Shatto 39 Lanes

2011 | Best Preserved Old-School Bowling Alley

Finding an old-school place to knock down several drinks and a few pins ain't as easy as you'd think in the city that, thanks to The Big Lebowski, is famed for dive-bar bowling. Many of the great haunts have suffered major upgrades and remodels. But not Shatto 39 Lanes, a colossal beige building on the corner of West 4th Street and Vermont in Koreatown. Shatto is testament to old-fashioned gaming fun, where 1978 meets 1998. Walk up a flight of red metal stairs and enter a world filled with... More »