YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – West Side Bowl will remain closed Thursday as it cleans up from flooding that occurred during Wednesday evening’s downpour.
The popular music venue-bar, which also has a bowling alley, pizza shop and record store, had to shut down at about 7 p.m. Wednesday after water started seeping in under the entrance doors and into the barroom and the music venue.
A crew from Servpro will be at the business Thursday to clean it and get it ready to reopen, said Nate Offerdahl, owner of West Side Bowl.
The bar, bowling lanes, kitchen and upstairs music venue will reopen Friday, he said, but it will take a little longer before the downstairs music venue reopens.
The only part of the entire building that is carpeted is the area around the bowling lanes, but only a small segment of it got wet from the deluge. The water instead remained in the bar and music venue areas, or poured into the downstairs, which houses a smaller music venue.
This is not the first time that a sudden deluge caused rainwater to enter the building, Offerdahl said. He noted that the building’s storm sewer backup prevention system worked as intended, and the water that entered the building was rainwater.
While Thursday’s concerts are canceled, a hard-rock show featuring the bands Whatever, Beast Killer and Bastardous will take place in the main venue Friday.
A hip-hop show featuring Blurry Boys had been scheduled for the downstairs room.
Pictured at top: A Servpro crew was at West Side Bowl on Thursday morning to clean up from Wednesday’s flooding.