#3 Bowling in Blanco

9-Pin Bowling

For a little birthday surprise, my son Scott arranged an evening of 9-pin bowling in Blanco, TX. There are only a handful of these old bowling alleys in the States and I believe they are all in small Texas towns of German heritage.  Because they use only 9 pins, a pinsetter has to be hired ahead of time.  If you look very carefully, you can see Kevin our 12 year old pinsetter, perched and ready to the left of the bowling pins.  He reset our pins and placed our balls on the wooden track to shoot them back to us.   This alley in Blanco has been open since the 1940's, so this was a celebration of the 50's and 40's!!

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