In Metairie, hundreds of mostly retired residents are keeping the once-ubiquitous game of bridge alive. The Louisiana Bridge Association, founded in 1941, hosts multiple weekly games at its ...

Above: At the height of its popularity, bridge was played at business and academic gatherings and at society functions, including this 1937 game at Pittsburgh’s Loendi Social and Literary Club. Dr.

Some card games still played today are hundreds of years old. Many of these games are so old they started on tiles and blocks of wood rather than paper. Here are several of the oldest card games in ...