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Ley's Bark River Lanes All Season Bar, Grill & Dining - Rome, Wisconsin - Friday Night Fish Fry
This entry was posted on 3/26/2010 2:07 AM and is filed under Taverns Wisconsin, Bowling with Dadio, Friday Night Fish Fry.
You better know how to keep score if you bowl at Ley's Bark River Lanes in Rome, Wisconsin. When I went up to the bar to rent a lane, the girl handed me a score paper. There will be a pencil on the lane table waiting for you. I had to think for a moment. With all the computerized bowling lanes now days, I have not kept score for 15 years. They have six wood lanes. They have not succumbed to synthetic floors yet. I actually bowl better on real wood.
What's going on these days in Rome? Well Ley's is the center of a lot of local activity. They are next to the fire station and right in the middle of town. You can bowl. You can drink. You can play pool. You can play one of the video machines. You can eat fish fry. The day I was bowling, somebody was having a birthday party in the lower area by the lanes.
The bar is long and seems to often be busy. There is an eating room on the opposite side as the bowling alley. The bar is rebuilt and if you look down you will see a stuffed turkey under class at the corner. There is a nifty stainless steal pipe to rest your dogs on under the bar.
Now comes some local lore. There is long striped pipe hanging above the bar. Under it says: "Packers 41 - Rams 10; Milwaukee County Stadium, December 2, 1962." Remember that was in an era of Packer football resurgence. It was also a time when the Packers played a few games at Milwaukee County Stadium each season. Apparently the owner of the bar brought home one of the goal post uprights after it was tore down by fans after the game. It used to be a big deal. These old posts looked more like close-line pipe than the high-tech fiber glass stuff used today. Anyway, the thing is 30 feet long. I can only imagine tying it to an old Buick and riding it back to...Rome - maybe after a beer or two? Try that now days. Yikes. When I inquired about the pipe, several people at the bar rattled off the story in chronology.
We got there about 5:00 p.m. on a Friday and got right in. But, the caveat is, by 5:30 there was a line. Heide got the fish of the day which was Blue Gills. I got the 3-piece Cod. Heide tried the potato pancakes and I ordered up the American fries with onions. There is a salad bar; it features German Potato salad, marble bread, slaw, and pea salad. There is a large menu of options if you are not up to fish; including pizza. With adult beverages, dinner, bowling, and goal post story, I forgot what it cost us to get out of there. It must have been around thirty Bucks with tip.
The bar has its share of taxidermed animals. On a subsequent visit to the place, my mother-in-law found the moose endearing. Guess it reminders her of the old Moose Club. The stuffed beasts segue off some official hunting business you can facilitate there. You'd have to call them about hunting tags. I have not hunted in years.
Ley's Bark River Lanes All Season Bar, Grill & Dining is cool with Cool Dadio. Find them at W1914 Main Street, Rome, Wisconsin. Highway 18 runs to their north. Highway 106 runs to their south. County Road F runs between the two high ways through Rome. Call (262) 593 - 2422 for more information.
Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
(each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)
This week's Wisconsin military service person to remember is Marine Staff Sergeant Chad J. Simon, 32 of Monona. He died on August 4, 2005 while under hospice care in Madison, Wisconsin. His death was caused from wounds he received nine months earlier in an explosion during combat in Babil Province, Iraq, on November 8, 2004. Staff Sergeant Simon was with the Madison-based Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve. Three other Marines from the Madison-based unit - Lance Corporal Shane K. O'Donnell, 24, of De Forest; Lance Corporal Branden Ramey, 22, of Belvidere, Ill.; and, Corporal Robert Warns II, of Waukesha - died in the same attack. While in Iraq, the unit was stationed in Babil province, 30 miles south of Baghdad. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel mentioned Chad enlisted in the reserves a few months before he graduated from Madison's La Follette High School in 1990. Staff Sergeant Simon had earned the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal three times; the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; and, for his November, 2004 wounds, the Purple Heart Medal. Simon's unit was called to duty in June 2004 and sent to Iraq in September 2004. The Journal Sentinel went on to say in civilian life, Simon had a painting business and was known to be a perfectionist at his trade. At the time of his death, Simon was survived by his wife, Regina; 6-year-old son, Dylan; parents, Jerry Simon of Cuba City and Carol Parham of Bradenton, Florida.; and, a sister, Stacy Simon of Bradenton, Florida. Staff Sergeant Chad Simon was the 44th Wisconsin soldier to die in Iraq since the spring of 2003.
As of this blog entry's posting date:
95,755 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
9,415 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
4,390 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
1019 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
317 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
663 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
31,739 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
5,317 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
17 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
140 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
21 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.
Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.
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