Five Minute Histories: Duckpin Bowling 

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

Wow I'm impressed !

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

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.

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

My great grandfather built Patterson bowling alley

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

Pinland of Dundalk is back!

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.

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.

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.

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

Played in Brooklyn in the 70s pretty often

Middlesex, Eastpoint and Greenway Bowl East on Moravia Road.

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.

There where five baltimore Orioles teams

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

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. 🫤