Article: Builder: Facebook group won't save Palo Alto's last bowling alley

Rex Golobic, whose family has run bowling alleys across the West Coast since 1937, doesn't want to close the Palo Alto Bowl.

Daniel Mart, a local bowler who has started a Facebook group to save the 50-year-old landmark, certainly doesn't want to see it close. Neither, presumably, do the 1,825 people who had joined the Facebook group as of Thursday -- nor the 578 who had signed an online petition to preserve the lanes.

But Golobic doesn't own the building on El Camino Real, and bowlers don't make land-use policy. The developers who bought Palo Alto's last bowling alley two years ago with the intention of building a four-story hotel and 26 condominiums there say they're unlikely to change ...

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