Last Days of Lanes & Games: Photography by Ben Phillippo

Farewell to a Boston-area icon

Ben Phillippo
Aug 24, 2017 · 3 min read

Note from the Editor

While Houseshow is primarily a Chicago-centric magazine, I, founder Katie Ingegneri, am originally from suburban Boston. I met photographer Ben Phillippo when we were in high school, working on my first arts publication — our high school literary journal. Ben is now an established director working with TV shows and music videos in Boston, in addition to teaching at his alma mater Emerson College. This summer, an icon of the area in Cambridge— a bowling alley called Lanes & Games, which greeted generations of suburbanites as we came down the Route 2 highway into the city — closed its doors after decades in that spot, another victim of real estate gentrification.

I really liked Ben’s timeless photos of the final farewell to this landmark on its last day open, which showcase just how little had changed over decades inside, so I wanted to feature them here. You don’t have to know the space to appreciate them — a taste for (somewhat cheesy) vintage aesthetics, or Boston-area movies like Good Will Hunting or The Departed, or even the bowling classic The Big Lebowski, will suffice. RIP to a legend.

— Katie Ingegneri


Learn more about Ben Phillippo at http://benphillippo.com/.


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