Did any one grow up bowling in NY Brooklyn etc?

[LOUVIT]

It's so funny because the left side of the headpin strike was known as a Jersey strike to us not Brooklyn. I bowl in a senior league and now have them saying Jersey to to left side....lol

[got_a_300]

Nope never bowled up there but my favorite saying for someone
that throws a wild ball that goes way to the left of the headpin
is ("man that one was California bound") LOL!!!!!! :)

[Mike White]

It's so funny because the left side of the headpin strike was known as a Jersey strike to us not Brooklyn. I bowl in a senior league and now have them saying Jersey to to left side....lol

It's a Manhattan-Centric thing.

Imagine you're in lower Manhattan, facing south.

If you pull the ball, it crosses over the East River, and it's in Brooklyn.

Instead, your facing north.

If you pull the ball, it crosses over the Hudson River, and it's in Jersey.

[LOUVIT]

lol I,m talking Bushwick Brooklyn and even houses around the area, I shot alot of "action or pot games" in the day, Don't know if money games are still called action or pot games...lol, and a light hit to the left was a Jersey mixer.....hahahaha. the correct side strike was just called buried...or a mixer, I worked at hart lanes my main house and action at Glenwood and green acres. i remember mark roth and jonny pet. with us....long long time ago

[Hot_pocket]

In the Bronx and Westchester I mostly heard jersey. Every once in a while someone would say Brooklyn. Jersey just sounds so much better though lol. Bowling for money is still called action and pot games.

[JasonNJ]

I grew up in NYC and we always called it Jersey. Now I live in Jersey, we call it Brooklyn. =P

[1VegasBowler]

I grew up in the Hudson Valley, about 1 hour north of NYC and it was called the Brooklyn side.

[jimgilmore]

I grew up in Queens and heard both.