Candlepin Bowling - Paul Berger's Legendary 500 Triple (Full Telecast)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Figured I'd reupload this show from 1992 again, this time with better quality and no commercials.
Like I have said before when I originally posted this telecast, this is definitely one of my all time favorite Candlepin Bowling shows, as it stands out as probably the most historic Candlepin Bowling match of all time.
Hope you enjoy :)
(Please note: This video, along with any other video on this RUclips channel, might contain flashing lights, flickering lights, and/or fast-moving objects just as a heads up.)
I'm 61 years old.
Today I only now learned of Candlepin bowling. One truly does never stop learning.
Not a bad axiom old timer.
I'm going to be 60 this year. 200+ bowler, and this is the 1st I've heard of it.
Have you heard of duckpin bowling? Check it out.
Same here, 60, bowled lots. Saw this last week
Do come to New England and bowl it
If anyone ever looked like a purchasing manager for Sun Microsystems, it's this guy.
I worked for Sun Microsystems which is now Oracle.
Never met Paul but what of like to. Growing Up in Woburn used to go to the the bowling alley on Montvale Ave
Doug that's freaking hilarious!
Fo sho
Kinda funny my pops was a purchasing manager for mobile telesystems and they would bowl all the time.
The crazy thing about your comment, is that the second I read it, the commentator said it lol.
This is fantastic. The announcer gives a master-class in TV hosting.
Don Gillis was somewhat of a legend here in Boston. I watched these bowling matches just about every weekend when I was a kid.
@@markdisanzo3796 Gillis isn't somewhat of a legend. He IS a legend. Grew up listening to that guy. He was a total pro and was almost never ruffled. But he loved a good joke and every once in a while something would strike him funny and he'd get a little off the spot. Great memories.
@@markdisanzo3796 so did I till it got taken off the air in 2005. It baffles me how Paul got a 193 in the 3rd string. He was really in the zone.
Don was a native of Nova Scotia.
Don Gillis, Doug Brown, Paul Mennier, and Bruce Stephen were the best Candlepin Bowling announcers you can get.
I would watch this show and other candlepin bowling shows in the 70s. I bowled candlepins myself for the first time on my 52nd birthday in Webster, Mass. It was a bucket list item.
Candlepins For Cash with Bob Gramere.
Bay State Bowling in the Seventies.
@@AlanNelsonUNC Bay State Bowling was taped at in the bottom floor of the State Mutual Life building in Worcester. One of their companies was Hanover Insurance for whom my Father worked as an area marketing director his final fourteen years there.
I don't know how the algorithm got me here, but I'm a Paul Berger super fan now
I remember watching this great performance on channel 5 like it was yesterday. My Mom loved this program, and we watched it religiously in my home growing up. Back then in New England, candlepin bowling WAS bowling; we called the other kind “big-ball” bowling and it was hard to find.
I’ve spent my entire life in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and always found it weird that our bowling is different than what you see on tv. It’s literally impossible to find big ball bowling alleys over here still today.
My experiences exactly. I'm 55 and remember this live. Nice to relive it.
It's like a complete flip of west coast. Can't find candlepin bowling alleys over here. I lived in New Hampshire briefly when I was 9 years old and got to try candlepin, I hated it. I was a "big ball" league and tournament bowler and just couldn't understand how this worked. As an adult I would love to try again.
@@darklordojedayou just gotta send the ball straight at the target. The lanes aren't oiled like 10-pin so hooking your shots doesn't work. There's way less margin for error so it's easy to brick shots. It's part of the fun. Getting a strike is like hitting a homerun as apposed to 10-pin where leaving anything standing feels like a strikeout.
I've never seen any candlepin bowling her in upstate New York, but I'd love to try it sometime. It seems more strategical and looks fun. I'm sure I wouldn't have a problem getting hooked.
I loved Paul Berger...what an awesome delivery! So fluid! RIP for the great Don Gillis. I was a regular viewer of Candlepin Bowling every week - what awesome and wholesome entertainment.
