{"id":333996,"date":"2026-08-31T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:48:11","slug":"staten-islands-iconic-showplace-bowling-is-closing-monday-a-look-back-at-its-heyday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/333996\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island\u2019s Iconic Showplace Bowling Is Closing Monday: A Look Back at Its Heyday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Showplace Bowling Center in Travis is closing on Monday, ending a longtime borough business and a familiar spot for Staten Islanders. The alley first opened in 1987, closed in 1998, and reopened in 2004. It once featured 64 lanes, two lounges, a bowling and golf pro shop, and a full arcade game room. The wider Showplace Entertainment Center also included a multiplex movie theater, restaurants, a pizzeria, an ice cream parlor, billiards, and other attractions. People remember birthday parties, weekend hangouts, karaoke nights, turtle races, live bands, and high-roller events like the Showplace Classic. Its closure comes four years after LA Fitness shut its doors in the Travis plaza, and that building remains vacant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Showplace Bowling Center in Travis is closing on Monday, ending a longtime borough business and a familiar spot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[125590,1638,9,24,63,125588,125589,134,136,135,21167,13126],"class_list":["post-333996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-125590","tag-monday","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-showplace-bowling-center","tag-showplace-entertainment-center","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-staten-islanders","tag-travis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}