I went to an alley today I haven't been in years. I wanted to go to it even though it is more expensive per game but it had wood lanes which I like. Turns out the corporation that owned them (Don Carter's) sold it or went under or whatever happened to them and they were literally in the middle of remodeling. In fact they were staining the front counter and circular saws were going off half the time.
Well, I was disappointed that they decided to rip out the wood lanes and approaches and go to synthetics, but these were different. They had rangefinders...something I always wanted to try since I like to use arrows to area, it would be easier to target down lane. Took me some games to get used to but after I figured it out I was dominating. How I wish all houses had these. At my local house it's not a huge deal because there is differential on the synthetic lanes of dark and light colored boards....a few light colored here...then a row of dark...then a row of light. But for houses that have the same colored all the way across, that makes it more difficult. Including an older Brunswick synthetic center I sometimes go to that has the same light colored boards on all 40 boards.

Still...I really wish there was a center that remodeled to wood lanes over synthetic for once. I fear that no one makes wood lanes anymore and won't install it anywhere.