Cheers! 😁

Great video Wallie and team! One of your top ten for sure, awesome!👍

This was an interesting video about the abandoned bowling alley but man that place was trashed I've never seen such destruction

Spent most nights after highschool in that pool hall . 2014-2018 . Wasnt that bad wow

I definitely enjoyed watching this video! I wish that I could've been with you during the exploration! Honestly, Wallie, I would like to go on an exploration with you someday. Have a KMartlicious Day!

This place looks crazy! We should meet up sometime. Love your content!

I think that this was my most fascinating favorite video that you’ve done and that #orb was so wild what an interesting place I would’ve loved to explore that with you guys😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀❤️

That place looked awesome would be cool to see it when it was up and running

that place is probably haunted, probably some of the other places u have been to, Great video mann :) Vintage place

Kingpin!!! Great movie!!!

Awesome video bro. We need to go cosmic bowling

Awesome place!

I was scared this might be Arsenol Lanes in Pittsburgh for a second, the coolest bowling alley ever. I actually looked them up mid-video to make sure it wasn't, it would have broken my hart if it was (and sad to see a bowling alley in this condition). There's a 50s era bowling alley by where I live in upstate NY that closed about a month ago because of a fire, they're hoping to rebuild. I got a tour from the manager when he saw me filming the place and he was cool with it. Hopefully I can film the inside after some of the chemicals are cleaned out (I put my mask on as soon as I got there when I smelled the chemicals from outside, probably a good thing I had it).

Awesome video

It’s a bowling ramp. I use one for special Olympics bowling.

Fun video! Amazing that this fell apart so quickly... kind of the opposite of that motel a couple of weeks ago. And what was Kayla's Best Buy story...?

This abandoned bowling alley would be an awesome place for Us walking Dead shoot

What a cool place

"Hey niko! Let's go bowling" -Roman gta IV

Wallie. Have you ever been to one of the few Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips? We had one in Hagerstown Md yesrs ago. Great food.

This is a great video it was really cool

The roleplays at 26:25 on were great

See wallie u need to go exploring too once in a wile..it's fun

I've recorded a banded bowling alley. It was the capital one that got hit by the tornado in Jefferson City

There was a bowling alley in chalmette named garden bowl it had a bar and a nursery in it

That place was huge

All I can say is, WOW! Your coverage of this place is a gem of an urban exploration like none other. Crazy thing is I was just home 2 months ago and didn't even know it had closed! I spent some time a this bowling alley in my youth, and I can tell you, t he whole establishment was literally stuck in 1950. The decor, the fixtures- you harkened back to a bygone era when you stepped into this bowling alley. You just know you're in a relic of the past when you spot a sani-stand in a women's restroom 😮. I can't honestly say I was fond of this place when my dad took me bowling here as a kid, however. The person who commented that it was a rat hole even when open and operating is exactly right. It was a dilapidated, decrepit and filthy place. I recall wondering how it continued to pass health inspection for so many years! I hate to speak negatively of a somewhere that's home to many a pastime of prior generations, but this place was pretty gross 🤢 and those steep stairs leading up to the lanes were a lawsuit waiting to happen! Take a spill on those steps and it'll be a bad day :(( Either way, I hope I get a chance to see it in person before the wrecking ball finds it!

Best video ever created

Our bowling alley has been closed since the pandemic. The place is older than I am and I'm sixty.

It would be interesting to see what it looked like when it originally closed.

Shame to see this place this way, I bowled many many games there. Their pro shop was the best in the area, I wonder if the case of drill spec cards still remains. They used to keep all the specs of a customers drilled ball on note cards in a dewi-decimal system type of cabinet, would love to get in there and see if mine and my dad's drill cards are still in there.

This is cool

His bowling alley had everything something for everyone

We use to have a fan exactly like that one lol

You really should get a regular good respirator when in moldy places, that “dust mask” you use serves no purpose with mold and other things, it doesn’t stop anything but big dust particles, especially when not used right with only one band around head.

I'm surprised no one took all that soda with all the vandalism going on in there. The place looked as if it was like that for a decade with all that deterioration. Unless the roof got hit by a major storm accelerating that abandoned moldy look.

