Bowling Terminology, Part 1

Alley - the alley is the playing surface, once made of maple and pine boards. Today most alleys (or lanes as they are also called) are synthetic.

Most people even today refer to a bowling center as a bowling alley, but business owners prefer to call it a bowling center!

"All the way" - to complete a game from any point with a series of strikes

Approach - the area of the lane/alley behind the foul line. The approach has arrows painted/embedded in it to act as aiming points.

The American Weekly August 19, 1951