St Kilda Bowling Club
Editorial
At the St Kilda Bowling Club, you don’t need to know anything about lawn bowls to soak in the time-honoured traditions associated with this genteel pastime, although many of its patrons do. Formed in 1865, the club is the second oldest existing bowls club in Australia and still operates primarily for that purpose.
However, increasingly, is a destination for St Kilda-ites to toss away their working day worries, sit back with a beer and wind the world back a few notches. Hidden behind a high hedge on Fitzroy Street, this is the place of choice for cheap pots, bar-priced spirits and commonplace nuts and chips. Drinkers do not come here for anything fancy. It’s basic front bar stuff, no-nonsense service and designer-free in every way. It’s all wonderfully shabby (but definitely not chic) with a real ‘left over’ feel to the furnishings, not the least of which is the aged portrait of a young Queen Elizabeth over the bar.
In addition to a romp with ‘jack or ‘kitty’ on the green, the recreational curricula extends to pool, pinball, darts or table soccer. Such is the appeal of this place for its relaxed and leisurely paced approach to life that you may end up sharing a sausage sizzle with a team of boozed-up ad agency types, pierced and inked-up goths or somewhat bewildered senior long-term club members, all mixing it in the name of cheap beer and cheap thrills.
Brenton Geyer, April 2010
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