Bowl-O-Bama

Claim:   Photograph shows a "Bowl-O-Bama" bowling alley in Clearwater, Florida.

FALSE

Examples:   [Collected via e-mail, January 2012]

A bowling alley in Clearwater, Florida, Bowl-O-Bama, is doing record business despite a bad economy. The alley also reports a record number of 300 games.

Since opening in November 2010, 963 patrons have bowled a perfect game, including strikes in the warm-up frames.

This alley also has the highest bowling league average in the country, with a 237. And that's the senior league.

Origins:   There's no "Bowl-O-Bama" bowling alley like the one pictured above, in Clearwater, Florida, or anywhere else. This mid-2011 digital creation was inspired by, and is a modified version of, a promotion for a German insurance company advertising sales of dental implant coverage:

Last updated:   9 January 2012