Exploring Abandoned Martin's Bowling Alley, Hamilton Ontario
Exploring Abandoned Martin's Bowling Alley, Hamilton Ontario
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This now abandoned art deco bowling alley has been around for more than half a century.
It was well taken care of, and had a mid-century, well-lived-in beauty. There are hand-carved benches and a wide staircase off to the side, in soft, yellow wood.
There is no electronic scoring, it’s all paper, except for the leagues, which determine score using a chalkboard on the wall farthest from the door.
They served Labatt 50 and Canadian Club, Uncle Ray’s chips. It is a working-class place, in a working-class town.
Sometime around June 2018 I was driving around town free-styling and looking for abandoned places to visit.
I passed by this old looking bowling alley with boarded up windows and doors. I took a walk around the perimeter and discovered that there was not yet any way inside, I noted the address and would return.
Fast forward a couple of months later and I passed the building again and noticed a door was open, I figured one of two things
1 – The property owner is inside cleaning things out
2 – A scrapper or homeless person forced their way in.
I would be correct on the second point, and I would soon see that someone had gone to GREAT lengths to get access to the building and they made off with as much scrap metal as they could find.
I grabbed my flashlight and poked my head in the door, calling out to see if anyone was inside. It was pitch black and it smelled like an old bowling alley, the last games scores were still on the chalk board and old posters and advertisements still hung. I walked through, calling out continuously expecting to be confronted by an unhappy scrapper or homeless person.
I had cleared the main level, which contained six 5 pin bowling lanes and a bar/cash area. There were stairs heading up and I figured it was probably offices or apartments, the door was closed so I cautiously opened the door and called out only to be met by another 6 lanes of art deco bowling and more old style cigarette ads on the walls.
I called RiddimRyder Photography and told him to get his ass down here now and lets do this place up, and that we did!
We would return again two days later for a hilarious photo shoot that will be revealed later on this week, then we would return again with Carlo Paolozza for a #3plymafia reunion.
The funny thing is, we didn't know it yet but over the course of 3 days we would end up finding and exploring THREE abandoned/closed down bowling alleys.
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