Some vintage wooden bowling pins incorporated distinctive, human-like designs, such as clowns, sailors, firefighters and others. It is unclear whether these pins were used for professional lawn or ski ...

Toy pins were, of course, not approved by the ABC for official use. But that didn’t mean bowlers and their families couldn’t set them up in the house or on the lawn for some practice and some fun. ...

Roll ’em! Thanks to the Brinkman Engineering Co. of Dayton, Ohio, you didn’t have to leave the house in order to enjoy a good round of bowling. The Bowling Alley #500 features a mechanized bowler that ...

Up for a game but don’t feel like going out? This mechanical bowler will roll the ball for you, courtesy of Baldwin Mfg. Co. of Brooklyn. The mid-twentieth-century King-Pin tabletop game features part ...

Arcades weren’t just for video games in the 1980s — kids could go bowling, too. Super-Bowl allowed players to enjoy realistic bowling away from the lanes, featuring a ball return, computerized scoring ...

If wear and tear are telltale signs of how much children love and play with their favorite toys, these bowling pins were much-loved. Aside from the pedestrian dings and dents, the crack in the rightmo ...

Outside of traditional alleys, bowlers had many options for at-home games. “Bagatelles” — tabletop games where players rolled balls around a board – became popular in Europe in the early 1800s and soo ...