... to gather a group of like-minded individuals, to create a consortium, if you will, that will purchase the historic Jupiter Lanes bowling alley located at the intersecton of Jupiter Lane and Garland Road in Dallas, refurbish it and open it as the bowling alley to beat all bowling alleys.
Imagine if you will ...
- Leprechauns and other assorted Little People bowl free on Tuesday and St. Patrick's Day
- Wednesday Night Amateur Ventriloquist Show-Down in the White Russian Lounge
- America's Cocktail - always available at Happy Hour Prices
- An Honest-to-God Happy Hour. Every Hour on the Hour.
- Design Your Own Bowling Shirt - visit our pro shop for more details
- My Uncle as the in-the-house house pro
- Birthday Parties - complete with bowling AND pinatas
- the Second Saturday of the Month - the Guerilla Desperados, our in-house Warren Zevon cover band performs for your listening pleasure
- Every 100th bowler gets a free White Russian!
- Strolling minstrels will compose a song about your bowling team - ON THE SPOT and UNREHEARSED
- the return of Cotton, where he belongs - rocking the house and ruling the roost at Jupiter Lanes, or, as it may possibly be renamed "Big Lebowski in Little China (on Jupiter Lane)"
These are just a few ideas. I'm spit-balling here.
Do you have the guts, the chutzphah and, yes, let's go ahead and say it, the balls to embrace an endeavor as fantastic, awesome and, yes, let's go ahead and say it, genius as this one?
If so, let's do lunch. You bring the lunch.
No, seriously. We should talk. Contact me h.jebens at gmail.com
I am serious. At least as serious as a heart attack. Or a 7-10 split.
Another idea - sell shares of ownership to anyone who wants to buy one and operate the place as the first co-operatively owned bowling alley. on the planet. Or at least in Dallas.
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Did I tell you that I am moving from my Bishop Arts pad to a house on North Waverly (about two miles west)? And did I tell you that my neighbors call themselves "The Waverlys" and have a logo with a '50s-inspired illustration of a well-groomed mom, pop, and two kids (because there is no such family on North Waverly)? And that even though I don't move for another month, I have a new blue-with-black-trim bowling shirt with the Waverlys logo on it - as do all my soon-to-be neighbors? I have informed them of this opportunity and hope they will invest in it (as we are still chagrined by the closure of our own neighborhood lanes at the Bronco Bowl). It could be a kind of lowbrow country club. And I need a place to buy Bud Light in a bowling pin-shaped bottle.
p.s. I also used to live in the vicinity of and regularly bowled at Hollywood Star Lanes (where Big Lebowski was filmed) -- 'til the week it went out of business. Don't allow Jupiter Lanes to suffer the same fate!
Cotton Schwab! Bring back Jupiter!
How does Ali Baba sound? Just name the date and time....
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