Holler House Tavrn
2042 W Lincoln Ave, Milwaukee, WI, 53215
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Address :
2042 W Lincoln Ave
Milwaukee, WI, 53215 - Phone (414) 647-9284
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Specialities
- Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Bike Parking : No
Good for Groups : Yes
Good For Dancing : Yes
Alcohol : Full Bar
Happy Hour : Yes
Outdoor Seating : No
Has TV : Yes
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Mike P.
I try to take out of town guests to quirky Milwaukee spots. I found Holler House on Yelp a few years ago and it was loaded in my bookmarks waiting for the right guests to make a visit. My dad and brother visited and we went to Holler House which is the oldest certified bowling alley in the United States. There are two lanes. Two lanes that are far from flat. The pins are set manually by a neighborhood kid. The shoes are basically in a huge mismatched stinky pile under the stair well. You keep score by hand. There are signatures covering a cinder block wall from years of bowlers before you. It's quirky. It's Old School Milwaukee. It's perfect. TIP: CALL AHEAD. If there isn't much business in the bar the owner may not be open. She also prefers at least four bowlers and that you bowl a few games to make enough to pay the pin boy(s). Marcy Skowronski, who owns and runs the tavern, is an entertaining character who also happens to make a mean Old Fashioned. UNRELATED juvenile crank phone call I made as a kid: I called a bowling alley and asked if they had fifteen pound balls. When the poor guy on the end said of course. I said "well isn't kind of hard to walk around?". I'm terrible. (This was before the days of caller I.D.)
(4)Nathaniel F.
While Ubering. I dropped my clients of at the holler house and having heard about this place I took 15 minutes off and went inside to see what was up; and it was glorious. The tavern is simple and located in a Polish flat on 21st and Lincoln. Inside it is decked out with polish flags just like you would expect but the real jewel is downstairs where the oldest bowling alley in North America is. I loved the fact that owner gave me a tour even though I was not a paying customer. I will start suggesting this place to all my customers.
(5)Erika G.
This place is classic South Side Milwaukee. The oldest bowling alley in the US. Wood bar with tin ceiling. In the back is a complete kitchen, and probably a full apartment owned by the owners - who still live upstairs. I'd not been here since 1981, so when I have someone who is a new audience, time to go back! Popped in here last night, and it hadn't changed. Lotta Polish stuff (we are on 21st and Lincoln, don'cha know) and memorabilia on the walls. No tap beer, Schliz comes in bottles! Women's bras hang from the ceiling - what? I think that fad has passed . . . but apparently not here on Milwaukee's wacky South side!
(4)Lauren H.
Holler House could be a great time. It could be charming. It could have great vintage appeal. Sadly, it's not living up to its potential whatsoever. My friends and I went for a birthday party and made bowling reservations for 7:00. The owner didn't call her human pinsetters until we arrived, so we didn't actually bowl until 8:00. Meh, okay fine, we sat and drank a few beers. No big deal. When the pinsetters did arrive (in pajama pants -- awkward?), it was clear they were drunk and none too pleased about being called into work. That too, we tried to forgive and laugh off. But throughout our game, they drank alcohol, smoked cigarettes, which is not only illegal, but also completely rude since they were in the presence of two pregnant women and a three-year old child, and one pinsetter actually took his shirt off. Classy. Downstairs, the setup has the potential for a charming, vintage night of bowling, but not until they get someone in there to clean it up. Tattered and torn bowling shoes were scattered on the floor along with playing cards. There were only three chairs for the non-bowlers to sit in while it wasn't their turn. Both bathrooms need to be completely gutted to be even remotely sanitary. And it would be nice if they kept their storage closets closed, so customers didn't have to see such a disarray of bowling balls and Miller Lite boxes. Oh yeah, their bowling balls were greasy too. Ick. Despite the mess, we made our own fun, and would've even come back had it not been for the fiasco that ensued before we left. Bowling costs $4 per person, per game. When I handed the owner a $5 bill, she gave me a cold stare, rolled her eyes and said "That's it? Most people give the pinsetters AT LEAST a $3 tip." The rest of our group experienced the same thing as they went to pay. I think we wound up paying over $50 for what should've been a $36 round of bowling. If you want to charge $7 for bowling, then charge $7 for bowling. A $1 tip on a $4 game is a 25% tip, which, in my book, is quite generous for a drunk, shirtless, chain-smoking man who appears to have no education or skills. Holler House, I hope you get your act together because you have the potential to be a gold mine. Have some business sense. Clean up your act, clean up your bar, and please, clean up your manners.
(1)Kyle K.
Best bar the ever happened. Bar none, not even close. How I've been a southside polack my whole life without having had a beer in this last polack refuge on on the southside is just beyond me. Point blank, Holler House is a dive. They have no tap beer, the place is old and kind of smells like your Grandpa's back porch and there are womens garments hanging from the ceiling. I don't care. Marcy is the best. She knows everyone who ever lived in the neighborhood and many of those interred across the street. Better yet, she has nothing but good things to say about them. She reminds me of my great grandma. For the first time EVER, I worried about how a bartender would fare for the rest of the night when I left. She is that sweet. She let us sign the wall in the bowling alley while sipping a Zywiec. We sat and swore at the TV together as the Brewers tried to blow another lead. Seriously, she's on my christmas card list now. Seriously, stop in and see her.
(5)Brian W.
If you want to have fun bowling in Milwaukee, this is where to go. Marcy the owner is a real character, in the best way possible. Make sure you phone ahead, since they use human pinsetters (!) you're going to want to make sure someone's on duty.
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