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Title: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 20, 2005, 04:52:30 AM
My mom used to work at a few centers in the late 60's and early 70's. My father and brother bowled in tourneys all over the place, and I was thinking of some of the centers from glory days past that have closed. Here is a list of some of the ones I remember:

Hart Bowl
Circle Bowl
Jack and Jill Lanes
Expressway Lanes
Zangs
Bronco Bowl
Don Carters East
Buckner Bowl or Grove Country (I think this one is closed)
Meadowbrook Lanes (I think this one is closed too)
Cotton Bowling Palace

See if anyone can think of some more.

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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: jkiser01 on August 20, 2005, 02:08:59 PM
Its sad to think, but add Don Carter'w All Star Lanes to that list of closed centers if the college thats bidding on the place gets it.
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If they only made a ball that would carry that da_n 7 pin (and I am right handed!!)

jkiser01
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 20, 2005, 02:10:17 PM
Jim,

It is my understanding that there is a new set of investors looking to keep Don Carters West open.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Juggernaut on August 20, 2005, 02:11:53 PM
I live about 80 miles away, but I know Grove country is closed. I drive by there twice a week on my route.  I miss that place.  Bowled a few touneys there, house had china for a shot.
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: jkiser01 on August 20, 2005, 02:16:29 PM
quote:
Jim,

It is my understanding that there is a new set of investors looking to keep Don Carters West open.
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Tracy


I spoke to someone last week and they told me things are still very much up in the air if DC will be staying open or not. They have lost alot of league bowlers and all of their traveling league teams.
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If they only made a ball that would carry that da_n 7 pin (and I am right handed!!)

jkiser01
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 20, 2005, 02:39:25 PM
Jim,

I know that the conditions were horrible for State. No air conditioning and the snack bar had hardly any food at all.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Smash49 on August 20, 2005, 02:52:30 PM
Valwood
Preston Forest
Irving Lanes
Town North
Great Southwest
Carter Beach
Richland
Forest Park
Berry Bowl

I lived at Hart and Circle!  

A couple Mid Cities and FW one.  Bronco was cool but Forest Park was the most unique.  It was over a big pancake house.  

Smash49
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 20, 2005, 02:57:36 PM
I can't believe I forgot about Valwood. Spent many a nights there. My mom work the counter at Hart and Circle.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 20, 2005, 03:01:10 PM
If I remember correctly, didn't Berry bowl have a tournament that ran on sundays only. I seem to recall a center in Ft. Worth or surrounding area that used to really pull in some big names at the time and I thought it was Berry.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Smash49 on August 20, 2005, 03:15:42 PM
I knew there was some reason I spent every Sunday at Berry as a kid. lol

Smash49
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: agroves on August 21, 2005, 12:10:29 AM
For all you guys in DFW area; I used to bowl at Triangle bowl in Richardson...is that place still open?  My family still lives in the area, off jupiter and campbell I believe.

Andrew
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 21, 2005, 02:13:43 AM
I believe that place is long gone. There used to be a center in Irving called Golden Triangle but I think it has changed it's name. Help me out here Robert.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: agroves on August 21, 2005, 08:31:41 AM
quote:
I believe that place is long gone. There used to be a center in Irving called Golden Triangle but I think it has changed it's name. Help me out here Robert.
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Tracy


Last I heard it changed names....FWIW...it was off central expressway, near a bowling and billards.

Andrew
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Gore in '06!
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Smash49 on August 21, 2005, 09:06:40 AM
The one in Richardson is now AMF Richardson. I used to buy cameras from Bob Tomlinson in the pro shop there.  It was a weird combination of things.  Like to find him again. Triangle Bowl in Irving is still there as AMF Irving under new management.  That is the center where our Pro Shop is located.  Someone told me that Blazer is gone.  That one was close to the B&B that is on Easy St.  The B&B is now split in the warehouse.  One side is Classic Products and the other something else.  

Smash49
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Edited on 8/21/2005 8:59 AM
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: michelle on August 21, 2005, 09:43:13 AM
Of the gone and somewhat fondly remembered, I did well at DC Beach and at Grove Country.  Hart was a house I always seemed to struggle in...so I'm not sure I want to put it in a fondly remembered category

Grove Country was a Ray Charles shot before the concept of the THS was so widely abused...the thing that amazed me was how many people were whining about how flooded they were.  I also remember it as the first place I bowled where you had to have the bar membership since it was in a liquor-controlled area.  Manager comped the membership since I was from out of town...

It would be a shame to see DC West go...they always put on a good tournament.  Granted, the stuff that Jim would run could get hellish hot during September and October on the low end of the house if the AC was even thinking about going on the fritz...
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Smash49 on August 21, 2005, 09:50:28 AM
The ac on the high end of DC West is terrible.  When you start league at 6 the air is on and then they decide it is getting cold outside.  Boom the vents are directly above the back of the approaches and they come on like afterburners.  

I made the mistake of calling DC West the coldest bowling alley I had ever been in.  I thought Susie Minshew was going to slap me silly.

Smash49

Won city at Grove Country with an allergy and one eye swollen shut does that count
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: BrianCRX90 on August 21, 2005, 11:22:01 AM
I hate Cowtown Not only is it in a dump area, it is one of the most distusting places I've ever bowled at. Hurst is dumpy too but it just needs a renovation. Spare Time sucks too.

Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: T Brockette on August 21, 2005, 06:23:09 PM
Isn't Grove Country basically wear bumper bowling started. I remember hearing a story where Kinser started putting some type of floatation devices filled with air in the gutters.
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Tracy
Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: MarvinsSkeleton on August 21, 2005, 07:53:50 PM
Add Wedgewood to the list.  I remember my Dad talking a lot about Richland and Forest Park.

There were a couple more in Mineral Wells that shut down back in the day.  There was a 12 lane alley at Fort Wolters military base that shut down when the base did, and there were at least 2 lanes in the basement of the Baker Hotel which has been shut down for a long while.
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Title: Re: D/FW Members - Closed bowling centers
Post by: Smash49 on August 21, 2005, 09:22:03 PM
That's what I understand.  Kinser is the father of bumper bowling.

Smash49
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