Trying to track down information about Dundrum Bowl if anyone knows anything about it, who owned it, locals or any stories. Thanks 🙂
Trying to track down information about Dundrum Bowl if anyone knows anything about it, who owned it, locals or any stories. Thanks 🙂
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Look at that stellar lineup of cars though
Nothing exciting to say. Lived just around the corner in 1990 and went almost every week. The lanes were nice enough, if you could find a good ball you could hit reasonable scores (my best was 240). They had Laser Quest in the back and some arcade machines in various states of disrepair. 1990 it was obviously pre shopping center days and the building was shoehorned into a weird little site in a dip down by the ‘river’ with feck all parking. Ireland in 1990 was sooo different to now, I can barely recognize Dundrum these days. I remember it fondly though. I used to like going on a weekday and I’d often be the only person on the lanes. It was meditative! I do remember – if you got three strikes in a row a little turkey would flash up on the score screen (ahhh the nostalgia).
More downmarket than the Stillorgan Bowl. Some happy memories though. If it’s a project you’re working on please post it when it’s done; I’m sure a bunch of us old timers would love to see it!
Wasnt Wally Wabbits beside there too?
Drove past it as a kid a few times. All I can tell you.
> Dundrum Town Centre was built on the site of the former Pye television factory, later the site of an entertainment and bowling centre called Dundrum Bowl. In 1993, the Dundrum Bowl was closed due to flooding
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundrum_Town_Centre
After the bowling was flooded it was briefly reopened as a Rollerblading Rink before closing for good.