"Hang on to your tray tables, boys and girls"
YOU DONT EVEN KNOW CANDLEPIN BOWLING
@@sunspot6502 loved when he said that
I liked Berger as well was also a fan of Gary Carrington.
This is the essence of Saturdays for me growing up. From late morning until afternoon this was simply a tradition. I went to the Fairway in Natick more times than i can count and I miss these days very much. RIP DON GILLIS
@@SimuLord I agree it is right up there with the New England Chinese food. Which is still huge on New Years. At least that has not changed. I used to bowl in Natick all the time in the 80s and 90s. I miss it. That area has changed so much.
Lol I lived in Tennessee my whole life and used to watch this on Satellite Dish as it was on NESN and replayed during the week on tons of SportsChannels. I never understood why so many of the bowlers was from Massachusetts.
@@kennethhall289 It was such a huge sport locally back then.
Also grew up in Natick and rolled at the Fairway with Dad and brother. It was our winter activity.
Don Gillis really made these shows just that much better. What a voice.
He was always right on top of things and certainly well prepared. Very well produced broadcast, too: cameras, direction, replays, all of it.
I remember candle pin bowling above the fire station in Waterville Maine when I was 12 years old. It was called Metro Bowl. 10 lanes and we had to wait forever for our name to be called but it was so worth it. This was around 1974 what a magical place. Give anything to relive it.
Why do I come back to this every few years... and I'm still amazed. I went to Lowell for work, and I had my boss looking for a candlepin lanes. Grew up on rubberband ducks (with a human pinsetter, either that or tenpin).
Just happened upon this channel and now I am obsessed with this sport. Never heard of candlepin bowling and it amazes me that it is not more popular in the Midwest.
I'm from Braintree Massachusetts, I grew up playing candlepin, as a matter of fact I didn't know 10 pin even existed as a youngster.
I have since moved to about 3 different states across the US, and have never once seen candlepin bowling outside of Massachusetts.
I'm surprised it's not more popular, it's difficult, yet very fun and rewarding.
@@jimmysp4des229 Braintree guy here too. Played at Olindy's as a kid and then Timber Lanes when I could drive. Have since moved away and I also have never seen the game anywhere else. My Dad would take me to Boston Bowl so I did play a little tenpin growing up but I always thought candelpin was the better game. I'm planning a trip home for the spring may have to see if the old balls are still at the parents house...
Minnesota resident here originally from Massachusetts. Every time I go bowling in MN, I talk up candlepin bowling. Actually once found another candlepin fan at Flaherty's Arden Bowl. WE NEED IT HERE IN MN!! :)
@@joshsmith894 hey Josh, Burns here, tell Matt I said Hi, I know it's gotta be you. Small world huh?
The beautiful nostalgia of VHS tapes 0:31 Brings back memories, the video and audio errors in magnetic tape. Glorious!
I grew up in Pennsylvania and my grandparents lived in Massachusetts. Whenever we would visit my grandfather would always watch candle stick bowling on TV every Saturdays. This brings me right back to the 1960s and wonderful memories.
Double high-five from Richards after Berger finishes his 193. Class move.
He got absolutely steamrolled, so what else could he do? These guys were always classy.
I remembered watching this episode on ch.5 !!!!! Boy do I miss bowling on tv.
me to
And Its still on tv what do u live in a cave???
FS1
I watched Ch 5 bowling from the late 50s when it started, but I've probably watched more candlepin bowling than that in the past decade on RUclips.
I'm sixtyseven. started watching it about two years ago on you tube. lived in Iowa all my life. being able to bowl a couple of games of candlepin bowling is now on my bucket list.
What made it so much more impressive was that Berger didn't start off as hot but more typical you'd expect in candlepin...but went on a roll of consecutive marks in spares and strikes!
The host of this show seemed like a great guy. You can tell he truly loved this sport
Don Gillis was a legendary Boston sportscaster
I religiously watched this show every Saturday at noon since I was a small boy basically ever since I remember. Somehow I missed this program. Dad always talked about this show so thank you so much for putting it up. Tom Olszta is the best candlepin bowler I've ever seen but Paul Berger is great as well so this is awesome to watch
It's a beautiful Friday night in the middle of July and I am watching this for at least the 4th time in as many years, I think I need a Doctor!
