anybody know anything about greenbrae lanes in sparks, nv?  this is where the sp tournament is moving to in 2006 after many years at the high sierra in reno.  i know quite a few bowlers who are sad to be leaving, but are willing to give the new place a try.  i just hope that a tournament that has had a long history is not making a mistake.

Why's it moving???


Greenbrae Lanes is on Pyramid Way in Sparks. Used to have my office right across the street from there. I went to High Sierra to practice. Nuff said???

Anyway - it used to be owned by Micky Archaletto - he passed away a few years ago, and his wife took it over. I have heard it has gotten better, but it would have to go a LONG way towards the road to improvement before I'd bowl there. It's the only house where I have deliberately walked out of a tournament because of the equipment. Singles and Doubles for Women's city tournament was there one year, and I walked out rather than bowl singles (I completed doubles). They even threatened in public to pull my card - but in private, all the officials said they admired my guts!

Too bad. SP and Town & Country (now High Sierra) go back a LONG time.
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I think Starlight where i heard they use to hold it at is much nicer.

Bowling the 40 Framer and Bowlers Journal when the ABC National was in Town was great.

I hope they would bring the SP Tournament back there one day.
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Hey guys, how far is Greenbrae lanes from John Ascuagas Nugget?

Thanks, Ramtart
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Cool. I'm glad it's coming back. It's a great location - it was just such a dump I wouldn't even go in there. Obviously, that's been fixed!
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IIRC, the reason that the SP went to High Sierra from Starlite was that the latter had just been purchased by AMF, and the new management at Starlite had told Russ that they were no longer interested in hosting the event.

However, one lingering issue that Russ has had with running the tournament at High Sierra over the past several years has been that center is smaller (24 lanes as opposed to 32 at Starlite), which meant that they had to add squads (including a few on Friday night) to accommodate the same number of bowlers.  Not only did this mean that Russ and Liz had to be at the bowl on Fridays as well as over the weekend, but a number of bowlers weren't happy at having to bowl events on Friday night.
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