We stopped by around lunchtime to see how the auction was progressing, and we arrived in time to see one guy buy all the lanes for $1,000 each. Well, it was just the synthetic top of all the lanes — not the gutters, sensors and the original maple wood underneath, which were all auctioned off separately.
Also, they sold the entire scoring system — computer, floor displays, monitors — for all the lanes for a total of $3,200. (In this case, that’s the total of all the individual bids, as some folks just bought a couple of the floor displays.)
But we left before the most popular items — the bowling pins — were auctioned off. Since the lot sizes are so large (it looks like you have to buy a few dozen pins at a time), we’re betting some of this will soon appear on Craigslist.
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Good turnout at Sunset Bowl auction
April 22nd, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Ballard
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1 Wendy // Apr 22, 2008 at 3:50 pm
There is still quite a crowd over there with what looks to be a bbq going in the side parking lot
2 Suthii // Apr 22, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Can we expect to find a Volvo-driving yuppie, carrying a $4 coffee in front of their condo, bludgeoned by one of these bowling pins on Market St. this evening?
Readers want to know, how angry are the natives?
3 Suthii // Apr 22, 2008 at 5:49 pm
“buy all the lanes for $1,000 each”
They’ll make great floors in some new condo I bet!
4 JuneBug // Apr 23, 2008 at 7:40 am
Hey Suthii, if someone does use them for flooring in some new condo at least they’d be environmentally conscious by re-using the wood. Plus it would probably make a pretty cool floor now that I think about it.
5 Ayles // Apr 23, 2008 at 8:41 am
The lanes that were purchased for $1000 each are the synthetic top layer. Rumor has it the original maple is still there under the synthetic.
6 Sara // Apr 23, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Actually, they auctioned off the synthetic and maple flooring. I have no idea how much the maple went for……..
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