Best place to travel back in time
Lanes & Games, near the Alewife T station, is a rarity among bowling alleys. It boasts no Day-Glo balls, no
"mystic bowling" nights, no Radiohead blaring over the speakers. The people who go there are serious about
what they do - they are in leagues - and they will brook no faddish distractions. Whether you favor tenpin
or candlepin, you can rest assured that the bowling comes first. All the same, Lanes & Games is a beautiful
space, a paragon of the bowling aesthetic. The alley opened in 1949, and its design - lots of orange
ellipses - is 100 percent genuine, with none of that retro-ironical rubbish. The place has given one nod
to modernity, in the form of automated scoring screens with computer-generated graphics, yet even these
seem to date back to the Space Invaders era. And then there's the bar, in which you can get drinks for
prices that hark back to well before the dawn of the millennium.
Lanes & Games, 195 Concord Turnpike, Route 2 East, Cambridge, (617) 876-5533.
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