Candle pin bowling is spectacular. Here bowlers aim at the pins and wood. Throws are faster, stronger and more challenging than in ten pin bowling. Thanks for the video.
i'll never forget where I was when Paul Berger got his Legendary 500 Triple
Two events in history I’ll always remember what I was doing for; 9/11 and Paul Berghers legendary 500
@@rizzorizzo2311 lol
@@rizzorizzo2311 9/11? What's that?
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
YT never cease to amaze. I've never heard of Candlepin bowling until now. I'm in my 40's.
Absolutely phenomenal indeed!! Been watching Don Gillis Ch.5 bowling many many Saturdays, really loved it when Don announces the highest total in almost 34 years of this program which started October 1958.
Don't forget 11 AM Next Saturday.
RIP Don Gillis,the Dean of Boston Sportscasters.
I was born that month and year on the 22nd the same year the PBA tour originated. I'm better known for the sport of pinball being a former 6 time world champion. I bowled on the professional bowler's tour and was a top 5 pin bowler in Canada. Bowled candlepins in Moncton, New Brunswick but lived in Toronto Canada at the time.
The specific episode that was the subject of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones' 2011 song "The Ballad of Candlepin Paul" 😊
I have never seen candlepin bowling. I've never tried it and oh my God it actually looks more challenging and more difficult than regular bowling.
read your last word again, hahaha
It IS more challenging. Nobody has EVER gotten a perfect 300 in Candlepin. What does that tell ya?
@@Mdg897 read carefully idiot...
@@Mdg897 tells me that I want to go try a candlepin bowling that's what it tells me looks like the first 300 might be mine
@@lefttheleft8934Hey, look son a real life Lahoo-Zaher in the wild. Don't mind him, boy. Dumb people are EVERYWHERE.
Had a random dream about candlepin bowling tonight. Decided to look it up when I awoke, since I've only ever seen pictures of the tall, thin pins. Had no idea the ball was so small or that the pins remain in the alley until each set is done. What a cool introduction to the sport. And man, what arms on those dudes.
500 for 3 games? In candlepin? That's freaking awesome!
An average of 167 for 3 games.
Thank you so much for this I grew up watching this show so much ! ~ in NH 1984 to 1993
I don't know what the hell Candlepin Bowling is but now I know I'm incredibly invested in this.
Wait till you learn about duckpin. They're like fat little soda bottles. I bowled professionally in my younger years out west, and moved to new England and was blown away by candlestick/duckpin.
Head to Boston and try it. You'll be even more impressed after you realize the difficulty level. Best bowlers were also best softball pitchers. In Boston, Modified fast ball was the game of choice; as fast as you can throw with just an underarm swing. Same motion for both sports.
I pretty much grew up going to this bowling alley. Unforgettable memories.
Is this fairway in natick?
@@ncc1962 yes
@@mikefromusa6902also grew up bowling there, crazy to see it on here
Thank you for taking the time making this video and sharing your preserving a part of history and for that I thank you
Thanks for posting these great shows, Wolfman. Channel 5 disappointed a lot of people when they cancelled the show in 1996 just to save a few bucks.
Funzo Boston College football (trash) cancelled this show. Too bad. Never came back.
I have known of this version for a long time, but never saw it until I saw it here on RUclips about a week ago. I have always wanted to see how it was played, but it never occured to me to look it up here. I am glad I did. It's a fun sport to watch.
Incredible performance towards the end of this legendary program's run. I remember seeing this while in College and thought, "Channel 5 still airs this?"
candlepin bowling can't get any better than that and everyone was so happy for him.
I went candlepin bowling recently. It's much harder than it looks. These guys make it look so easy with deadly accuracy.
And this match happened when the pin action was not nearly as lively as it is now.
