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Meeting the full requirement gave Reese the ability to serve beer on tap, ales, and liquor.
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A year later in 1984, the decision for a liquor license was reversed to Fred Reese by meeting the full proper requirements of a restaurant.
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If the request for the license had been approved, he had plans to install a countertop for beer taps and more tables. Although it still did not meet the full requirements, Reese had large banquet tables, folding chairs, and smaller tables used for lunch. He stated that he made $19,000 on vending machine sales, and $2,000 worth of business selling hotdogs and sandwiches. At that time, Reese owned the business for 7 years. Approximately 25 people had attended the hearing for Reese, all claiming that he operated a fine business. The owner during this time period was Fred Reese. Throughout the years, many events were held at the alley including bowling tournaments, rec programs, field trips, and even the occasional Birthday parties.Īccording to an article written by The Bangor Daily News dating back to 1983, Rocket Lanes was denied a malt liquor license to serve beer on tap by a towns selectman for not meeting the full requirements of a restaurant classification. Moving along with my research, I did find that there was a fire that had taken place destroying the original building, injuring 5 people after the fire swept the building in 1967. The building that sits now, to me is still unknown. If I was to take an educated guess, I would say the current building was completed in the late 60’s after this article was published, or maybe construction was put off until the early 70’s. The original Rocket Lanes building must have been the one that was destroyed, not the current building that sits to this day. The article dated all the way back to April 20th of 1967, stating that Rocket Lanes was to be completely rebuilt do to a fire destroying the building. The closest date that I was able to discover came from an article of The Town Crier, which I may add was a local paper that served the late Penquis area. As much research as I did on th is specific business, I was not able to find the original opening date to this place. Located on Summer Street, just exiting the small yet sophisticated town of Piscataquis County named Dover- Foxcroft with a population of 4,211 with an estimated 1,658 known households as of the year 2000, sits the 12000sq ft plain brick building known as Stars and Strikez Family Entertainment. I guess abandoned bowling alleys weren’t as uncommon as I seemed to think they were after all. It was believed that other sporting events and of course the economy had taken over this popular pastime. In 1979, the bowling population was up to 9 million, then as of 2011, the bowling population took a large decrease to 2.5 millon. The activity stuck around with a bowling alley in almost every town, or at least in every other town that is.
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It didn’t come and go out of style like the famous local drive-inn movie theaters, although cinemas may have taken over in that department.
It didn’t matter what decade you lived in bowling always seemed to go through phases’, making its way as a popular family outing amongst middle class families and as you became older it faded into a pastime. Maybe when some pass by, they stare at it as a reminder of the past and long-lost memories, or maybe some still catch a glimpse of the huge sign every now and again that still sits in loneliness by the main road with random missing plastic letters that doesn’t complete the message. Eventually it became forgotten, also somewhat hidden even though hundreds of cars may pass it everyday. It had mysteriously closed and no one really talked about it after the fact.
I was instantly reminded of this bowling alley that was located the next couple of towns over, that I had gone too numerous times when I was a kid. The weirdest/most random thing I ever came across was an abandoned YMCA, but this was so much more fascinating. After 6 years of aimlessly searching the internet, coming across hundreds of websites on urban decay, never have I come across an abandoned bowling alley or anything along those lines, nor have I ever thought to do any type of research on the subject while searching for random urban decay. A couple of minutes into the video, I was hooked. Eventually I came across a self taped video of a few young people venturing through an abandoned bowling alley located not far from Maine in Providence, RI. One particular day, I was surfing YouTube watching one video leading to another. You never know what you may stumble upon, whether it happens to be in real life, or just simply surfing the internet of boredom.