News on the Rose Bowl Lanes

[Johnboy976]

What news is there on the Rose Bowl? I haven't heard word about it for months.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Johnboy976

What news is there on the Rose Bowl? I haven't heard word about it for months.

i thought that place burned down

[Johnboy976]

I know that it had two fires, but as far as I know... it didn't burn down.

[sgrizzle]

Nope, still there despite competition's attempts to the contrary.

I'm betting it will be in limbo for a long time given that it contractually can't open as a bowling lane again.

[PonderInc]

What sort of contract would limit its use?  Does Tulsa have a bowling monopoly?

By the way, after the last arson fire in 2005, the fire marshall said it was "structurally intact."

[sgrizzle]

I read on this board that when it was sold to it's current owner that it was sold under the agreement that it wouldn't reopen as bowling due to the fact there is a surplus of lanes in Tulsa currently.

[RecycleMichael]

I kinda know the current owners (high school buds with the cousins). The current owners are the car fix-it guys to the east.

They bought it for $300 grand and are storing some vehicles on the east end of the parking lot. They had it listed for resale at $400 grand last I saw.

The terms they bought it under included a clause that they would not operate another bowling alley there, but a resale would probably negate any previous instructions.

I think the city should buy it and redo it as a community center of a grand new McClure Park.

[sgrizzle]

I think "The Bust Stop" should buy it and relocation form 71st St.




Jut kidding.

[AMP]

Green Country Bowling Centers recently were complaining of lower attendance following the ban on tobacco burning in their facilities.  

Majority of bowling league participants enjoyed a sudsy beverage, and a smoke along with their favorite passtime.

With the loss of so many full time senior and middle age smoking bowlers added to the higher lane fees, there seemed to be a problem with so many centers open.

[aoxamaxoa]

Would someone please open a small rock n bowl in downtown..... they cost a lot to construct. Back in the 80's, it cost $100,000 per lane.

I visited Magoo's the other night and was amazed at the crowd. The music by Michele Brown and her band featuring Bill Pitcock and Bingo Sloan was fun.

[Chris]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

I think "The Bust Stop" should buy it and relocation form 71st St.

And they could put a giant bra over the two "humps" []

[Townsend]

Nicer looking back in its day than I would've thought.

[TheArtist]

  It was a neat place.  I remember when I was a kid and going with my parents while they did S&H Green Stamps Bowling.  I would go and get the stamps as they would win them and put them in the books.  Loved licking those stamps and filling the pages.  Sometimes they would win so much so quickly that I would end up with completely full, and quite soggy lol, books.  Then about once a year we would go to the green stamps store and pick stuff out.  I believe the store we went to was in the old mid century mod shopping center that used to be at 21st and Yale.  

[Conan71]

 It was a neat place.  I remember when I was a kid and going with my parents while they did S&H Green Stamps Bowling.  I would go and get the stamps as they would win them and put them in the books.  Loved licking those stamps and filling the pages.  Sometimes they would win so much so quickly that I would end up with completely full, and quite soggy lol, books.  Then about once a year we would go to the green stamps store and pick stuff out.  I believe the store we went to was in the old mid century mod shopping center that used to be at 21st and Yale.  

Mayo Meadow.

[DolfanBob]

I never bowled at the Rose Bowl. But I did go and see Al and Peg Bundy bowl there. I was in a league at the old Harvard Lanes. Fun time to be a kid.