This started a cascade of memories. My mother used to take me to the bowling alley where she bowled in a women's league. Sometimes after her game she'd play duckpins with me. When I mention it to most people, they seem never to have heard of this flavor of bowling.
Since Deford mentions that he grew up playing it in Baltimore, and I most likely played it in Maryland as well, growing up in Washington, D.C. as I did, I wondered if it was more of a regional thing. According to this site, "Duckpins is mostly bowled on the east coast, but due to a lack of media coverage, it's less seen than tenpins."
So there you go. Once more the Internet comes to my rescue to let me know I'm not insane "qbullet.smiley".
I live in a state that has no Duckpin lanes, I miss the game, I live in Enterprise Alabama, bur I'm from Maryland and used to Bowl At Marlow Bowling Alley it used to be a Duckpin center then went tenpen was wondering if there was a way to get a DP alley down here and the cost to maintain a center thanks
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear of another soul from the D.C. area who remembers the game. I don't think I've played it since i was a child, around 40 years ago!
If you ever start up a duckpin alley in Alabama, I'd be interested to hear about it. Won't do me much good in Oregon, but it'd be fun to know someone was spreading a game from my childhood. Take care!