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sevenpin63

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Midwest gathering
« on: August 22, 2011, 12:36:41 PM »
I know Monster, and Impending Doom, and myself were talking about a Midwest gathering in the Chicago land area. Or just to get together and bowl some games and meet new people, and drink some beer.
 
Where would a good place to do this, any ideas? I know leagues are starting up and it would be hard to get a block of lanes for a weekend night, I think? Maybe a in the day time would be better.
 
And how would you go about putting something like this together.
 
Or how many people would be interested?
 
Just floating this out there to see the interest.


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Edited by sevenpin63 on 8/23/2011 at 1:26 PM
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JOE FALCO

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #31 on: August 24, 2011, 11:42:00 AM »

You guys make this Chicago sound like a GREAT place .. curious to know if there is a CASINO near by .. if I take my wife I can drop her there while I bowl .. that will keep her busy

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #32 on: August 24, 2011, 11:43:38 AM »
Yes there is,  I believe it's the worlds largest, or is it newest...The Rivers...Pretty sure it's in that area...
Pike and Sevinpin would know...
 
JOE FALCO wrote on 8/24/2011 11:42 AM:

You guys make this Chicago sound like a GREAT place .. curious to know if there is a CASINO near by .. if I take my wife I can drop her there while I bowl .. that will keep her busy



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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #33 on: August 24, 2011, 11:46:27 AM »
Joe... These places are in the western subs of that Toxic waste dump known as Chicago...
 
You don't want to go there...Unless you want to make the 4:30 news...
 
Oh ya, the lake front is beautiful...
 
You just need to get there in an A TANK...
 
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JOE FALCO wrote on 8/24/2011 11:42 AM:

You guys make this Chicago sound like a GREAT place .. curious to know if there is a CASINO near by .. if I take my wife I can drop her there while I bowl .. that will keep her busy



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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2011, 11:47:10 AM »
Also Grand Victoria in Elgin you can drop my wife off with her.


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230-n-up-or-bust

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2011, 11:50:11 AM »
You could always try the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells, too.  Might be a little too much North for some of you but it's near a casino (Ho-Chunk), has a 24 lane facility, and a waterpark for the younger ones.  Besides, at any given time, there's more Illinois plates in the Dells than any other state...lol.

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #36 on: August 24, 2011, 12:00:57 PM »
Dells are nice,  bout 4 hours or so from Metro area...
 
Of course one can go to Hawaii for less...
 
That's the birth place of Obama  you know...
230-n-up-or-bust wrote on 8/24/2011 11:50 AM:You could always try the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells, too.  Might be a little too much North for some of you but it's near a casino (Ho-Chunk), has a 24 lane facility, and a waterpark for the younger ones.  Besides, at any given time, there's more Illinois plates in the Dells than any other state...lol.

Help control the population of Avenging Unicorns. Arm yourselves accordingly. 

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #37 on: August 24, 2011, 12:37:15 PM »
John means the arm pit of Wisconsin.  Good Cheeseheads wouldn't be caught there. 
 
230-n-up-or-bust wrote on 8/24/2011 11:50 AM:You could always try the Kalahari in Wisconsin Dells, too.  Might be a little too much North for some of you but it's near a casino (Ho-Chunk), has a 24 lane facility, and a waterpark for the younger ones.  Besides, at any given time, there's more Illinois plates in the Dells than any other state...lol.

Help control the population of Avenging Unicorns. Arm yourselves accordingly. 

"I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."-Nick Faldo
"I'm as frustrated as a mosquito in a mannequin factory."-Larry The Cable Guy 
 
Edited by 230-n-up-or-bust on 8/24/2011 at 11:53 AM


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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #38 on: August 24, 2011, 01:49:06 PM »
Well so far I count roughly about 15 people that are willing to go.
 
So I will head out to St. Charles Bowl and Bowling Green this Saturday, to see if I can work something out with them. Try to make it for a month later or so to give everybody some notice, I will see when I talk to them.
 
Kind of hard for the next few days as I will have to work from 2AM until 2PM. Good overtime but the hours suck.


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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #39 on: August 24, 2011, 02:30:02 PM »
Scott, trust me, Wisconsin Dells has nothing to be ashamed when compared to Reno.

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #40 on: August 25, 2011, 05:40:26 AM »
Looking forward to this.  Since our benefit was delayed/postponed til further date.. This should be pretty fun. 

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #41 on: August 25, 2011, 06:14:45 AM »
You might want to check with Fox Bowl. I know that bgsc won't put out anything special for us, and not sure about St chuck. They were running the kegel patterns this summer, so if we want something other than the the, you should check with either fox or stc.

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sevenpin63

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #42 on: August 25, 2011, 01:06:26 PM »
We will see, as I do know some people that work at Bowling Green. But if I don't get satisfactory answers I will check elsewhere.
 
Impending Doom wrote on 8/25/2011 6:14 AM:You might want to check with Fox Bowl. I know that bgsc won't put out anything special for us, and not sure about St chuck. They were running the kegel patterns this summer, so if we want something other than the the, you should check with either fox or stc.

The sky is falling
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sevenpin63

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #43 on: August 25, 2011, 04:01:03 PM »
The nearest casino around us out here in SUNNY KANE Co. is Grand Victoria in Elgin.
That new casino is in Des Plains, not to far from O'Hare Airport.
jls wrote on 8/24/2011 11:43 AM:
Yes there is,  I believe it's the worlds largest, or is it newest...The Rivers...Pretty sure it's in that area...
Pike and Sevinpin would know...
 
JOE FALCO wrote on 8/24/2011 11:42 AM:

You guys make this Chicago sound like a GREAT place .. curious to know if there is a CASINO near by .. if I take my wife I can drop her there while I bowl .. that will keep her busy



jls 


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JOE FALCO

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #44 on: August 25, 2011, 04:30:21 PM »

Sorry members .. I just checked flight out to Chicago .. lowest I could find for my wife and I was about $550 from RDU .. I'd like to be there but that's a little steep just to get there .. before I go to far with this .. I have to back out .. sorry .. still wish you luck .. sure would have liked to meet up with Jls ..

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Re: Midwest gathering
« Reply #45 on: August 25, 2011, 07:55:29 PM »

 What?  No love for a Sevenpin, impending doom or a Monster Pike?
JOE FALCO wrote on 8/25/2011 4:30 PM:

Sorry members .. I just checked flight out to Chicago .. lowest I could find for my wife and I was about $550 from RDU .. I'd like to be there but that's a little steep just to get there .. before I go to far with this .. I have to back out .. sorry .. still wish you luck .. sure would have liked to meet up with Jls ..



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