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Before the "Brunswick Zone" era, Brunswick-owned bowling centers were built with their own unique names. Sometimes with Brunswick inserted into it (Brunswick Deer Park Lanes, for example), but they still retained some form of individuality.

In the mid-90s, BB&B began converting centers to the BZ format (my guess is in efforts of attracting a new, younger generation of bowlers). The "BRC guy" logo was still used (albeit heavily scaled back outside corporate) with an updated font and a slightly-redundant "A Brunswick Company" tagline added, until approximately 2006 (the most recent print I could find it on). Today only a few rogue centers that have evaded the BZ or BZ-XL conversion sport this logo.

Our center had a Brunswick regional office in the same building (though separate from the actual center) which closed years ago and we're still cleaning crap out. I found a few hundred of these stickers and other goodies inside.

Aretha in the garage at Antioch CDJR after her 23 mile journey from Miller Motor Sales in Burlington, WI.

2/29/12 - 40 miles

I. Can't. Wait... to go to work in the A.M....

The interior of the Dodge Charger is unlike anything I've ever sat in before. I can only say that Chrysler has seriously turned its ass around compared to the utter garbage they were producing just a few short years ago.

After an evening of touching up the detail work, and setting the uConnect system to my likings; Aretha is ready to enter service!