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TEXAS STATION SLATED FOR DEMOLITION
The inventory of lanes in Las Vegas has been down by 60 ever since March 2020 when Red Rock Resorts shuttered its Texas Station casino and two other properties. Those three resorts — Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson being the other two — never reopened, and now it has been announced that they never will. […]
ROGER DALKIN IS NAMED NEW E.D. OF BCA OF WISCONSIN
One of the most experienced executives in the bowling business, Roger Dalkin, has been named Executive Director of the Bowling Centers Association of Wisconsin. The appointment became official on Aug. 1. Dalkin had been serving as BCAW’s program director under long-time E.D. Yvonne Bennett, who retired last year. A national search for a successor to […]
EMMA McCRARY RECEIVES 2022 FREWING SCHOLARSHIP
Emma McCrary, who literally grew up in her parents’ bowling center — Paoli Rock-N-Bowl in Paoli, Ind. — is the 2022 recipient of youth bowling’s most lucrative honor, the $25,000 Daroll and Dee Frewing Scholarship. McCrary follows in the footsteps of Andrew Amore of Ohio, the scholarship’s first recipient in 2020, and Avery Schenk of […]
TIERNEY RECEIVES FIRST MUSEUM AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION
The International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame has created of a new award to recognize an individual, institution or organization that recently made an extraordinary contribution to the Hall of Fame. The first recipient is John Tierney, who received his award at Bowl Expo. Tierney, a retired California bowling center proprietor, donated more than […]
U.S. OPEN SITES SET THROUGH 2025
The USBC and BPAA have reached location agreements for the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions of the U.S. Open and U.S. Women’s Open. The U.S. Open will be heading back to Woodland Bowl in Indianapolis all three years, while the U.S. Women’s Open will be held at ABC Gates Bowl in Rochester, N.Y., in 2023 […]
STRONG FIRST QUARTER FOR DAVE & BUSTER’S
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. reported outstanding results for the first quarter of 2022, despite steadily increasing inflation. Revenue increased to a record $451.1 million compared with $265.3 million in the first quarter of 2021 and $363.6 million in the first quarter of 2019. Total comparable sales increased 10.9% compared with the same period in 2019. “We set records […]
NATIONAL BOWLING DAY TO BE CELEBRATED ON ‘FOX & FRIENDS’
National Bowling Day is back in 2022, and it will be celebrated on Saturday, Aug. 13. The goal of the Strike Ten Entertainment initiative: Motivate consumers to visit bowling centers just ahead of the fall league season start. The consumer-facing Go Bowling brand will have representatives from the BPAA and Bowlers to Veterans Link on […]
NEW AGREEMENT TO HELP CENTERS INCREASE F&B SALES
Creative Realities Inc., a leading provider of digital signage solutions, and Strike Ten Entertainment have announced a marketing partnership designed to help bowling centers grow their revenues by using digital signage to transform the food-and-beverage experience. The marketing partnership provides a robust, continuous platform for Creative Realities to showcase how its offering can help revolutionize the […]
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