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BowlingWolf

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Bowling Centers in the US
« on: July 15, 2008, 03:33:54 AM »
This probably has been posted by someone else before (although I haven't seen it), but I thought it interesting to see which US states have the most alleys at the moment:

Bowling centers by the State

Hopefully these numbers don't diminish much for a long time to come.
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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2008, 11:37:36 AM »
Out of the 39 listed for Maine, only 9 of those are 10 pin bowling alleys.  The other 30 are candlepin.
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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2008, 11:46:58 AM »
Not sure how acurate or old this list is but in MD they list bowling Asso. and a couple of proshops and at least 2 centers I saw that have been gone for a long time.
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BowlingWolf

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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2008, 11:53:07 AM »
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Out of the 39 listed for Maine, only 9 of those are 10 pin bowling alleys.  The other 30 are candlepin.
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When "lesser" known/popular variant forms of our game have more establishments, it can't bode well for our sport.

On a side note, I have (although many years ago) tried my luck at both candle-pin and duck-pin bowling, and being that those games are so different from 10 pin bowling, I wasn't very good at it I guess it comes down to learning the proper fundamentals, like every other game.
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BowlingWolf

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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 11:57:38 AM »
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Not sure how acurate or old this list is but in MD they list bowling Asso. and a couple of proshops and at least 2 centers I saw that have been gone for a long time.


Yeah, now that I check some of the lanes that I've known of, it does seem that this list is somewhat out of date.  In other words, there most likely are a lot less alleys around than what this list states.
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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 12:41:57 PM »
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Definitely not a recent list based on copyright dates and the fact they show Associations as WBAs and YABAs.  Sad to say several of the Cali centers have closed.
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Re: Bowling Centers in the US
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 12:51:22 PM »
That list is horribly outdated. I looked at the bowling alleys on Staten Island, in NY, and all but 1 of the places mentioned is still around.
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« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2008, 03:05:21 PM »
4 in Houston are gone and 1 is listed twice under different names.
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