“We hope our customers will continue to patronize the business under the new owners,” added Davis, whose family will continue to run the Thunderbird Lanes of Manahawkin, Ocean County. While Davis would not identify the party to whom the operation is being sold because the sale had not yet been finalized, he noted that he has already met with his employees, and that he intends to hire most of them back, because they know how to run it. Rather, it is expected to reopen under new ownership as soon as the state allows it to do so. Thunderbird Lanes, a Wrightstown bowling alley that has been a favorite recreational spot with service personnel at the Fort Dix end of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst for many years, will not be shutting its doors forever as a June 11 farewell Facebook posting from the family that has owned it for more than six decades seemed to indicate. The proprietors of the two privately owned and (judging from postings on Facebook) well-loved establishments, Gullo’s Hair Salon and MenZone of Medford and The Queen Bee Boutique, a shop specializing in women’s fashions, which had relocated from Medford to the Marlton Greene Shopping Center, have recently advised customers they would be going out of business, even with the recent easing of state restrictions.īut not all the news is as disheartening as it first appeared. MEDFORD-The economic toll of the Coronavirus pandemic and the resulting temporary shutdown of “nonessential” businesses in this area’s commercial community is already starting to be felt in the permanent closure of a couple of long-time retail operations.
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