Bowling: the Black Cat, six lanes on Arch Street

AS OF NOVEMBER 2026 · the town's one standing games house; its early course a named gap

The town's bowling record is one small house, still standing: the Black Cat — Black Cat Lanes, with Meyers' Ice Cream — at 112 South Arch Street, a family-owned house of six lanes by its own listing (a reviewer's count says five; the house's own directory entry governs, and the difference prints), with an arcade and a kitchen, standing behind the fire station the town's visitors are directed by. Bowling is the one league sport the town has housed continuously into the present within its own limits: the Discover New Carlisle description the Businesses leg carries mentions "a bowling alley" among the downtown's furniture without naming it, and the name, the address and the present state are this section's contribution. The house's own history — its opening, its builders, its league champions across the decades — does not stand in the record reached and is a named gap (GAP-NC5-SPO-4), its settlers the town press runs, the society's collections and the house's own records. What prints is the standing fact, dated: in November 2026 the town still bowls at 112 South Arch Street.

Sources:

1. Black Cat Lanes, the house's own site and directory listings (blackcatlanes.com), read November 2026 — 112 South Arch Street; six lanes; the ice-cream and arcade combination; family ownership as the listings describe it.
2. Review record (one reviewer's five-lane count printed against the house's six).
3. The Businesses leg of this build (the Discover New Carlisle description, "a bowling alley," unnamed) — pointer.