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From: http://www.thedailypage.com Eight lanes for $17,503. If that was a contractor’s bid on a highway project, the figure would be laughed off as too lowball to be serious. But we’re talking bowling lanes here, and $17,503 is the winning bid on the Union South bowling lanes. It was posted by United Bowling at 9:50:42 p.m. on Monday night, less than 10 minutes before the UW-Madison SWAP (Surplus with a Purpose) facility closed the online auction. For that price, the winning bidder gets eight lanes, eight A-2 pinsetters with spare parts, 16 sets of pins, eight scoring consoles with CRT monitors, Brunswick Frameworx software, printers, a back-office computer, five stationary ball racks, a machine for cleaning balls and pins, four ball-return racks and lifts, six tables and 30 seats, manuals and a few other odds and ends. This is all pursuant to the dismantling of the Union South Games Room and the demolition of Union South itself. The building is being taken down to make way for a new Union South. The winning bidder has until January 26 to remove all the above bowling items purchased with its top bid. |
