You should check out Fireside, that's a real bowling alley.
Or make the drive to Stockton, both houses here are private ownership.
Fireside is a great place; Steve Cook owns it outright, and Gary and Leanne Hulsenberg ran the pro shop there before taking the office job at Storm HQ. However, it like every other house in the Sacramento area, needs serious renovation.
I may be a bit biased because I moved here from Las Vegas, but nearly every house in town is dated, and dated badly. The pinsetters and ball returns look like they came from the 70s at the earliest (60s if you include Country Club), late 80s/early 90s at the latest. Coming from Vegas, there isn't an alley there older than 2000 that hasn't been renovated, if not renovated twice. So coming from a place like Gold Coast, Suncoast, Orleans, or Sunset Station, to something like Country Club looks like I've traveled back in time, and not in a nostalgic fashion.
While I understand that they can't spend money they don't have, some of the things alleys have spent money on is a joke. One such place spent more on the bar and putting in HDTVs than they did on the pinsetters and ball returns, both of which are falling apart.
If Fireside can pull it together, they can have a really killer house.
BL.