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The Best Ever List of Pool Nicknames

Island Drive
L.S. Dennis said:
When I was around 12 years old my father owned a liquor store directly across the street from Jimmy and Dorothy Wise's pool room in Redwood City Ca. named Sequoia Billiards. It was only a matter of time before I found myself crossing the street to see what was going on in this place with all the clicking noises of balls going on all the time. In there I was introduced to the wonderful world of pool and its characters. Everyone in there had nicknames, George 'The Dry Dog' Wilbur, Rick 'The Indian' Sachen, Dee 'The Fish' Dimitri (this one really fit to a tee) Jim 'Sewage Rack' Stewart, Paul "Bone Rack' Tessure in time everyone got tagged with some kind of nickname whether we wanted it or not! This was around 1962 if my memory serves me correctly. Great times and memories.
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Yep a great time to get hooked on the game.... as a kid, hanging around with older men and NOT your dad :).
Now with bar tables mostly and the liquor environment, the 60's setting is not as prevalent.
Kids not allowed usually. Some places set hours for kids.
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jayman
When I joined this forum 90% of all I.D. questions involved an unmarked 1970's Adam cue. Nice build good looking and no mark. Now most people know what they are. I don't mind helping when I can or scratching my head on some others. An up and coming number of people are finding cues that were not much to begin with but they still care enough to try to unravel the puzzle. Sometimes it is very interesting and more and more it's a 80's 90's P.O.S. I welcome them all and I think if it isn't a pain in the ass to do, it it may be a great separate space. Putting all the unknowns in one spot could be very interesting.
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Better than Phenolic

jimmyco
cueball2010 said:
I think you can just talk about which break tip you like best.

My post was because I was about to pull the trigger on a Raven break cue... but I realized that they are standard deflection carbon shafts. Probably stiffer than wood, but not any better than a 80 dollar CF break shaft. So, I am having second thoughts.
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Never said I liked them best.
Thought I would mention them, have read nothing but good on them right here by those who's opinion I trust.

I'm not into that as noted by my sig line
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Better than Phenolic

cueball2010
jimmyco said:
I didn't see the Picone White Diamond on your list.

They are not leather, layered fiber. Safe for cue ball.
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I think you can just talk about which break tip you like best.

My post was because I was about to pull the trigger on a Raven break cue... but I realized that they are standard deflection carbon shafts. Probably stiffer than wood, but not any better than a 80 dollar CF break shaft. So, I am having second thoughts.
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