Skee-Ball is to the Shore as what baseball is to Cooperstown — a game that connects generations. “Skee-Ball has been part of the Jersey Shore forever and ever since 1907,” said Ed Pohlman, owner of ...
What it takes to become the national Skee-Ball champion. — -- After years of near-misses in tournaments and hours of practicing on the Skee-Ball machine he keeps in his in-law’s garage, ...
On December 8, 1908, a little more than a year after submitting his application, Joseph Fourestier Simpson was granted a patent for a “game apparatus.” Simpson's contraption featured a long alley ...
On Sunday afternoon, Eric Pavony stood on a Williamsburg street wearing a pink shirt, a straw hat, and numerous armbands, getting a crowd of nearly 70 people amped up. “Outside, right now, should be ...
Bowling takes too much room. Darts are dangerous. Shuffleboard is messy. Skee-Ball is the bar game of the moment. Every kid who ever wandered into a Chuck E. Cheese's or spent a long afternoon in a ...
A day at the beach is not complete without visiting an arcade to play a few rounds of Skee Ball. It can cost a dime, a quarter or 50 cents to roll nine balls down a 10-foot alley to an awaiting ...
We may have reached the end of an era last week when Skee-Ball Inc., the Bucks County-based company that invented the arcade hit in 1909, was sold to Wisconsin-based rival Bay Tek Games. That doesn't ...
“TRY leaning your leg against the machine,” says Alex Choi, one of the best rollers in Brooklyn’s Brewskee-ball league. “That’ll keep your body from moving too much.” It works: your correspondent’s ...
Score one for the hipsters. A Brooklyn-based Skee- Ball league and the originators of the classic seaside wooden-ball-roll game have settled their copyright rumble after a nearly four-year legal war, ...
It’s a busy happy hour at Buffalo Billiards in Philadelphia’s Old City neighborhood. The pool tables are full. So are the shuffleboard courts. And all the way in the back, patrons, many wearing ...
The rowdy crowd is ready to roll as Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” cranks at Elixir Bar & Grill. It’s mostly dudes in various combinations of beards and ball caps gathered on this recent Tuesday night, a ...
ABC News discovers a skee-ball shark lurking in Iowa. —FORT DODGE, Iowa -- It’s a busy day for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, but he ...
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