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S. Main Si. Site Also Chosen By Sports Bowl Inc.By JERRY NARDIELLO Journal Sports EditorMiddletown's bowling alley capacity took another leap forward yesterday with the announcement of a new 18-alley establishment.The new alleys, incorporated ] the Sports Bowl, will he owned t y J Jack Frisbie and Art Eliopoulos of Middletown, and Lotus K Za\a- 1 kos of Dayton. Only Frisbie and /Eliopoulos. however, w:l :lt;e actively engaged in the opcrat.on of the 1 new establishment.The Sports Bowl will he erect ed at 2710 S. Main, immediately south of the Sports Center.The announcement comes only j four days after plans for another ^20*a!lcv bowline center were an* ♦ nounced by Mike Earach of the Broad St. Bow'.-Mor and Bob,Doughman of the Frontier Lane?, ( to be constructed on S. Main, adja- j cent to the Dixie Cruise-In,Both are expected to be com- ( pleted by the 1956-57 season, which Aouid give Middletown keglers 62 \ alleys on which to operate Frisbie. who will be general man- . ager of the Sports Bow! corpora- 1 tion, said the building will be simi- t lar in most details to one recently I opened by 21avakos in Dayton.The same plans will be used, call* f ing for a building 105 feet by 150 c feet and containing 16.000 square t feet of space The building will i e 1 erected on property 150 feet wide G and 350 feet deep and wiU contain ) a parking area large enough to contain in excess of 300 cars.Frisbie said the new building and land will represent an in- 1vestment of $275,M0.The plans, drawn up by Georg T. Neuffer, Dayton architect, ca for an ultra-modern structure of c concrete block and brick, and the 1 most modern in alley equipment j ’In addition to automatic pinspot-ters, the new establishment will • .: v ’ d |one other alloy in the Miam: Va -. m i .n Dr *•'. U |underground returns.The contract for construction of the new building has been let to Henry Stock 3t Sons, general eon * tractors from Dayton, and work oni ‘ the structure . exyn ted 1 ct this week The contract was award- ’ ed Friday,Among the features of the new , building will be a mezzanine which1 will contain offices, lockers, meef- ? ing rooms, and a special nursery if where children will be entertained c while mothors bowl.Upholstered spectator scats and 3 air-conditioning are other features tOnly two of the three menin the new corporation haveJ! been actively connected withbowling. Zavakos. who own* atotal of 170 Ian*** in Daytonand Springfield, has been in thenbowling and restaurant busitlness for 10 years.Frisbie, living in Middletown 10ain the Ohio Bowling A»-ciaiioe,and secretary of the MiddletownBowling Association. A farmer restaurant owner, he has been a realestate salesman for more than oneyear.Eliopoulos has operated a localgrocery for nine years. He will r *secreiary-treasurer of the Sports-Bowl.The transaction for the S MamSt property, bought from M- andMr Egbert Reed, operators of the5oorts Center, was comp! ted Friday by the Dave Finkleman Real-jtors.
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, Nov 27, 1955
Page 23
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