nooooooooo!!

The whole staff is being let go and they are re-doing the lanes...

Last day of real bowling Dec 20th. Heard here tonight from the infamous bartender of the lanes...have your beer slid to you while you still can

10/10/2008 9:36:53 PM

meh.

i like western lanes and all, but some change was necessary probably.

10/10/2008 9:38:17 PM

this is the worst fucking news ever

seriously

10/10/2008 9:38:21 PM

bowling is like an all day music festival... its fun for a while but then you just want it to be over with

10/10/2008 9:38:49 PM

is this the place on hillsborough?

10/10/2008 9:40:53 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/1045558.html

10/10/2008 9:42:13 PM

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" i like western lanes and all, but some change was necessary probably."

10/10/2008 9:42:21 PM

took a bowling class there freshman year. And the lanes there sucked.

10/10/2008 9:42:30 PM

ive never been there and i still probably will never go

10/10/2008 9:42:37 PM

blasphemy!

10/10/2008 9:43:29 PM

i love to bowl and yes, their lanes suck

but with that said, its like stepping into a time machine when you walk into that place

and it fucking rules

10/10/2008 9:43:49 PM

yea i dont really have a lot of appreciation for that kind of bowling alley

10/10/2008 9:44:52 PM

^^ exactly.

i love it.

10/10/2008 9:45:47 PM

^ oh shit, I bet someone will be taking pictures there soon

10/10/2008 9:47:07 PM

... hmmm, i like that idear.

10/10/2008 9:49:34 PM

i'll totally take them

10/10/2008 9:53:16 PM

i bet that'd be a good place for some pictures.

10/10/2008 9:57:48 PM

^ especially ironic ones

10/10/2008 9:59:13 PM

well we have now until december 20th, and i'll totally be in town then for christmas

10/10/2008 9:59:53 PM

NAW NASTY NATE THAT'S MY BITCH




















SON.

10/10/2008 10:01:45 PM

I've heard there were homeless people living in the backrooms of Western.

10/10/2008 10:07:44 PM

10/10/2008 10:08:21 PM

I remember getting a turkey there, but still only getting like 80 points.

10/10/2008 10:09:27 PM

Quote :

"Fenner laughs recalling a chesty patron who laid her anatomy on the counter and demanded a beer in-between. Fenner threw a bull's-eye, and suddenly everyone else in the diner wanted to try."

10/10/2008 10:13:28 PM

I hope they don't close the cafeteria inside the bowling alley. Best meat loaf ever!

10/10/2008 10:18:01 PM

lol.

actually that meat loaf was pretty dank.

10/10/2008 10:18:35 PM

damn



i'm going to go one last time before it closes.

10/10/2008 10:20:34 PM

diggity dank?

10/10/2008 10:21:01 PM

man, i used to love eating lunch there back in the day.

best damn BLT and good fries for $4.75.

10/10/2008 10:21:23 PM

man, i used to love eating lunch there back in the day.

best damn BLT and good fries for $4.75.

10/10/2008 10:21:23 PM

nice double.

you can get a BLT and fries at cookout for less though...

10/10/2008 10:22:26 PM

10/10/2008 10:23:17 PM

They had awesome biscuits there.

I used to get a buttered biscuit there almost every morning for breakfast before class.

10/10/2008 10:25:14 PM

^^ the second and last pics are pretty cool

[Edited on October 10, 2008 at 10:25 PM. Reason : d]

10/10/2008 10:25:19 PM

i like the last picture!

10/10/2008 10:26:48 PM

I used to go there with my grandfather when I was little.

10/10/2008 10:27:40 PM

Quote :

"^^ the second and last pics are pretty cool"

Quote :

"i like the last picture!"

Thank you

10/10/2008 10:29:43 PM

I think I just figured out that I am too far away from the stuff I take pictures of... need to zoom in on that shit

10/10/2008 10:29:50 PM

Here are the same photos in b&w. I didn't just change them to b&w though, I dropped channels until I had something I liked.

http://tinyurl.com/3hhoog

Some are better, others are meh.

I love Western Lanes

10/10/2008 10:43:03 PM

i like that place too.

some of those are cooler in b&w

10/10/2008 10:45:28 PM

I too umm, drop some channels... yeah, thats what I do

10/10/2008 10:49:22 PM

^
HAHAHA ... yeah

10/10/2008 10:52:19 PM

back in the day they had a shrimp lunch special for like $5.00 on fridays.

ah, nostalgia.

10/11/2008 12:27:18 AM

10/11/2008 12:43:57 AM

yea, the food at the cafeteria is awesome. I need to go there one last time before it closes.

10/11/2008 7:06:22 AM

Thanks to the OP for getting this info out.

At least now I know to get over there and bowl a few games and get some food before December 20th.

I'm really going to miss that bowling alley being the way it is now.

10/11/2008 7:40:25 AM

fuckz...

10/11/2008 8:02:49 AM

TWW bowling night!

10/11/2008 8:37:18 AM

i drink your milkshake?

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

10/11/2008 9:22:55 AM

Quote :

"have your beer slid to you while you still can "

10/11/2008 11:01:13 AM