Dennis Scott :  

fter 18 months this individual became financially strapped due to other poor investments. Once again, I had to find another job I took a job with the Fair Lanes bowling chain in Baltimore. But, they too sold the company five months later and had the new owners had major financial difficulties. I was manager Southdale Lanes. I stayed there for about 3 years But everything kept getting worst, as I began looking again. In 1991 two major thing took place #1 My son Eric's American Legion baseball team won the American Legion National Championship (His 2nd National Championship) Plus, Eric made the All-City (twice) and the All-State team in Football as a Quarterback and the All-City and All-State in Baseball in his Junior and Senior years. #2 My wife served me with divorce papers after 21 years. I felt no reason to stay in Baltimore. So I found a job with AMF in Florida in 1991 Altamonte Lanes, in Orlando for 2 years. Then I was promoted to District Manager of 7 AMF bowling centers Western Florida. I held that position over 4 years. In 1993 Fair Lanes chain went bankrupt and the company was picked up by AMF and merged in. In the Fall of 1996, I came upon 2 disasters #1 Larry Ross, a Fair Lanes guy, became Regional Manager of the Florida area. Ross had a dislike for me from the start going back to Baltimore when I quit on him to go to AMF. #2 I found out that I had prostate cancer. I had the surgery in December 1996 and was out of work for about 8 weeks. 2 days after I returned to work Ross let me go saying I did not fit into his plans. Looking for a job went well, I had several job choices, but I was not yet fully recovered from my surgery, so I took the course of least resistance and went to work for an independent owner of a bowling center in Lakeland, Fla. I was living in Lakeland at the time. It was an okay job but did not pay enough money I was there 2 years I found a better job in Aurora, Ill, at Parkside Lanes, in December 1998, a 54-lane center. After being single for 10 years I met Trudy Dudley and we got Married on August 4, 2001. From there I went to Indianapolis in April 2003 and managed a 80 lane bowing center for 8 years. The company restructured in summer 2010 and myself an two other managers that were in their 60's were phased out. The company said it had nothing to do with age.... Yeah right. I found a job in Pittsburgh managing two centers and started in Feb. 2011. Despite increasing business and the bottom line the owners felt the increases should have been larger from someone with my experience and let me go in October 2011. Trudy and my kids convinced me to retire and we moved back to Lakeland, Florida January 1, 2012. I sat around watching TV for 8 months. But now I have recently found a part time job (2 nights) at a bowling center in Winter Haven and I also just found a job at a golf course working in the cart barn. Neither job pays much but do offer free bowling and golf, so that is a big plus in the pocketbook. Currently, I have 7 kids, 8 grandchildren and 6 great-grand children . Trudy has 8 kids and she has 15 grandchildren. We live right in between Orlando and Tampa so if your are coming to Disney or nearby let us know it would be nice to see you.