pool has changed
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People love to watch westerns. The old west actually lasted a little more than from the end of the civil war to the turn of the century. And came the automobile in a few more years people would be flying in planes.
I see a little bit of a parallel in the pool world to the Old West. While pool had been around for many years I think that the availability of the automobile it put pool players on wheels and a new era was born.
I think this era may have existed from around the 1920s to maybe the 1980s. Within that era and time frame existed a host of characters. Famous, infamous and many little known except in the subculture of pool.
It's easy to romanticize the past as with the Old West and in my case pool. It really was a different time in pool though from today and I feel glad to have had a chance to at least glimpse a small piece of it.
I see a little bit of a parallel in the pool world to the Old West. While pool had been around for many years I think that the availability of the automobile it put pool players on wheels and a new era was born.
I think this era may have existed from around the 1920s to maybe the 1980s. Within that era and time frame existed a host of characters. Famous, infamous and many little known except in the subculture of pool.
It's easy to romanticize the past as with the Old West and in my case pool. It really was a different time in pool though from today and I feel glad to have had a chance to at least glimpse a small piece of it.