American Darts Blog

I found the American style Troy boards. A guy named George Haines makes them for $70.00 plus $12.00 shipping. You can email him at vipdarts9@vipid.com Hope this helps.

hey albany..come up 50 miles to glens falls…stop in any of four or six bars..and we’ll play a game of darts with the board you remember..outside cork and all.electronics are out and the old leagues are back in. we don’t call ‘em troy boards but three feather darts instead of four are called troy darts by us.try devines billiards on the boulevard, queensbury ny for the equipment .

I am no expert but form what I do remember the original boards were made by the Toughey (sic) pronounced Too-ee family in Troy NY. At some point in time the business and boards concept was sold to the Casella (sic) family and took on the name Al’s American Dart Board” again not sure about the spelling but they operated out of Waterford, NY and eventually then sold to the a guy in Waterford who’s name I cannot recall. I actualy negotiated the purchase of his business at one point only to have him back out rather abruptly when I started asking questions about previous sales and marketing success, etc… (Hmmm makes you wonder doenst it? In any event, at last word he was semi-retired and only making them once or maybe twice a year, and he charges outrageous prices for the “hard to get” board. Well that strategy may have backfired on him as there is NOT now nor never was a patent issued on the board. It does use the standard “English” number system which ahs been around since time can remember so there was never anything new to patent. He added the outside cork when he bought the business so it had a “UNIQUE” look to it and then side stepped the whole patent issue by declaring a Trademark with the outside cork. Again, last knowledge was that he let the trademark expire and a couple different people are now making the knock-off’s in the area. Look around adn I am sure you will find them. I don’t know the quality of those knock=offs but have to say the guy in Waterford did make a very good quality board with years of experience doing it! he actualy had a very well oiled if not primitive shop set up for the sole purpose of putting out the boards. Good luck! Once you play one of these boards you will NEVER want to go back to those carboard whatever ya call-it’s again!

I was very surprised to find out that these boards were a local thing. I was born & raised in Rensselaer, NY and, had a “Troy board” given to me as a birthday present about 25 years ago. It was purchased at Broadway Sporting Goods in downtown Albany. These boards are what I remember from the local bars.
Mine (and I’m assuming they all are) is a 2 sided board with one outside cork (to the right of the 6), though I swear I remember seeing a bar board with 2 outside corks (left & right). Anybody rember that? One side of mine is used but still usable, and the other has about 12 dart holes in it. I now live in Colorado and haven’t used it in over 5 years. Glad I can still get the wooden darts cause I want to set it up again.

I lived and grew up in Waterford NY and belonged to the Fire Company which was across the street from Al Cassella’s shop watching him build these boards from raw lumber was amazing. The time and care, and personal touches were fantastic.
I have bee looking for a dart board like that and the closest I’ve come is AmazingDarts.com. They were the best we had them in all the firehouses in Waterford. He even made the 3 and 4 feather dart from the steel mold to the glue on the feathers