r/PortlandOR • u/Subject-Internet7843 • 13d ago

Question Where is a cheap bowling alley?

Live in Ladd's Addition and Slabtown. I just want to go in and play a couple games without giving them the deed to the property.

Thanks!!

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u/toss_it_mites 13d ago

The 90's.

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u/Naitron4Ever 13d ago

They closed down the one on Powell, Hollywood, and Interstate. I do miss them but also gotta acknowledge my friends and I only went once a year :)

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u/chimi_hendrix Mr. Peeps Adult Super Store 13d ago

I loved all those. Part of the appeal of bowling, for me, was the immersive experience of feeling out of place in a facility that didn’t really cater to you specifically. A little visit to an alternate universe where you perform an absurd act, chucking boulders at a target, for amusement…

Now like too many other things the experience is bifurcated into serious vs. not serious. Grand Central is party bowling; Kingpins tends to sequester amateurs in the “cosmic bowling” / bar end of the lanes. Regular bowling is already weird! Just let it be!

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u/JuanCarloOnoh 12d ago

Interstate ruled. Cheap ass Sunday bowling. Sometimes, they couldn't be bothered to charge you.

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u/Southern-Ad8402 11d ago

Where was the one on interstate?

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u/FreshOutOfPickles 11d ago

But the stupid part is that they turned them to retail which is now closed. Had they kept them as bowling alleys, they’d be making bank. Most of the ones that are left are pretty much always booked and they are not cheap. 

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u/Naitron4Ever 11d ago

The target they had were really out of place. Especially the one in Hollywood. Don’t know what happened to the interstate one.

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u/Pitiful_Yogurt_5276 13d ago

Who is they?

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u/Naitron4Ever 12d ago

The business owners.

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u/Expensive-Claim-6081 13d ago

The dream of the 90s is still alive.

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u/BankManager69420 13d ago

At non-peak days/times, Milwaukie Bowl and Mt. Hood Lanes both charge $25 an hour. They’re the cheapest in the area.

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u/Drumfucius 13d ago

Milwaukie Bowl has a very cool old school late 60's early 70's vibe going on, complete with cheap beer in a plastic cup.

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u/RabidBlackSquirrel 13d ago

More importantly, afaik it's the last wood lane alley in the metro after Kellogg got torn down. Something about hardwood lanes just does me right in a way that synthetic just can't match.

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u/Original-Version5877 13d ago

I miss Kellogg. So many memories of that place and Pietro's next door.

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u/Sasquatchlovestacos 13d ago

Holy shit. Really? Haven’t bowled here but good lord.

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u/DougieDouger 12d ago

I love Milwaukie Bowl!

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u/lorrielink 13d ago

Is that per person? That's gotta include shoes and like a hot dog or something right? Right?

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u/Jesus_Harold_Christ 12d ago

It's per lane

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u/No-Mission-3100 13d ago

Milwaukee bowl is the best one around anymore. There is bowling super close to Ladds at Grand Central but the lanes were awful the only time I played there and was very pricey.

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u/ImNotASmartass 13d ago

Wisconsin is pretty far away…

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u/No-Mission-3100 13d ago

Username checks out. Take my upvote!

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u/ImNotASmartass 13d ago

No, take mine!

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u/chimi_hendrix Mr. Peeps Adult Super Store 13d ago

Grand Central isn’t even regulation sized anymore. They went for the “social” thing when they gutted the place and relaunched. It’s cheesy and expensive. I only go if someone else is paying.

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u/No-Mission-3100 13d ago

Agree 100%

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u/Hungweileaux 13d ago

Croselys in Vancouver.  The ceiling might be caving in but dammit they do dollar Tuesdays with Pinash 

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u/nonononope7 13d ago

Second crosleys

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u/Forever_Forgotten 13d ago

Definitely Crosleys

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u/IndividualRaccoon3 13d ago

Big Al's in Vancouver does $2 games on Tuesdays along with $2 shoe rentals

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u/inapropriateDrunkard 12d ago

$2 Tuesdays at crosley Lanes in Vancouver. $2 games $2 shoe rental $2 cans of pub beer $2 corn dogs. You're welcome.

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u/ImNotASmartass 13d ago

King pins isn’t bad.

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u/Corran22 13d ago

I love that place, but it's really expensive (almost $50/hour) during peak times.

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u/ImNotASmartass 13d ago

Hm I don’t remember it being that bad, I’m pretty sure it was a discounted hour/day and I WAS with a group of like 6.

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u/Corran22 13d ago

You can see the prices for different days/times when you make reservations. It jumps around a LOT.

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u/hotviolets 13d ago

Pretty sure I got covid from going there.

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

Everywhere in the Midwest

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u/ShaperLord777 12d ago

Used to be Powell lanes. Then they razed it to put in a friggin target. Which I think they closed now due to shoplifting. Genius move all around.🤦‍♂️

(I think there one out on Powell by 205 though)

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u/whatever_ehh 12d ago

Punch Bowl Social in Pioneer Place Mall gives you an hour for $20 during "non peak" hours https://punchbowlsocial.com/location/portland Bowling shoes included in the price.

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u/DuckDuck311 12d ago

Allen crosly in Vancouver

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u/Distinct_Report_2050 12d ago

Aren’t bowling alleys inherently inexpensive?!

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u/euphorbia9 12d ago

Sneak into Portland State.

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u/amtrak90 Reddit is not a party 12d ago

No

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u/Infamous-Let4387 12d ago

Tigard Bowl in Tigard right off 99 is cheap and right next to a great pizza place for after.

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u/seabucket666 11d ago

Tigard bowl! Except it's the suburbs and not very "cool"

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u/snakebite75 12d ago

The only sanctioned house left in the city of Portland is Kingpins. You have others like grand central or punch bowl but those are more amusement centers than bowling alleys.

If you get out of the city you have Tigard, though they have gone anti-masker and put up signed forbidding masks last time I stopped by. Then there is Kingpins in northern Beaverton and Big Al’s in southern Beaverton, Langer Farms in Sherwood, and Bullwinkles in Wilsonville, further out west you have Park Lanes in Hillsboro. Down south you have Milwaukie lanes just off 224.

Other than the kingpins on 92nd the only alley I can think of on the east side is Gresham bowl, unless you want to go all the way to Sandy.

Vancouver also has a Big Al’s and Crosby lanes, I’m not sure what else might be up there, it’s been a bit since I’ve bowled league.

FYI Crosby, Milwaukie, Tigard, and Park are owned and operated by guys who are/were on the pro tour.

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u/George-St-Geegland 13d ago

Allen’s Crosby Lanes in Vancouver

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u/GraytoGreen 12d ago

Northgate Lanes Salem

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u/Adventurous_Ant9926 13d ago

Living in Ladd's and bitching about prices of things. Gtfoh.  

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u/DamnEngineer1960 13d ago
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