July 21, 2009
Are you ready for the Highball? Imagine that the Alamo Drafthouse expanded outside of movie related events. What else would the do? Bowling? Stand-alone food and drink? Karaoke? Pool and skeeball? A music venue? It seems they are doing just that. All of them.
The Highball will be located in the old Salvation Army building next to the South Lamar Drafthouse location. It's a little coincidental that natedogg just informed me of this development since I noticed yesterday that the 300 bowling lanes up near Rundberg and I-35 ("Tonight we bowl in hell!") has reverted back to Showplace Lanes with a non-descript "Bowling" sign with a small AMF logo. The physics bowling team may have to check this place out once it is up and running. Leagues at the Highball could be quite attractive. While the TX Union is cheap and has fun, attractive undergrads, it also has some less than pleasant aspects that we may want to avoid.
1) Tim and Karrie are definitely behind it.
2) In the AusChron article carl linked, a lawsuit is mentioned between them and the now franchise owners. Short version: they sold the rights to Alamo to "the suits" with the right to run Ritz, Village, S. Lamar, and Lake Creek themselves going forward. They feel the suits did not do enough to "take the brand national" (although, as habcous and notthomas are fond of discussing, they are opening one as far afield as area hotbed Winchester, VA).
3) Well it sounds like the suits suck although there seems to be little hard info out there about why exactly they suck.
4) See 1).
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So.. who is doing the Highball business? Isn't Tim League still suing the guys that he sold the Alamo stuff to? Don't those suits suck? Is this their work?
posted by javelina at 12:10AM CST on July 24