I always enjoy photographing unusual businesses. That was the case when I was assigned to produce a Google virtual tour and still photos for American Flat Bread in Sommerville, Massachusetts https://americanflatbread.com/locations/somerville-ma/ . The pizza there is handmade and baked in a stone fireplace with glowing embers.
What makes the location unique is the pizza restaurant also has lanes for candlestick bowling.
You will find candlestick bowling only in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and the Maritime Providences of Canada. The ball used in candlestick bowling is only 4.5 inches in diameter and weighs two pounds seven ounces. Unlike ten pin bowling, no one has ever scored a perfect game of 300. The highest score recorded was 245 in 2014.
The bowling costs $39 / hour per lane and shoe rental is $4.
You can take the Google tour here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/a9wh5JezQwZtwm3p9
According to the manager Melissa Merrill, the bowling alley is the last of 19 originally opened in 1939 by the famous Sacco’s Bowling family who allowed American Flatbread to take over the building and the bowling. “So now it’s not condos, it’s candlepins. It’s not a parking lot, it’s pepperoni.”
This was one of many unique businesses that I had the privledge to photograph this year, So far, 2025 has been an amazing year for me!
Timothy Becker
Creative Images Photography
901 Main St.
Manchester, CY 06040
tim@2cimages.com
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