I grew up here in New England on Cape Cod, and I've bowled candlepin ever since I was a little kid. I once bowled a 156 game in a bowling league I was in, which is a pretty good score.
Although the commentator on this telecast (Don Gillis) was sports anchor for Boston's Channel 5 for decades, he's best remembered for doing the weekly candlepin bowling show.
It aired Saturdays at 12 Noon and for it's entire run dominated Boston TV ratings in that time period, often getting more viewers as every other channel combined!
It was must watch TV for me for many years. When it first aired in October 1958, I was but a few weeks old.
It’d regularly get better ratings than the Sox.
Wow. My high 3-game series in standard tenpin bowling is only a 511, so I'm very impressed by this.
I remember watching this as a kid. Paul in 92 was bowling out of his mind. It was his year.
I watched this live. Paul Berger was simply en fuego this day. I was a 117 average, with a high of 159. Breaking 500 in a 3 game set is unreal. Fantastic seeing Don Gillis after so many years.
Incredible! Both bowlers picked up some crazy leaves, and put up amazing numbers!
I used to watch this with my Dad every Saturday afternoon, my High School had a candlepin team
Thanks for posting these videos! I'm wandering around RUclips and stumbled on some bowling videos and it made me think of candlepin! I'm from Worcester and my parents were really into it before I was born. Colonial on Mill Street closed recently and I'm not sure there are many candlepin lanes left!
Westgate in Brockton is a mixed house. I bowl tenpin there, but the candlepin lanes there are seemingly always in use. It's good to see.
Mohegan Candlepin in Webster is still open and doing well all these years later if you're still itching for a game. If I didn't live on the WC now, i sure as hell would!
@@peteg475 there were at least 3 alleys in Brockton when I grew up there. Westgate, Maple Alleys, and there was one on Lawrence Street behind the Brockton Cafe. I also remember a duckpin alley in the early 60's.
That theme music for Candlepin Bowling was really happening 🤣🤣🤣
At times, it was more exciting than the action itself
This looks like A-blast. I can't imagine why I didn't take off more. I have got to try this before I die.
Man... It's been a long time since I've heard that theme. I'm 43 and from MA. This used to be on on the weekend. I've never bowled anything but candlepin.
I just found this channel recently. Really wished they had Candlepin bowling down here in NC as I have never heard of it. Looks like more fun than regular bowling.
Great show, and great bowling! Grew up bowling candlepin in NH before moving away and never seeing it again. I think my high score might have been around 125.
I remember going to the Fairway Lanes as a kid from nearby Ashland. Those alleys sure look pristine in this video, and the pins don't drop as easily when they're not worn at the ends. You have to be good to rack up big numbers.
Thanks for posting this event with the great Don Gillis.
I used to watch this every week during the summer (couldn't get the channel at my winter home). With Don's familiar voice coming back in an instant.
I'm so glad I found this!
Always love watching this. I think I watch it once a year. My father years ago always talked about it but I never believed it until you posted the old videos when they were clipped into 3 parts.
When we first got cable we got the station from Worcester Ma that showed Candlepin bowling. My Mom and I enjoyed watching it.
Absolutely loved this, use to watch this as a kid with my mom every Saturday morning, all duckpin and 10 pin in Connecticut but I have bowled candlepin in Mass maybe 7 or 8 times and broke 100 once.and not by much either..lol. It is tough and that was 3 awesome strings he played, some of those spares were incredible.
I didn't ask for this but here I am with the rest of you .
Interesting to see this on line. I grew up in Wyoming Ohio with candlepin lanes at the civic center.
Huh. Didn't know this existed. It's almost like I've entered to alternative universe
holy crap a year later and I just said the same thing. Its like the Matrix refreshed.
@@Texacer well of course they update the servers for others
I’ve heard of it, never seen it until just now 🙂
For me its a trip home... and saturdays... soccer, then come home, dad would make hamburgers, we'd finish off looney tunes (unless it was a late soccer game) and then it was time for bowling.
This is when times were simpler
Mom would take us candlepin bowling on Saturdays in Rockland , Maine in the 60's. It was lot of fun.
