Hate to see house close, but lane conditions and high scoring are so far down the list of reasons for the decline in bowling that it is not measurable.

Got a house that closed years ago has the lanes for sell. Curious what they are worth, or where you'd find a buyer. I think they are rather cheap since it is being sold by a new property owner renovating the building.

Where in Jax is this? I live in Palm Coast, bowl in St Augustine (only since I work close by), Palm Coast, but love Ormond Lanes

Sorry to here this, Darold. I hate hearing about centers closing, but it's a sad reality all over the country. I lost my true home bowling center all the way back in 1999 because of a similar situation, and now the town I'm in lost one of its centers. The one that I'm currently bowling in could be in jeopardy before too long as well. It's really unfortunate, but I'm not sure what can be done to stop this trend. I can tell you that we spent tons of time trying to hash such things out when I worked for USBC, but there are no easy answers. It's a war with too many fronts, and it's being lost day by day and year by year.

1 recently closed here in Bowling Green KY

I know of 4 centers I used to bowl in that have closed. One is now a church, one a restaurant, one was bulldozed for a parking lot, and the 4th was bulldozed for a Dollar General.

Lot of good memories in 3 of those...

It located on Blanding Blvd near Casset in Jacksonville.  Don't know the exact address.  House is pretty much turnkey.  Well maintained lanes, don't know about the machinery though.

I know someone who somehow managed to keep the machinery for the final 4+ years it was open and he indicated that the machinery, at the time the center closed (Oct 1, 2013), was hanging by the threads, almost literally!  If anyone were to try to reopen that business, just about ALL the machinery would have to be replaced.  I don't know how he managed to keep those pinspotters running at all but he pulled it off ... he also indicated that on the last day of business, lane #1 broke down during the final game of league play and he decided to just sit on the machine (rather than try to repair the problem) and run it manually until the league was done.  Someone else mentioned about lane #11, which apparently had a cracked moving deck so the pinspotting was sometimes shaky at best.  I believe that mechanic got picked up by Potter's House King Pins Lanes a couple weeks after Phoenix Lanes closing.