We’re actually getting two bowling entertainment centers.
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We’re actually getting two bowling entertainment centers.
https://www.rustonleader.com/node/84126
Does Tech still have its bowling alley under the bookstore? Or have they built a new one over by the Lambright Center?
I don’t know about the old one, but the new lanes at the Lambrighth are nice.
The old one below the bookstore was only about 8 or ten lanes. I bowled a few frames there. I thought they had built a new one at Lambright.
Amos, you graduated the same year as me - 1969. You'r talking about the same one I am. The bowling alley was under the bookstore across from Keeny Hall. You went down some steps between the student center and bookstore. I am not talking about the original bookstore which was on the front of the Student Center Building facing Tolliver.
The only thing across from Bogard was the old Engineering Annex and the new EE building (Neithkin). I know they remodeled the bookstore sometime in the 1980's and it was temporarily in the library. They may have removed the bowling alley then.
The only bowling alley on campus is in Lambright. The bookstore space is now general purpose, I know the BCM held events there before they finished their new building during my tenure.
I guessed they would close it. It was pretty small.
The area under the bookstore is in complete shambles. Really sad to see a nice space go to complete waste.
In the early 90s it was a nice place to relax between classes, study, meet up with friends, bowl...heck, they had pool tables, air hockey, etc down there as well.
Nope...there was a stand-alone, private bowling alley down the street from Bogard. It was not across the street, but about a block away. I recall when they moved the bookstore from the Tonk and built it with the bowling alley below it. I took bowling as a PE class in 1965. It was at the one down the street, not at the bookstore bowling alley. It closed after the Tech bowling center was built for obvious reasons.
I started Tech Sept. 1964 and graduated March 1969. I stretched it as long as I could because I knew Uncle Sam was waiting for me. Sure enough, I got my draft notice 3 months after I graduated.