Played this game for many years in Woodsville New Hampshire. Great fun with friends. I believe the lanes are closed for a number of years now.
Yup. Sounds about right to pop up in my recommended. *watches the entire video*.
Southwick, MA still has candlepin lanes. I grew up in Holyoke, MA but live in the Nashville area nowadays. Still grab a game when I am home to visit.
Holyoke mass is such a bad area nowadays sadly I'm currently living here myself. I've been to the south wick lanes before I like it alot check it out once in. Awhile when I can
I live in Fall River Mass
I remember watching this incredible match when I was a much younger man... what a trip to happen to see it again today...
Yep,plus eastern Canada!
Great match... thanks for reposting!
I've never heard of candlepin bowling. Until this happened in my recommendations 🤯
I used to work on Saturdays back in the early 1990s, so I would record these shows and watch them later while eating dinner. I know I have this particular show on a VHS tape somewhere. I know I saved it and watched it several times.
This is the best candleclip of all time.
The sportsmanship shown by the opponent is nice. Even he had to respect it lol i spent 40 mins watching a sport ive never heard of
This was amazing. Near the end, it was like he couldn't miss.
Where have you lead me RUclips algorithm? And why do I feel like I need to watch?
Say what you want about candlepin bowling the accuracy on these guys something else
Candlepin is how we bowl in Arlantic Canada. An immensely fun way to spend a few hours with the family.
500 is an unbelievable score in candlepin. It's way way harder than it looks!
We spent every summer in Quincy, MA. with my grandparents. My sister and I walked into a bowling alley and couldn't believe it what we saw. I'm from Memphis and we didn't know what candle pin was.
I grew up watching this. I’m 62 years old and was never really good at it but I did have fun as a novice bowler. Many Massachusetts towns had these alleys .It was more popular than the PBA.
We watched these bowling broadcasts with my Grampy growing up in Lawrence, Mass. We were in a candlepin league with our school, Saint Patrick’s, also in Lawrence. Brings back very fond memories.
Ps. I didn’t ‘big ball bowl’ until after college. 😂
I remember that word got out about this well in advance of the show’s airing. I’d bet this was one of the highest rated episodes they ever had. It was something to watch.
I miss Fairway in Natick. Used to go there all the time during my childhood.
Don Gillis was magnificent! A legend!
This is my new favorite sport to watch. I played once when I was living on the east coast, briefly, when I was about 9 years old. I was a traditional bowler and didn't like candlepin at all. As an adult I really want to give it another shot. Not sure how many candlepin bowling alleys there are on the west coast though, if any at all.
None. You have to go north of Connecticut to find them. Plenty of candlepin houses still left in the Boston area. I think there's one or two in Ohio, and that's it. It's a New England-Canadian Maritimes sport.
This looks fun to do. I have been bowling for YEARS and due to some injuries....I have lost some technique to bowl the way I used to.
I would like to try this.
I need to see where there is candlespin bowling in PA.
Unfortunately, nowhere. You need to go to New England/Canadian Maritimes or one or two places in Ohio. That's it.
@Bob I grew up in Boston but now live in Western PA. We grew up bowling candlepin at Lucky Strike Lanes in Dorchester. Whenever I ask any of the locals if they ever heard of candlepins they say, "What's that?" Then I'll pull up a YT clip on my phone and show them. Then they say, "That's craaazy!" 😏
@@JohnSmith-mx8wp lol...I can understand that. I think I have heard of candlestick bowling before but I never knew what it was.
I seem to remember bowling for dollars. I did candlepin bowling in Hanover mass. The bowling is harder than it looks. Never came close to 300 lol 500 wow
@@briangilmartin4654 I would definitely like to try it. I've been trying to find places in PA where there is candle pin bowling.
As a regular 10-pin player... I watch this and think about how a "Sport Shot" pattern is already difficult...
This just looks effin' HARD!
Skee-Ball on steroids...
