By Daily News Staff - November 14th 2024
BELOIT
Henry Dorrbaker’s, a 20,000-square-foot bar, restaurant and family entertainment venue, opens to the public Monday at 4 p.m.
Geronomio Hospitality, along with the Greater Beloit Chamber of Commerce, will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 3 p.m. before opening the doors to customers. The new entertainment venue is in the Spine area of the Ironworks Campus off Third Street in downtown Beloit.
Geronimo, which is owned by Hendricks Commercial Properties, launched construction in May with a ceremonial “first roll” of duckpin bowling balls.
Duckpin bowling was invented around 1900. The ball is smaller, about the size of a softball, and the pins are 9 inches tall. Players are allowed three rolls instead of two. There are only about 40 duckpin bowling alleys in the United States.
Dorrbaker’s will be much more than bowling, though. Located along the banks of the Rock River in the Ironworks Campus, it includes a full kitchen and bar along with a stage, walk-up bar, space for yard games such as bags, along with Skee-ball, a miniature golf course, arcade games and racing simulators.
The venue will be open to children and adults, but after 8 p.m. it will be an adults only venue.
The venue’s name comes from the man who opened Beloit’s first bowling alley in 1899. Ironically, when it opens, Dorrbaker’s will be the only bowling alley in the city. The city’s last bowling center, Diamond Lanes, closed in August 2020.
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