United States | In fine feather

Could feather bowling be the next pickleball?

One Belgian bar in Detroit has kept it alive for a century

Wooden wheels used in feather bowling stored in a crate.
Flemish flourishImage: The Cadieux Cafe
|DETROIT AND BROOKLYN

People in Detroit take their sport seriously. Downtown, Comerica Park, the home of the Tigers, a baseball team, and the Little Caesars Arena, where the Red Wings play ice hockey and the Pistons basketball, draw enormous crowds. As revered arenas go however, far older than both is the Cadieux Cafe, on the eastern edge of the city. There, most nights, but especially on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, locals take part in a game called “feather bowling”.

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