Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and Bowling, 1231 Hyde Park Ave. in Hyde Park, is seeking a beer and wine license. Read more.
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By adamg - 1/5/23 - 1:36 pm
The Boston Licensing Board this morning approved extending hours at South Boston Candlepins, 543 East Broadway from 11 p.m. until midnight. Read more.
By adamg - 1/4/23 - 11:39 am
The Boston Licensing Board could decide tomorrow whether to let South Boston Candlepins, 543 East Broadway, extend its closing time for both bowling and drinking from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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By adamg - 3/10/21 - 1:08 pm
Ron, of the eponymous ice-cream place on Hyde Park Avenue with the attached candlepin alley, answers the question of which came first.
By adamg - 2/14/17 - 6:05 pm
The Boston Business Journal reports that New Balance's Brighton Landing project has landed a pizza place that will also offer candlepin bowling.
If you're old enough to remember when you could play bocce at a Boston-area pizza place, you probably remember when Brighton had Sammy White's.
By adamg - 12/30/14 - 12:57 pm
The Chelsea Record reports on a local man's induction into the International Candlepin Bowling Association's Hall of Fame.
By adamg - 6/25/12 - 8:53 am
Raise your hand if you even know where Sammy White's was, let alone what made it infamous. Plus, check out the mop on Brian Leary's head - and the ads ("Come play your fav-o-rites, Wonderland!").
By adamg - 7/10/07 - 4:54 pm
Rhea Becker doesn't like little balls:
... It's a dumb form of bowling that we have here in Boston; it's impossible to get a strike. ...
By adamg - 2/4/07 - 11:59 am
Peter Chianca reports:
I recently discovered the only thing more humiliating than throwing your back out while candlepin bowling; namely, throwing your back out while taking off your candlepin bowling shoes. ...
By adamg - 5/14/05 - 9:15 pm
It's not every day you see somebody at Big League Bowling in West Roxbury in a suit, tie and bowler hat. Come to think of it, it's not any day you see somebody dressed up like that at Big League Bowling.
Gibson Forsyth of West Roxbury said he had planned to wear the outfit to his prom the night before. But his date got sick and he wound up not going. He still wanted to dress up, so he went bowling with some friends - he was all spiffed up; they were in jeans and t-shirts.
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