Reminds me of the beaver valley bowling alley from Kingpin

So sad looking. I bet that was a great hangout at one time. And I can remember, my classrooms had the saaaaaame lights! 😟😟😟😟

Normally you can’t even step across the line going to the alley, that’s considered a foul in boxing, and gives you zero points. But wow though.

It hurts to see an abandoned bowling center (I bowl and work in a center in CO)... About 5:20 or a little after I spotted a black Johnny Petraglia LT-48 ball in a box; the original version was out in about 1982 or 1983 which I have one myself, then it came out again in the 2000’s (I think). About the trophies-it’s nothing that unusual to see a lot of old trophies, as many times they are recycled for junior leagues (under age 21) or even other leagues. It’s cheaper to recycle them-all that may need to be changed is the figurine or more likely the plate that shows the achievement (First Place, High Averages, etc.).

Such a shame to see the place so badly decayed and trashed

Sad to see this

I think what you mean is bumper bowling for the kids.

Oh my Wally you got company it's a ghost that's how I heard ghost appear on cameras

we were beaver valley bowling alley i think 6/28/19 cuz it was hot night, my friend and i live in rochester, pa__we were ghosthunting there behind the building that caught on fire about 2- 3 weeks before fire on a friday night and got a photo of a ghost back there, but then we reviewed the photos in the car before we left, they were mysteriously erased

Tap me of those billiard tables look to be in pretty good shape. Probably just need some new cloth & cleaned up a bit. I’d love to have one of those. They probably weigh about 1000 lbs each.

What you doing advertising AMF in a brunswick house sir? Joking. I do like that shirt. I was an AMF mechanic for many years.

"Bigd-**BOING**"

This bowling alley was in the movie king pin with woody

There's been a couple of videos posted in the last few months of beaver Valley bowl and it has been destroyed and deteriorated so rapidly compared to this video

Saabkyle04 would've taken that S10

amazing video, what a waste of stuff

I would take the Christmas tree

Everything in the universe is either in a state of decay or renewal. Including us.

i played pool there a couple of times

2:21 did your stomach really rumble lol

Where is this place this just breaks my heart

we live in rochester, pa and go ghosthunting there all the time, we went ghosthunting inside one time years ago, anyway it is very haunted and we were there about 2ish weeks before the fire and go a ghost photo, it is sad, because of the contamination, they were trying to sell the building to build condos, before the fire happened, these are historical buildings and there was a security guard and the EPA cleaning the site for at least 6 months, we talked to the security guard once night when 3 of us went ghosthunting, lots of shadow people at that site

What City and State do you know by any chance where this abandoned bowling alley is located?

Part of the roof had been missing for years. The owners father is the one responsible for the chemical fire. Maintain your property or nature will take it back.

WOO! 11,000 VIEWS. Jeez!!

I think that this place likely has not run for a long time by the level of damage.

Kingpin was shot there ... But it means so much more than just a movie set place...Is there any way it can be saved because of that. Is there anyone that would fork out that kind of money . I have even thought of asking a few youtubers . To ask if they have any youtuber friends Get enough of them together get the attention of someone like mr beast . This building really needs to be saved I know it needs a lot of work.. But I also know what it was like in its prime.. It wasn't just a bowling alley it was a comedy club. It was a pool hall. It was a skating rink. Is and a bowling alley all at the same time. But it was also like a second home for folks that had no where else to go, Where even if you didn't have a penny to your name As long as you didn't cause trouble They would let you stay chat make friends Sometimes the original owner would even treat you to a bowling game. This Building needs to be saved not only for the history, But also for so many memories. I already tried going through famous people for the last couple years. Been ignored by each and everyone. That ever had anything to do with any movies there. Kingpin was not the only movie shot there. Can anyone help me come up with a game plan like the above suggestion? I know it's Not going to be cheap to fix. That's why I suggested such a huge name like mr beast. Can anyone Do anything please. Literally begging not for myself, but for many more, And even future generations. Save the rochester pabowling alley...

So what the name of this bowling alley so I can look up its history. I use to be a pin sitter in the 70's hate to see how poeple let things go like this

i live here in BC this is like 5 minutes from my house lol

So sad to see my mom love to bowl

next time ur in TX Visit Sunset Lanes

you have to get shots to go in that place.

waille disovers good and atually imprissive graifite from people who just want the art they made seen.