It’s 4 p.m. in Suitland, and Megan Adkins and Thomas Osbourne pull into a gravel lot off Silver Hill Road just as the afternoon rush hour builds. Stepping into a bright red brick building and flipping a switch, they may as well have activated a time machine.
The lights come up on their slice of nostalgia, Suitland Bowl. There’s an air of the old-school here — burgundy and aquamarine chairs surround two dozen slick lanes. Stout pins line the front desk, and knickknacks fill a nearby trophy case.
“We wanted to keep everything authentic and retro,” said Adkins, as the first few bowlers start to poke into the alley for a set of tournaments that night. “I know when I was a kid, I would hang out in an alley for hours. I want this to be a place where people come and want to stay for a while.”
Suitland is a duckpin bowling alley — different from the traditional 10-pin game in that it uses a smaller handheld ball rolled against stout pins. Often the two varieties of the game enjoy something…
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