What news is there on the Rose Bowl? I haven't heard word about it for months.
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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
I know that it had two fires, but as far as I know... it didn't burn down.
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.
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."
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.
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.
I think "The Bust Stop" should buy it and relocation form 71st St.
Jut kidding.
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.
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.
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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" [:D]
Nicer looking back in its day than I would've thought.
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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.
Quote from: TheArtist on October 02, 2012, 12:45:08 PM
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.
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.
Quote from: DolfanBob on October 04, 2012, 03:18:50 PM
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.
Where was Harvard Lanes? I'm drawing a complete blank.
Quote from: Conan71 on October 04, 2012, 03:42:16 PM
Where was Harvard Lanes? I'm drawing a complete blank.
Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.
Quote from: Hoss on October 04, 2012, 03:53:45 PM
Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.
We probably bowled against each other. That is the exact ages that I was when my parents took us there.
Quote from: DolfanBob on October 05, 2012, 09:50:41 AM
We probably bowled against each other. That is the exact ages that I was when my parents took us there.
Maybe...I was 8 in 1975 and remember starting my bowling there. I always remembered the split 32 lane setup (2 sets of 16 a side). I also remember VERY vividly being there when the Shuttle Enterprise did her landing test (after being released from the top of a 747) and watching it on the little 12 inch b/w TV they had at the shoe counter. Wow.
Quote from: Hoss on October 04, 2012, 03:53:45 PM
Northeast corner of Pine and Harvard. I bowled there from age 8 to about 12.
Actually, I'm mistaken Conan...it's the northWEST corner of Pine and Harvard. The building still stands. You can tell by looking at it that it was a bowling alley.
http://goo.gl/maps/EzvFQ
http://goo.gl/maps/BvLGI
A little nugget in today's TW sports section stated this facility was now owned (or at least operated) by Bill Blankenship's brother and another family member. Apparently they've purchase the old Reynolds Center basketball floor. They've renamed the facility a really long name that I don't recall.
Wasn't it a furniture store for many years after the bowling alley?
Quote from: DolfanBob on October 05, 2012, 11:13:48 AM
Wasn't it a furniture store for many years after the bowling alley?
Yes.