The Ojai Post

I understand there's major Asbesthos removal required in there before anything can be done.

yes. it would be great! i know we'd be regulars.

I support this 100% and will do anything to help the person who has stepped up to offer all the youth and community in Ojai one more fun thing to do!

Skate park and a bowling center! Keep it coming, my youngest son is 10 years old and it's my mission to help Ojai in anyway to offer our youth more things to do and better places to hang out and be kids.
I've realized that it takes years to get things done in Ojai-no matter how positive the project is, so if I start volunteering now by the time he is a teenager he will have many positive choices to make with his free time.
We live in Ojai and when I finally let him ride his bike around town with his friends(you know like we use to when we were kids)it will be great to see him and his friends have choices. I'm talking about that great free time that children need when they want to hang out with friends without their parents. Ojai has a ton of great organized sports and programs, we just need to make sure they have fun, safe places to go when they aren't participating in those.
I'm sending a huge thank you to the person who is taking on this business venture!
Anyone want to work on a bmx track for the kids in town?

YES PLEASE!!!!

Can anyone tell me where the building in question is exactly? Sounds great!

A few blocks past the arcade on the left.

Yes!Yes!Yes!It's needed.

I would love to see it running again. I had my 12th birthday party there over 40 years ago. Years later my sister worked at the cafe there. There also used to be a minature golf course across the street near the fire station.

YES...Please bring this place back! So many great memories were made at that bowling alley. It has been sitting for way too long. The youth AND adults in Ojai need to have something to do in town!

YES...Please bring this place back! So many great memories were made at that bowling alley. It has been sitting for way too long. The youth AND adults in Ojai need to have something to do in town!

Yes you must breing it back. We cannot doze over things and places that shaped the history of Ojai ,I spent many a satruday with my family there in the early 70's and then later in high school spent many times there for lunch with friends or after school .And while we are at it what about the Ojai Frosty it was the best in town now gone. It's shameful to see such places go.

would love to see the bowling center up and running. we used to go there all the time in the 70's too.

Frank - as for the Frostie - it was so run down when they finally closed it you wouldn't have even recognized it from our high school days. I thought the food was barely edible and it was dirty. It was time for it to go. Jim and Rob's in the same location is much better. And carries on the high school hangout tradition. And it feels good that a Nordhoff graduate is the owner and keeping the kids and adults fed in downtown Ojai!

AWWW i hope that they do bring back the bowling alley i bowled there in j leauges, worked there and hung out with my boyfriend WHO IS NOW MY HUSBAND i am all for it..:)

This property has been a blight for far too long - I am happy to hear that someone has stepped up to bring back this fun family activity - plus batting cages - genius.

Good luck and please vote for the youth of Ojai and the smart design of a long neglected prominent property.

This property has been a blight for far too long - I am happy to hear that someone has stepped up to bring back this fun family activity - plus batting cages - genius.

Good luck and please vote for the youth of Ojai and the smart design of a long neglected prominent property.

I think that the biggest hurdle will be the strident voices of neighbors who have thus far protested any project there, preferring to live next to a blighted building.

As anyone who knows anything at all knows, bowling is one of the most slippery pathways to Hell. The lanes themselves represent this path, and the balls symbolize Satan's testicles. The shoe rental counter is a metaphor for slavery, and the coffee shop and bar represent sloth and gluttony.

It is through sheer force of will that a small but devout number of us have managed to keep this building unoccupied over the years against all of the mad and never-ending clamoring of all of the thousands and thousands of people who have loudly demanded each day that this evil charnel house be brought back to unholy life. We are as Ojai's Knights Templar, and we will die gutted and burning on unhallowed ground before we allow the arcane and filthy rituals to resume. Make no mistake; this is not about "fun", this is about your immortal soul.

Do you believe that it is by mere happenstance, bad business practices, or because of mundane economic realities that the Evil Temple has remained shuttered and boarded up all of these years? If you do, then you may well be beyond saving.

Yeah, bowling. I like it, get it done. As for BMX, how about the vacant lot on the same side of the street across from the new sushi joint. Seems we could rent the plot and move some dirt around and viola.

Viola?

#17 How old are you? You sound like a grumpy old man. I'd rather have something put to use, and land put to use, then have that P.O.S. eyesore just sitting there looking like @ss. Kids need somthing to do, if you haven't noticed. (Obviously you don't care either) People like you slow progress and thwart community support for issues that revolve around others besides yourself. Lighten up, and go have some fun for once in your life, it sounds like you need it.

we don't do the name-calling thing on this blog. I think re-doing the bowling alley is a great idea.

obviously #17 is employing some satire East-Ender. Don't get too excited.

And, voi·là - used to call attention, to express satisfaction or approval, or to suggest an appearance as if by magic.

(n) viola: a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower.

When in doubt #23, go with context.

#20 is calling number #17 grumpy?

#17 -- you have some fun, too, OK?

SPK wins the Satire Detection Pin for this thread.

#17 -- you have some fun, too, OK?

When in doubt, go with context :) (tip o' the hat to SPK)

That should have read: #20 -- you have some fun, too, OK?

There is already a bowling alley in Oxnard - go there - don't need this in Ojai enough trouble already - will just turn into a gang hangout and nobody will want to go there

there is already community for mean people in ________, go there...

I'm glad the bowling alley is coming back!