Remembering a time when duckpin bowling ruled the roost in D.C.
I love all things D.C. I recently bought a nostalgic T-shirt with a bowling alley design that mentions the New Recreation Alleys at 918 G St. NW. What can Answer Man tell me about that?The 1944 phone book for the District of Columbia listed more than 30 bowling alleys in Washington and its close-in suburbs. The lanes included such magical-sounding places as the Hi-Skor Bowling Alleys at 719 13th St. NW, King Pin Bowling Alleys at 1309 Rhode Island Ave.
Greenway Bowl opened on April 1, 1942. Greenway was a new neighborhood of low-priced apartments aimed at the war workers who were swelling the city’s population. Its developer? Morris Cafritz. The New Recreation Alleys closed in 1945 when the space was leased to the Red Cross. Its closure prompted an outpouring of nostalgia among those who trod the “mapleways,” as wags dubbed shiny, wooden bowling lanes.
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