Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Bowling Nouveau

Saturday night I met some friends at Lucky Strikes downtown, an "upscale" bowling alley. Basically it's your average bowling alley, that's been spruced up so they can charge a small fortune to bowl.

We weren't bowling, but we were playing some expensive pool, and having a good time with it - despite my raw suckage. At some point in the night they started showing the work of various artists on all of the screens. Here's an example of the "art" that was shown. It's a tad blurry due to my crappy cell phone camera (and maybe the 6 or so beers at that point).


Ignoring that fact that most of the art was pure crap, why would a bowling alley show art rather than ESPN, or some other sports-related thing? Here's a ground breaking idea, how about showing music videos! I understand that they're trying to be more exclusive than your average Colfax bowling alley, but come on. Does a crappy drawing of a Norelco Razor really add to the ambiance of a bowling alley?

2 comments:

Roland Deschain said...

I think by virtue of this blog post, it shows that you're not quite the uppity nouveau clientele that Lucky Strike is going for. You know...a fake hipster?

Kinda like Coyote Ugly next door. Brand new place in a fairly new building manufactured to look decades old and have character for people who don't know what a real bar with character is.

God I hate downtown. :P

Unknown said...

It adds significantly to the ambiance if you're the one who drew the picture.

"See, my art is so good it is displayed prominently at Lucky Strikes"