With more bills accruing, you can’t be closed for three months and not have any revenue and take the time to sell. “You have to be able to have the time to put it on the market, but this (situation) didn’t allow for that. “It’s not like I didn’t try,” she said, adding that the timing was wrong. In fact, had she not been forced to shut down so unexpectedly and for so long a period, she might well have sold the salon to a new owner. Gullo maintained that while she would have been looking at retiring at some point after running the salon for 30 years (in addition to another 15 with her ex-husband Dennis Gullo), she certainly hadn’t planned on closing up shop so abruptly, and to find herself in the position of suddenly-and reluctantly-having to sell off her equipment, displays and products. “I would still be running the business now if we hadn’t had to close down in March, that is for sure,” said Marie Gullo, owner of Gullo’s, when contacted by this newspaper. However, for patrons of Gullo’s and the Queen Bee, despite a modified lifting of mandated closure orders that has already taken place for nonessential retailers, or is about to where personal services businesses such as hair stylists are concerned, there is to be no such reprieve. “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. ![]() For those of you who have bowling equipment at the bowling center or who would like to say their good byes to the Davis family we will be available on Saturday, June 20th from 12 noon to 6 p.m.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. We had an amazing run and a lot of good memories and friends have been made over the past years! Jim, Joe and Matt will focus on continuing to run their Thunderbird Lanes bowling alley located in Manahawkin, NJ and we wish them continued success. After 62+ years it's time!! With that being said, we are announcing the sale of our Wrightstown Thunderbird Lanes bowling alley location and Wrightstown Enterprise business. It has been a long journey from 1958 when our father James Sterling Davis (aka Pop) built the bowling alley and shopping center in Wrightstown, NJ. To all of our wonderful customers over the past 62+ years: We wanted to take this opportunity to thank all of our employees, league bowlers, tenants and customers. ![]() The owners of Thunderbird Lanes, the Davis family, have decided, after 62 years of service, to sell the business.
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