Same for me. I'd like to try this and duck pin and see how it compares. My inclination would be to fade it in from the outside of the lane and hit the ball with my ring and middle fingers but clearly that's not an optimal strategy
This game far more difficult than 10 pin. Its easy in that anyone can roll a 2.6 lbs ball. But the ball is about the same diameter of the pin so you have to very accurate. The dead wood helps,but it can also hinder.
RUclips is the only place to watch new matches. The RUclips channel spread eagle productions. Granted its a one man show,he's trying at least.
As a traditional bowler, this is just bizarre to me.
It is a great game and certainly unique to this area.
I would say the same thing. I grew up in a bowling alley, been bowling since I was big enough to hold a ball. And this variation is just plain weird. Not knocking it, it is just foreign to me.
I am too, but I grew up and have lived in CT my entire 46 years on earth, and we have it all here lol.
@@jasoncamp483 this is similar to duckpin bowling and Baltimore.
@@Gladpants I bowled duck pin a few times in the late 80s. You're right it is. I had almost forgotten about it.
I enjoy watching these. I have to admit I like old commercials, too. So I wish those were still in there, but I understand I am in the minority with that view.
Dave's 371 would have won most weeks. Phenominal performace by Paul Berger.
RUclips Algo - Admit it, you'll watch anything.
Well it is legendary.
"Anything" LOL. This anything is the greatest triple ever bowled in the history of Candlepin bowling on TV. Truly phenomenal.
@@bobhayett2376 I was thoroughly entertained having never heard of candlepin bowling before in my life.
I want women’s collegiate candlepin bowling
I visited the Candlepin Bowling Hall of Fame in Dunn, Illinois.
I am 72 and never heard of this before! And the guy said it started back in '58? WOW
I dropped outta college to play candle stick bowling. I’m working at McDonald’s now 😅😊
I remember watching this when it first happened.on edge of my seat watching those pins fall to hit 500.
This is the only kind of bowling I ever played throughout my childhood. I always thought it was weird that bowling in TV shows or movies always looked different, and I assumed it must be better and classier since fictional yuppies on TV did it and apparently only fozen yokels from the deep north preferred candlepin bowling. We used bowl candlepin A LOT though; it's a pretty solid indoor activity to help you get through Maine winters.
The first time I ever went "big ball bowling," as we called it, was during a visit to the big city of Bangor. I was amazed at how easy it was to get strikes and thought all the big screens, modern gear, fancy lighting, etc was really impressive.
Now as an adult I live on the West Coast, and I'd pay so much extra to go candlepin bowling around here. It's so much more enjoyable and an all around better game, in my opinion. I find the weight of giant bowling balls very awkward & uncomfortable, and sticking my fingers in those holes is not only awkward, but also kind of disgusting if it's a public ball. There's no shoulder pain with candlepin, and there's a lot more you can do putting dramatic amounts of spin on the ball. Candlepin kinda feels like skee ball on steroids.
I used to bowl a lot in league and for shits and giggles would fill the house ball finger holes with beer.
@@jolkraeremeark6949
You asshat. That was you?
@TheBatugan77 yeah, gave that up, beer is too expensive anymore.
Thank's wolfman, this is a fantastic game and got me interested in the sport
It's monday night I've a million channels on TV and I'm watching this on u tube, don't know why. Anyone else?
16:56 "ralph stewart, our referee in his accustomed spot....wearing another from his HUGE wardrobe of sweaters" 😂😂😂😂
I remember watching this during the day on early ESPN.
Back when I was so much younger then today, and living in Maine, this (and duck pin) were the only type bowling I knew. When I moved south and had to learn 10 pin bowling. What a change.
I'm a Southerner (Georgia) and I have heard of duckpins and candlepins, but never seen either one until seeing both here on RUclips.
Thanx 4 entire show without commercials!
All of Bergers strikes were hammers! Bowling a 500,is that like pitching a perfect game?
I guess I will watch almost anything. Never heard of Candle Pin bowling.
My parents played this back in the 50s and 60s in Maine.They never went to a regular bowling place until we moved to Kansas in 67
just the intro makess me nostalgic for period of time in which I did not exist. Classic Americana