How old were you when you saw your first pool table and where was it? Did it make an impression on you?
Pool Memories
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I was about 5 years old. My dad took me to the game room at the university of Houston. He must have seen that I was captivated, because I remember him asking me if I wanted to play pool, and yes I did!
They have bowling, arcades an ping pong. I spent some time there in my 20’s, but the only thing i remember from that time I was 5 was the pool balls.
They have bowling, arcades an ping pong. I spent some time there in my 20’s, but the only thing i remember from that time I was 5 was the pool balls.
Mine was in a bowling alley the summer before 1st grade, so I was 5. My parents were in a Friday night league. The single table was in the snack bar section. I remember, clearly, being mesmerized by the balls. The colors, the movement, the sounds of them clicking together. Yeah... I was hooked. Instantly.
My uncle had an antique table. I watched my older cousins play. Hooked for life.
I was about 7-8.
I was about 7-8.
Feel free to continue posting about first time seeing a pool table but I'll also ask if you remember the first time you ran out from the break ( 8 or 9 ball ). For me, I'm not sure it was actually the *first* time, but it IS the first time I recall being aware of it. I was practicing 9 ball, breaking each time. Two very good local players were sitting nearby, watching. After one rack, one of the two, Tommy Hill, said to me, "Mike... you just ran that rack." I said, "Really? Wow... lemme see if I can do it again." I had no idea 'til he said something.
My uncle had a big table since I was pretty little I do remember doing the proverbial stand on box thing lol.
But later like 8-10 I would be at my grandmothers, two blocks down was my cousins and our buddy jay and he had a big mud rock cueball 8’ barbox.....that’s really how I learnt to move Loretta likes I do....cuz she was a big ole fat girl once
Ya couldn’t pull her so you’d push her round
We played a lot on that table growing up and I’d go to my uncles to shoot all weekend on his gc 3. Lol he gave me a 18 ounce white earl Strickland cuetek....I loved that pos hahahaha
But we used to get down at jays that was fun.
When I was ten I whipped some kid at the skating rink for ten and he got so made he threw the cb and it bounced off a ball hit the table and cushion and cracked my head.....
So I blackmailed him outa more cash when he begged me not to tell his mom
. #fish
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But later like 8-10 I would be at my grandmothers, two blocks down was my cousins and our buddy jay and he had a big mud rock cueball 8’ barbox.....that’s really how I learnt to move Loretta likes I do....cuz she was a big ole fat girl once
Ya couldn’t pull her so you’d push her round
We played a lot on that table growing up and I’d go to my uncles to shoot all weekend on his gc 3. Lol he gave me a 18 ounce white earl Strickland cuetek....I loved that pos hahahaha
But we used to get down at jays that was fun.
When I was ten I whipped some kid at the skating rink for ten and he got so made he threw the cb and it bounced off a ball hit the table and cushion and cracked my head.....
So I blackmailed him outa more cash when he begged me not to tell his mom
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Great story, thanks G.G.
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About 10 or a little younger, my friends father had a huge 1920 era Pool table wedged in their basement . There was no way to shoot off of 3 of the rails with the walls 2 feet away. It didn't stop us from poking balls around on it and we had many fun filled afternoons. I remember the clay balls also many with cracks in them.
About 10 or a little younger, my friends father had a huge 1920 era Pool table wedged in their basement . There was no way to shoot off of 3 of the rails with the walls 2 feet away. It didn't stop us from poking balls around on it and we had many fun filled afternoons. I remember the clay balls also many with cracks in them.
We moved into a house when I was 9. My dad made them an offer to leave their pool table, so they did. My dad and I spent a lot of hours on that table. That's when my love affair began. I still have that same table in my basement.
Embarrassing to say, the first time a ran a rack of 8 or 9 ball was in college. But once I got that first one, they all started coming.
Embarrassing to say, the first time a ran a rack of 8 or 9 ball was in college. But once I got that first one, they all started coming.
Yup... practice makes perfect.
I was 9 or 10. There was a little dive beer bar about a mile from our house in northern Wisconsin that had an old beat up bar box. My buddy and I would stop there for a bottle of pop occasionally while riding our bikes around the countryside. One day the owner was playing pool with another old guy, and we watched them while we drank our sodas. After they finished their games the owner showed us some basics and let us shoot a while on his quarters. I was hooked, and after that I always made sure to have a quarter or two to plug into the table when we went there.
Things were different back then (late 60s) and a couple unescorted kids were perfectly safe in a little country bar in the middle of the day, and welcome too, as long as we behaved ourselves.
<---- Glad I grew up when and where I did. :smile:
Things were different back then (late 60s) and a couple unescorted kids were perfectly safe in a little country bar in the middle of the day, and welcome too, as long as we behaved ourselves.
<---- Glad I grew up when and where I did. :smile:
How about the first time you ever won any $$$? I remember mine.
Amen, Chris... amen.
I was about 7 years old, my grandfather had taken me to a ball game and he wanted to stop and have a beer on the way home.
They had a pool table and let me roll the balls around on it and I was hooked.
They had a pool table and let me roll the balls around on it and I was hooked.
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The first time I won money I was 13yrs old. A Poolroom opened in the neighborhood that catered to under 18 yr old kids. The law then stated you had to be 18 to play.
A guy from school was teaching me the game of 9 ball by relieving me of my lunch money everyday. We were playing .25 cents a game and I would lose a buck and have to quit so I had some money to pay my time.
Finally one day I win the first game and my teacher Jack looked like he saw a ghost instead of paying right up like we had been doing he insisted we play another game.I won that too, that's when he starts feeling his back pocket and saying his wallet was lost .
Bottom line Jack was so confident he would win he came in with air barrels. I ended up paying all the time and having to wait over a week to get my lousy .50 winning and his end of the time. Luckily for me that never happened again to this day. Looking back it is funny at age 13 I was fuming.
The first time I won money I was 13yrs old. A Poolroom opened in the neighborhood that catered to under 18 yr old kids. The law then stated you had to be 18 to play.
A guy from school was teaching me the game of 9 ball by relieving me of my lunch money everyday. We were playing .25 cents a game and I would lose a buck and have to quit so I had some money to pay my time.
Finally one day I win the first game and my teacher Jack looked like he saw a ghost instead of paying right up like we had been doing he insisted we play another game.I won that too, that's when he starts feeling his back pocket and saying his wallet was lost .
Bottom line Jack was so confident he would win he came in with air barrels. I ended up paying all the time and having to wait over a week to get my lousy .50 winning and his end of the time. Luckily for me that never happened again to this day. Looking back it is funny at age 13 I was fuming.
Thanks franco.
I don't really remember the first time I won any money but I *do* remember the first time I won ( what I considered to be at the time ) a LOT of money. I was 14 and I won 100 dollars. I felt like I could buy the world...