Let’s say you accidentally create a game. Let’s say you and your friends fall in love with it and share it with others. Let’s say you start a small business that grows beyond your imagination. That would be Hamtramck’s Fowling Warehouse.
Since the 20-lane, 34,000-square foot space officially opened last December, hundreds of people have streamed through its doors to play this unconventional game.
“It’s not football. It’s not bowling. It has aspects of lots of different games, and that’s why people like it,” said owner Chris Hutt, a former commercial brick supplier whose wife Noni recently left her job as a beauty supply retail store manager to work at the Fowling Warehouse full time.
“The most common sentence heard in here is, ‘This is harder to do than it looks.’ We should paint it on one of the walls,” Hutt said. “The bottom line is it’s you versus the pins.”
“Our most important policy is the first one on our door: No knuckleheads,” Hutt said. “We don’t care where you’re from. We don’t care who you are. You’ve got to be nice and you’re welcome here.”