Bowling at Holiday Lanes

Holiday Lanes has been run by one family from the start. Don Coleman founded it, and his daughter Melanie Coleman owns it now. Local reports call it the oldest bowling alley in Louisiana, and they put its opening anywhere from 1957 to 1960; accounts differ. A 2021 anniversary ceremony drew the mayor and the chamber of commerce. Beyond open bowling it has kept leagues, youth programs, glow bowling and tournaments going, and it still runs an arcade and a cafe.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Spring Street Museum — 3.5 mi
  An 1866 bank building downtown that also held a Freedman's Savings and Trust branch in 1870, now a free LSUS-run museum with a Victorian parlor and the original vault.
• Shreveport Municipal Auditorium — 3.8 mi
  The Art Deco hall of 1929 where the Louisiana Hayride went out over KWKH from 1948 to 1960 and where Elvis Presley first played Shreveport on October 16, 1954.
• Shreveport Water Works Museum — 3.9 mi
  An 1887 brick pumping station on McNeill Street where Worthington steam pumps ran until 1980, now a free museum and a National Historic Landmark.
• R. W. Norton Art Gallery — 5.4 mi
  A free art museum and 40 acres of azalea gardens in Shreveport, founded in 1946 on Rodessa oil money, with Remington and Russell, an Audubon folio and no photography allowed.

More markers nearby

• 1st CEVG Combat Skyspot Memorial — 0.7 mi
• Linebacker II (The Christmas Bombings) — 0.8 mi
• "Hell's Angels" — 1.0 mi
• Old Bossier Municipal Building — 2.5 mi