the house i've bowled in the majority of the time for the past 13 years( olympia lanes, st. joseph, missouri ) has had wood lanes since it was built in 1962. now it has brand new brunswick proanvilane synthetic lanes. thank goodness they kept the wood approaches which were resurfaced and are in excellent condition. to those of you who do not bowl on synthetic lanes regularly keep this in mind. brand new synthetic lanes are very, very hard and very, very smooth. adding oil to this equation makes for lanes that are slick-----especially today as they opened at noon and only applied a fill shot. the lanes were not cleaned and wouldn't be until this evening for leagues. next week they will receive kegel's newest lane machine that is battery powered. this will replace a well worn, 14 year old phoenix s model. all together, the owners spent over $300,000 on synthetic lanes, automatic bumpers, and a lane machine. quite an investment even in this day and age.
