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NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS FROM THE WORLD OF BOWLING GOOGLE BOWLING FOUR LANES INSTALLED AT GOOGLEPLEX


MUCH HAS been written about the fun, informal corporate culture at Google, Inc. Google is an annual staple on Fortune magazine’s list of best companies to work for. The company’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (a five-build- ing, 500,000-square-foot office com- plex) is decorated with lava lamps and old computer server clusters, and the halls are filled with exercise balls and bicycles. Employees have free access to multiple recreation and fitness centers, billiard tables, video games, washers and dryers, and even a massage room. And if you’re a Google employee


who loves bowling, that culture just got better! The company’s Mountain View


campus, fondly referred to as “Google- plex,” recently added four lanes to its revamped fitness facility. The four-lane installation includes


soundproofing in the ceiling, so as not to disturb the workers above, and a state-of-the-art light and sound system (including LED lighting and lasers). According to Patrick Murrey, presi- dent of lane equipment manufacturer


Murrey International, Google hired Northern California construction company Devcon Construction to oversee the project. Devcon, in turn, contacted Murrey. Construction be-


gan in Spring 2010, with the first balls hitting the lanes in January 2011. “So far they’re averaging about 40-


50 lines per day at the facility,” Murrey said.


8 USBOWLER JULY 2011 And what did the bowling manufac-


turer learn during the process? “I know that Google works,” Murrey


laughed. “That’s how Devcon found us!”


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