Skee-Ball is to the Shore as what baseball is to Cooperstown — a game that connects generations. “Skee-Ball has been part of the Jersey Shore forever and ever since 1907,” said Ed Pohlman, owner of ...

The one-hit wonder is nothing new and has been a part of entertainment since anyone can remember. While we can point to many instances in history where an artist wound up being a flash-in-the-pan and ...

In 1909, the same year that William Howard Taft became president, the arcade game known as skee-ball made its appearance. That same year, an issue of Popular Mechanics heralded this “new and unique ...

In the early 1900s, the thing Joseph Fourestier Simpson desired most was to create something people respected. A career hustler—real estate agent, cash register salesman, and railroad clerk were just ...

Among summer indoor sports, Skee-ball owns a popular niche. It has long been an outlet for seasonal and vacation entertainment, situated, as it often is, inside oceanside arcades along the boardwalk.

Skee-Ball, the hundred-year-old coin-operated boardwalk game for misfits, cheats and beach bums, is receiving its due in an unlikely yet inevitable setting: a Williamsburg bar. On November 29, the ...

“TRY leaning your leg against the machine,” says Alex Choi, one of the best rollers in Brooklyn’s Brewskee-ball league. “That’ll keep your body from moving too much.” It works: your correspondent’s ...

What it takes to become the national Skee-Ball champion. — -- After years of near-misses in tournaments and hours of practicing on the Skee-Ball machine he keeps in his in-law’s garage, ...

This article contains interviews with DJ Skee, entrepreneur Mark Cuban, SKEEMATIC President Ryan Tomlinson, rapper 2Chainz, and fine artist Aaron Axelrod. Scott Keeney can’t find a position to ...