Trendspot: Bowling

shoe again?
Originally uploaded by hoopty.

"Bowling is sexy!," declares an article in yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer. A few years ago, if you asked people what they thought of bowling, most would say "smelly shoes" and a wholesome throwback image, harking on 1950s "family fun."

In this day and age, families are tighter - doing more together, and being wholesome in 21st century fashion. Parents tend to be friends with their kids and kids like to hang out with their parents more. Sure the food is a little better, the retro furnishings a little sleeker, but the draw of it all is that people are coming together and interacting. The new trend seems to be steering (a little) away from the passive interraction of playing internet based games at home and going out and having active interraction. This also ties into the high regard of "family values" that are making the Oh-Oh's more and more like the '50s (just look at any generational study and you will see the pattern).