Article: Bowled over Lucky Strike has ball with upscale take on bowling.(Time Out!)

Byline: Greg Walker Beep Contributing Writer

Lucky Strike Lanes

Where: 100 Yorktown, Lombard

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., seven days a week

Rates: (per game after 9 p.m.): Sunday-Thursday: $5.95; Friday- Saturday: $6.95; shoes: $3.95

Web: bowlluckystrike.com

When thinking about bowling alleys, there's no escaping the hobby's obvious instant illusions: kitschy shirts, fried food, outdated scoring mechanisms (yeah, we're scared of the paper-pencil method, too) cheap beer, greasy bowling balls and those ever- mysterious anti-fungus shoe aerosols. It's kind of sentimental, kind of trendy and, in case of the rented-shoe policy, kind of gross.

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