Twice during this episode, Perry is at a place called La Playa bar. He's playing some sort of game which looks like a table-top version of curling or bocci, in which he was pushing/sliding something down the table. But I didn't see any other 'pieces' on the board or any marks that indicated what he was doing.
So what WAS he doing? What is the game?
Perry was bowling using a sliding silver puck that was the "ball" to hit the pins. Lost many a quarter in a bar in Pittsburgh (Sunny Jim's)that had one back in the 60's when waiting for a basket of chicken!
shareInteresting, thanks for the reply. I don't recall seeing any pins, though, or else I would have recognized the bowling connection. To me it just looked like he slid the ball/puck down an empty alley.
Is it called bowling? Or is there another name? I'm from a northeastern/mid-Atlantic state myself, and don't recall seeing anything like that.
Not bowling, no pins on a playing field four times longer. More like shuffle board, bocchie ball, even curling.
Popular in the 60s in suburban roadhouses that had the room.
Exactly!! As I said, it looks like a table-top (very loooooong table-top) version of curling or bocce. There were absolutely no pins visible, and no place from which to "hang" any. Only the table itself.
Still no name for it? Hmm, quite a mystery.
My sister-in-law has one in her basement. It is a shuffleboard table.
Here is a website that sells them:
http://www.fairviewgamerooms.com/shop/categories/shuffleboards/9-shuffleboard-table-w-butcher-block-playfield/
Recently saw a British show featuring a stately manor house dating from the 1800's or so and they had a long beautiful, highly polished 20-foot table that was made for playing shuffleboard.
shareShuffleboard, most bars had them in the 70s and 80s. No pins involved.
shareIt was shuffledboard, but I remember those table top bowling games well; most bowling alleys had them in the '60s and '70s. Under the hanging pins were pressure receptors (little curved wires) and the pins reacted to how you hit the wires. You had to slide the disk over the 1-2 or 1-3 wires for a strike; if you hit 1-2-3 you usually got a 7-10 or a 4-7-6-10 split. They were a lot of fun. Ah, the good old days.