# If you live in Washington DC ...., (Entertainment Issue) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 23, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493 "2005-11-23T22:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/1 "2005-11-23T22:23:37Z")
Where would you go for - Go Kart (fast) ? - Pool / Billard ? - Paintball ? - Gun Range ? - Bowling ? and any suggestions for a group of four who can not drink, yet. I ask for a few friends of mine in D.C. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/2 "2005-11-23T22:26:11Z")
Are you looking for places to have public sex? šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/3 "2005-11-23T22:27:14Z")
Opps Can mod change the title from ā€œloveā€ to ā€œliveā€, PLEASE. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/4 "2005-11-23T22:33:08Z")
Most of the Pool halls I knowā€“Atomic, Bedrock, and Buffaloā€“serve alcohol and check IDā€™s but some of them may have provisions for underage patrons to play w/o drinking. You should call them up. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/5 "2005-11-23T22:40:17Z")
> [@Aquafina](#): > > Opps > > Can mod change the title from ā€œloveā€ to ā€œliveā€, PLEASE. :smack: Noā€¦itā€™s more fun this way. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2005, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/6 "2005-11-23T23:51:06Z")
> [@Aquafina](#): > > Opps > > Can mod change the title from ā€œloveā€ to ā€œliveā€, PLEASE. :smack: As you wish. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/7 "2005-11-24T00:03:27Z")
- Go Kart (fast) ? No clue. - Pool / Billard ? Buffalo Billiards, but I think you have to be 21. - Paintball ? [http://www.hogback.net/](http://www.hogback.net/) Itā€™s a ways out in Virginia. - Gun Range ? None in DC itself. Thereā€™s no guns allowed here. - Bowling ? Thereā€™s a place in Arlington, just off of Glebe Road. ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/8 "2005-11-24T00:21:57Z")
[Bowling - Strike Bethesda](http://www.strikebethesda.com/), Gun Range - [here](http://www.packing.org/range/virginia/) are some gun ranges ā€“ i reccomend Clark Brosā€¦ maybe 45 mins from the Beltway ā€“ If you are WAY underage tho ā€œsonā€ there is no gun range that will allow you in w/o an adult. There are Chamion Billiards Chain in MontCo that you can play pool and they wonā€™t kick you out if you canā€™t drink. The only Go-Kart place i know is in Ocean City [Reviews of MDā€™s Paintball feilds](http://www.pbreview.com/fields/22/) as you know many of these arenā€™t in the DC area ā€“ Laurel, Bowie are, Frederick is (again) about 1/2 from the Beltway ---
**Author:** ![Aquafina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@Aquafina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aquafina)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/9 "2005-11-24T03:31:47Z")
**Jimmy** , do you know whether those paintball fields let people to rent equipments ? They are all 18+, some 19+, is it good enough for the Gun Range people ? ---
**Author:** ![jimmmy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/10 "2005-11-24T04:12:12Z")
Most let you ā€“ in fact almost all do-- just call ahead 18 is almost always OK at a range in my experience ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/11 "2005-11-24T06:54:14Z")
> [@Larry Borgia](#): > > Most of the Pool halls I knowā€“Atomic, Bedrock, and Buffaloā€“serve alcohol and check IDā€™s but some of them may have provisions for underage patrons to play w/o drinking. You should call them up. I know of a pool hall in Springfield that doesnā€™t card until, I think, 6pm. They allow everyone before that time and nobody under 21 after. Iā€™m not sure of the name but itā€™s in Springfield Plaza on Franconia Road just west of 395. > [@Ravenman](#): > > - Bowling ? > > Thereā€™s a place in Arlington, just off of Glebe Road. I believe the one youā€™re thinking of is now a Goldā€™s Gym. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/12 "2005-11-24T14:32:52Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > I believe the one youā€™re thinking of is now a Goldā€™s Gym. :rolleyes: Christ. And a Starbucks, too, right? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/13 "2005-11-24T17:13:54Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > And a Starbucks, too, right? Actually, I donā€™t recall seeing one. The Giant there doubled its size by taking over the drugstore next door, though. Itā€™s now almost as big as the one in Baileyā€™s. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-live-in-washington-dc-entertainment-issue/332493/14 "2005-11-25T20:16:42Z")
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