Posted on 11/13/2012 12:19:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
AMF Bowling Worldwide Inc., the world's largest bowling operator, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to restructure its mounting debt.
The Hanover County-based company said this morning that it filed a pre-arranged petition with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond.
AMF said it expects completing the restructuring process and exiting Chapter 11 within five months.
AMF operates a location in Lynchburg near the intersection of U.S. 29 and Candlers Mountain Road, near James T. Davis Paint Center.
The company said it will continue its normal business operations during the Chapter 11 process, and its bowling centers will maintain normal operating schedules...
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Our local “Main Event” is still packed every weekend.
They still do well with leagues, but as an unaffiliated recreational past-time, they are dead in the water.
The league bowlers will get old and die and there will be a dearth of new bowlers coming in because not enough people are willing to pay their golf course prices.
AMF should ask Obama that the bowling alley will create GREEN ENERGY, so he can give them TAXPAYERS MONEY!!
How can the Obama administration allow “big bowling” to fail?
Won’t happen - nobody will like the idea of actually having to DO SOMETHING to get food stamps...
A score of 37! That's twenty less than the number of states.
The alleys around here have $1 games at least once a week.
Awww, this makes me sad. So much fun, many years ago.
We bowled at Paramus Lanes, Home of Champs.
Take a read about the Home of Champions:
“the bowling alley will create GREEN ENERGY”
Harness the static electricity generated by the ball rolling down the lane and through the ball return. Our green energy problems are solved. How cool is that? /s
I got mixed reactions whenever I said “It’s leaking like an AMF Harley.” People had to think for a second that it wasn’t an insult to HD but to AMF.
Now that there is the most sophisticated political discernment you will ever see!
I wonder, what’s the difference between handing out money or booze at the polling places or bribing people for votes all the way up to the election day?
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