History
Oak Bowl was built in 1956 by Woody Cockrell and his partner. Woody was born in Texas and got stationed on NAS Whidbey many, many years ago. He ended up retiring here and building a bowling alley. The bowling alley was built originally an 8 lane house and over the years it has gone through many remodels and went up to 16 lanes and currently down to 12 lanes with the other 4 lanes turned into a BIG arcade. The alley was taken over quite a few years ago by Woody's son, Tom Cockrell, when Woody retired from Oak Bowl. In the 80's Tom was talked into putting in a pizza restaurant called