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Retro and active.(News, Notes & Quotes)
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Bowling Digest
- Article date:
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December 22, 2004
- Author:
- Archibald, John J.
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A NOT-SO-CRAZY GUY in St. Louis opened an eight-lane bowling center last December. Joe Edwards designed and built Pin-Up Bowl, "the world's first bowling/martini lounge," and the in-crowd is renting shoes and knocking down pins.
The tenpin center, minuscule and uneconomical by present-day standards, is part of a booming business/entertainment area in University City, making it one of just two commercial bowling establishments in St. Louis.
"We're very glad we got into the bowling business," says Edwards, who owns a thriving restaurant, Blueberry Hill, in U. City, and has put his money where his mouth is as he promotes his neighborhood. Conde Nast Traveller magazine ...