Already looking forward to the weekend?  We all know the weekend start Friday right after work. From your Regent Lane Townhome, you can shuffle, walk, Uber or take a bus that runs every seven minutes to the World’s Largest Shuffleboard Club.

Every Friday from 7 pm to 11 pm it is free play; although a $2 donation is suggested.  Experience a new game and maybe a new hobby right in your back yard !

ST. PETERSBURG SHUFFLEBOARD CLUB

If you can get three people together on a topic, you can start an association — or a club. And in January of 1924, that’s what happened.

Shuffleboard had arrived in St. Petersburg in 1923. That year, Connecticut jeweler, Phineas T. Ives, visited St. Petersburg, where shuffleboard had yet to put down roots. He had played the game on the east coast of Florida, enjoyed it, and wanted to play more. He urged the city to build courts in Mirror Lake Park, and that fall two were built, right in front of where the clubhouse stands.

So in 1924 a group of shuffleboard players — six in this case — organized what they called the St. Petersburg Mirror Lake Park Shuffleboard Club, the first strictly shuffleboard club in the world; in time it became the largest club of its kind in the world.

http://www.stpeteshuffle.com/