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Uli and Helga Friebe
bought Enderby Lanes in 1970 and currently own it, 1989. When they bought the alley, the
bottom of the outside wall was painted red, where it is now black. The rest of the outside
was white, the same as now. It looked like a theater, probably because it was the Monarch
Theater before the Friebes bought it.
The walls, gutters, and posts inside were blue. The tiles on the floor were grey. The
Friebes remodeled the alley in 1981. They changed the foul lines to electric; they moved
the door, washrooms, and front desk. New vending machines were also bought. The Friebes
upgraded the pinsetter machines from double - diamond, free - fall machines which only had
twenty-two pins each to the updated most recent automatic string machines.
The Enderby lanes are sixty feet long and forty to forty-three inches wide. The lanes are
made of maple and have to be dressed every week. Every year they are refinished. The
approacher is two feet shorter than it is supposed to be at Enderby Lanes. The balls range
from three pounds six ounces to three pounds eight ounces.
Enderby Lanes have to change their pins every year. The pins are made of plastic, but the
old ones were made of wood. Canada is the only country in the world that has five-pin
lanes; the rest of the world uses ten - pin lanes. Eastern Canada plays five - pin with
candlestick pins.
Naomi LaBelle
ALF School 1989