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Article: New bowling center brings 32 lanes
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- The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Article date:
- November 10, 1999
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Bowling
By STEVE THOMPSON
The Capital-Journal
Bowling is a game of numbers, from the score sheet to the spread
sheet, and the numbers just got worse for Topeka's four existing
bowling centers.
Next summer, when the new West Ridge Lanes and Family Fun Center
adds 32 lanes to the city's current total of 120, it could intensify
the fight for survival that exists locally, as well as nationally.
"It's not gonna be good for us, and it's not gonna to be good for
anybody," said Rod Paletta, a lifelong Topeka bowler who has managed
locally owned Southwest Bowl for the past 13 years. "Somebody's gonna
get hurt, or everybody's gonna get hurt."
Both Paletta and Rex Haney, who owns and operates Topeka's ...