"One of the biggest centers (the 88-lane Detroit Recreation Center on Lafayette that closed in 1960) had four floors of 22 lanes each, but African-Americans were allowed on only one of its floors." "You couldn't be a sanctioned bowler in the American Bowling Congress unless you were Caucasian until 1951," Martin said. Joe Louis owned Paradise Lanes in Detroit.īut the same color barriers existed in bowling that did elsewhere. The sport has been popular among African-Americans as well. Baseball traces its roots to the 19th century. Then again, the ancient Egyptians did, too. Not to mention being able to recognize, even with your eyes closed, the sound of a strike or an ugly split.ĭetroiters love bowling. Unlike golf, which thrives on silence, bowling thrives on noise - the ball rolling down the lane, pins scattering.
On any given afternoon, with a multitude of leagues in the house, there is still the same cacophony you hear upon entering a busy center, such as Rose Bowl Lanes, also on Groesbeck in Roseville. That's not to say bowling is dead - or even is dying. Maple Lanes on East Warren is another.įountainview Lanes on Groesbeck in Clinton Township is closed, but still stands, its roadside sign eerily only saying "Lanes" after "Fountainview" was removed. Chandler Lanes, visible from I-94 near Chandler Park in Detroit, is one. West Bloomfield Lanes on Orchard Lake, for instance, sold for $6.5 million in 1994 and is now a Barnes & Noble bookstore. If the jobs vanished, the centers did, too - often being sold because the land on which they were situated was more valuable than the building itself. Where the jobs went, so did the bowling centers. "We have 50,000 sanctioned bowlers," said Mark Martin, the Detroit area's manager of the United States Bowling Congress. Chances are you could walk to both.Įven though Detroit still has more sanctioned bowlers than any other city in the nation, this is not the golden age of the sport. They were like neighborhood theaters, though, the old centers were. Now there are fewer than 80 - and only three certified centers within the city of Detroit, one of which is the Detroit Athletic Club. In 1962, there were 245 bowling centers in Metropolitan Detroit.
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