Passion & Profit in an American Pastime

And you know, for a lot of tense and purposes that gives you a baseline of revenue. It's not going to make you rich as a proprietor, but it's going to, it's going to make sure that you can pay your bills every month.

It's going to kind of give you a good baseline so that if you can start building up the rest of the business like you mentioned, the birthday parties, the corporate events, the Friday and Saturday nights, then that's where you know the, the cash flowing can really come from.

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And you might mention the the book Bowling Bowling alone here. So kind of a anthropological detour. But, but talk to us about that.

Yeah, we could Have a long discussion about, you know, the history of bowling in Americana and you know, kind of where the economic indicators have pushed the sport of bowling.

But you know, historically, if you want to think about the heyday of league bowling in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, you're talking about, you know, nine to five type of workers would get off work, they would go to bowl in their league and you know, they would kind of enjoy time with friends and family after work.

How the economy has shifted to more longer hours, you know, less free time, less disposable income, fewer bowling centers, fewer lane beds across America, especially in, in really high density population areas where the real estate can't necessarily afford to have the, the square footage that a bowling center requires. You know, some of it has disappeared.

I think for now it's become very much a sport of the secondary markets, the, you know, the suburban markets, the rural markets, just because the, the big high density markets can't necessarily support it as well. But you know, from a, because of.

The real estate footprint is that real estate is better used in other applications, you know, some multi family building or whatever or higher producing retail.

Absolutely correct. Yeah. So from a, from a price per square foot that they, we can pay from a revenue per square foot, you know, bowling is not going to generate the type of revenue that a big box retailer is going to generate.