Article: Boweled over. (bowling alleys)

THERE can hardly be a marketing man in the leisure business who has not wrestled with some version of the problem. How do you revamp the fashions of the 1960s for the consumers of the 1990s?

The case for doing so is simple. Balding boppers like to think they are still wild at heart. The case against is that they are not quite as wild as all that-certainly not wild enough to risk distressing their wives, debauching their children or dislodging their toupes. They want to return to the 1960s: but to a sanitised version, sleeze-free and family-friendly. Square this circle to win a fortune.

The circle may just have been squared. A clutch of leisure firms ...

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