BOWLED OVER NO EXPENSE SPARED IN RENOVATION.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer CANYON COUNTRY- It's out with the old and in with the new at the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, Lanes bowling alley in Canyon Country where glitz glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. is the rule and even the bowling balls will glow in the dark. ``The look is very '80s, and we want to bring in 2001,'' said new owner Tom Cristi, who took over in February 2001. The wood paneling is going, along with the rest of the humdrum decor. Cristi is investing nearly $700,000 to refurbish re·fur·bish tr.v. re·fur·bished, re·fur·bish·ing, re·fur·bish·es To make clean, bright, or fresh again; renovate. re·fur the entire place from the bathrooms to the lanes and the gutters. Even the shoes will be brand new. The renovations will be completed in the middle of June. ``We're glitzing it all up,'' Cristi said. ``We're going to be as bright and glitzy glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. as we can.'' Cristi envisioned a ``Las Vegas'' look with glow-in-the-dark carpet and furniture throughout the bowling alley for the state-of-the-art light and sound show called ``Thunder Alley Thunder Alley was an American television program, a situation comedy which ran for a season and a half (from 9 March 1994 until 4 July 1995) on the ABC Television Network. .'' Even the new bowling balls will glow. Cristi said one of his main objectives is to be family and community-oriented by offering families, local schools, corporations and organizations hosting fund-raisers incentives to come to his bowling alley. ``My feeling is I have to get as involved with the community as I can, because to get people to come here you have to give back,'' said Cristi, who is no stranger to the bowling alley business. He ran the Sports Center Bowl in Studio City from 1973 to 1996. Cristi already has a deal with local PTAs, where he charges $10 per person for three games of bowling and gives half of it to the school. He also has created new promotions like a family package, party packages, and ``Quartermania'' on Mondays where one game costs two quarters, shoe rental is one quarter and a soda is one quarter. And he has added three new party rooms and made plans to build a patio patio In Spanish and Latin American architecture, a courtyard open to the sky within a building. A Spanish development of the Roman atrium, it is comparable to the Italian cortile but provides more seclusion, possibly due to Moorish custom. The patio of the contemporary U.S. area with a canopy. In a new partnership, Vincenzo's Pizzeria will be the food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. operator at the bowling alley with its own sports bar and grill. The bar and grill will have eight television sets, which all will be tuned to sports events. Cristi has a vision for his new bowling alley, and he is not going to stop until he achieves it. ``I want people to come in and think ... `unbelieva-bowl!''' he said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1) Worker Dave Clark evens out the surface of a lane Monday morning as part of a major renovation of Santa Clarita Lanes. (2) Chris Porter Chris Porter may refer to:
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