Darts: "Flying Back Into the Spotlight
After a decade of decline, darts are once again popular.
By John Teschner
August 17, 2006
Where to Play
Visit www.wadadarts.org to learn a lot more about the local darts scene.
Walter Humm remembers when the best dart tossers in the world played in Alexandria. He has owned Pepi’s Pizza Box for 33 years, and said the darts craze began in 1975 or 1976 at the old Pizza Box on Jordan Street. For the next 20 years, the Pizza Box was packed with players. At one point, four of its regulars were ranked in the top 50 in the world. At its weekly luck of the draw tournament, 40 or 50 people might show up. The Pizza Box fielded six or seven darts teams.
But in the past decade, the popularity of darts in Alexandria declined. Until six months ago, the Pizza Box’s dartboards hung forgotten on the wall."
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