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| - From 11 pm until closing at 2 am, $16 gets you unlimited bowling. Friday and Saturday. The lights are dim, the speakers play good music (with the videos over the lanes), the beer is cheap, and the crowd gets loud. You can't help but have a good time. Even the worn floors and dingy walls contribute to the atmosphere. It is the bowling equivalent of a first-rate dive bar.
I have grown accustomed, at entertainment venues, to paying a fortune for all the peripherals. Alcohol, especially, can come with a 300% markup over retail. Not so here. Two orders of fries were five dollars. Pitchers of beer were flowing just as cheaply. This was awesome.
I had heard, before coming, that this place had a sketchy reputation. It is in a really rough area, I was told. The security guards had metal detectors and weren't messing around, but this was not a "sketchy" place. There were teenagers, adults, and even families. No kids were there so late, but they wouldn't have been out of place. I can only find one explanation for the alley's reputation. Other than my 5 friends, there wasn't another white person in the building. Unfortunately, Charlotte being what it is, this has all kinds of strange influence on people's opinions. But that is their loss - this was one of the best nights I've had in a long long time.
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