Many of us who went to Ozz during its heyday were oblivious to any problems that maybe have precipitated the club's unceremonious ending. Three years later, Bodie would serve time in federal prison for failing to report door fees to the club while it was in operation. Bodie signed the demolition papers, and in October 2005, CalTrans bulldozed Ozz. When the city sold the strip of freeway-adjacent land for development, the building that housed Ozz and others around it were condemned. The queer supper and dance club operated in Buena Park off the Beach Boulevard exit from the Santa Ana Freeway, a centralized location near Knotts Berry Farm that proved to be key to Ozz's success for years as one of the few LGBTQ+ bars in Orange County and greater Los Angeles outside of the more famous 'gay' scene of West Hollywood. Rene Boudewijn "Bodie" Kohler owned Ozz from 1990 until 2005. Or the shiny halter top and new heels that made you sparkle on the dance floor. Maybe your outfits: hat-to-the back, polo and cargo shorts sagging with a chunky Nokia cell phone and disposable camera, if you brought one. If you remember Ozz Supper Club - popularly known as Ozz - in Buena Park, California, you remember all of this and then some: maybe your first queer kiss or sultry same-sex dance, or a bad breakup on the smoking patio or the cute girl who bought you a beer and got your number, but never called. The crowds, the friends new and old, the rush of it all. The piano lounge, video games and pool tables.
The butch bouncer with the power to grant or deny coveted drink wristbands. Clandestine pre-parties in crowded cars, the line stretching along a dark wall lit up in rainbow colors. The roomy parking lot adjacent to the convenient motel next door. The neon sign that teased us from the freeway.