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grew up with this building -- Victory
Lanes -- a bowling alley from 1948 until 1968. It sat vacant for
a few months until a friend and I tried to remake it into a concert venue.
We lost out to the pizza parlor intelligencia. That failing (twice), it was transformed into an 80's fern bar/jazz restaurant. Finally, a nightclub chain moved in and the proud old building became a Moose McGillycuddy's -- sans half the tower. Go figure. As you can imagine, nostalgia overcame me . . . I yearned to re-create the neon glory of the old "lanes." Click to see my fuzzy recollections. ©
1999 by Gene Brawn |
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