Fire at the bowling alley

Fire on Wednesday, December 20, 1978, did $2,500 damage to the bowling alley. It started in a storage room on the second floor at Spencer’s Marina City Bowl. An electrician, George Lieberman, suffered burns on his arm and upper chest when the electrical system he was working on short-circuited.

The bowling alley was back in the news on January 3, 1981, when day manager John Davidson was robbed at gunpoint of $1,500. It happened on a Saturday morning, as Davidson was counting money from the cash register. He was tied up with a telephone cord before the gunman left.