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Celebrity's was home to 80 bowling lanes, more than 300 video games and pinball machines spread across three arcades, a 50-meter pool with three water slides, a billiard room, a full-service restaurant, the "Hofbräu" bar, bumper-car rides and a shooting gallery which were located in the "Fun Center"
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4th, and Mike Shady would take the 5th and final seed. The opening match saw Shady squeak out a narrow victory over fourth-seed Goebel with a score of 184-173. He followed up that victory with a 212-199 win over Odom, but he would fall to Bohn III in the third match of the show, 226-204. In the
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championship match, Bohn III was simply unable to find a consistent line to the pocket to score. As a result, he was defeated easily by the number-one seed Mazza, who threw 10 out of 12 possible strikes in a lopsided 269-190 victory to win the first-place prize of $ 18,000.
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Early plans for the redevelopment of the site included a brass plaque to be "mounted somewhere on the new site to commemorate
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location, which had an encased bowling pin from the CSC and a plaque underneath it by the far left exit door. These mementos no longer exist at the Home Depot; the fate of the pin and the plaque are unknown.)
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game room downstairs, the largest of the 3 arcade rooms, where there were ticketed games such as Skee ball or Boom ball to play for prizes . There were also 3 complete slot car tracks in the basement.
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In 1979, a group of private investors led by Bob
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