skeevy shoes
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The Hollywood Bowl is Portland’s gigantic bowling alley. not very good food, but generally fun. the shoes, however, suck (unlike this classic pair). faded neon color and velcro straps. ‘nuf said. so i was there for a pal’s b-day the other night and the cutest, funniest thing did i see: a 3 or 4 year old boy, very short of course, with older bro and mom and dad, bowling a couple of lanes over. |
they put up the bumpers and this kid starts bowling with them. he waddles up to the wood, heaves this ball no less than a third his weight, over to the line and as best he can, and rolls it with a thump. after i got done laughing at how sweet this was, i realized that is quite a feat. it’s as if i were to try and bowl with a ball roughly two feet in diameter and over 60 pounds! sheeeit! you go kid.
February 25th, 2003 at 2:48 am
i had my nikes stolen there once by the kids bowling next to me. I had to beg the alley to let me wear their bowling shoes out for the rest of the night, with the promise that I’d take them back. I think I forgot to.
February 25th, 2003 at 9:00 am
that is a tragic story. if your sneaks aren’t safe in a bowling alley, where are they safe?
the best bowling in pdx is cosmic bowling over on morrison. they have black lights and shoes/balls/etc. that glow in the dark.