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...travelers can buy National Bowling Stadium souvenirs right in the airport gift shops ("Reno Pinhead" caps are $14.95). On the bookshelves there, Dan Herbst's Bowling 300 shares space with Scarne's on Cards. The city and the sport are a good fit, says Eadington. "Reno by image is a working-class to middle-class locale, and that's consistent with bowlers. The way bowlers come in on these tournaments is ideal for a resort town: they're here for a fairly short period, and they don't strain the infrastructure capacity to the extent that major conferences...
After years of indecision about Reno's economic doldrums, the city fathers finally saw a real threat in the spread of casino gambling around the country at the start of the '90s. Reno had been host of three successful A.B.C. tourneys by 1990, and city officials began to talk about how they might get the event back on a regular basis. A.B.C. agreed to come back every third year if the city would build a first-class permanent facility. Armed with that commitment and one from the Women's International Bowling Congress, Reno persuaded the Nevada legislature to raise...
...Vegas can't offer bowlers a facility like Reno's. No place can. The stadium is enormous, a city-block square; the gift shop alone is 11,000 sq. ft. The 80 bowling lanes can be covered over to make 38,000 sq. ft. of convention space. A 172-seat theater opened last week, with 70-mm showings of To Fly and a Reno travelog on a four-story screen. Pearson is already booking the theater for lectures and the space outside for a wide array of events, such as an auction in which 1,000 Harley-Davidsons will...
...hard to miss from Virginia Street, Reno's main drag: an 80-ft. aluminum geodesic dome that looks like nothing so much as a huge bowling ball, proudly and appropriately perched atop the city's new $47.5 million National Bowling Stadium. Three years in construction, the Taj Mahal of tenpins opened in February. Its 80 lanes, under a 42-ft. ceiling, are wider than a football field; it has mauve banquettes, purple and green trim and permanent seating for 1,100 spectators. Scoring is fully automatic and displayed on the world's longest rigid, backlit video screen. Every aspect...
...Reno has been lapped by Las Vegas in the race to capture the imagination of visitors to Nevada. There was a glut of hotel-casino space after a late '70s building boom and "for much of the 1980s, Reno was the wallflower of the casino industry," says Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. But four years ago, the city staked much of its future on bowling. And the gamble is paying off. The stadium's inaugural event, the 92nd annual tournament of the American Bowling Congress...