Bob Jewett said:

Any motion recording of Mosconi playing back near his prime was on film. All of the clips I've seen were staged recreations of events, like beating Ponzi with a 5-rail kick shot, or exhibitions like the match he lost to Caras with the immensely bothersome idiot of a referee who pointed at each called ball.

I'd bet against any real tournament footage of Mosconi existing from prior to 1960.

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Bob, I too saw that staged footage you refer to. But some did in fact exist just not that much of it. I remember seeing some actual footage or clips of it in the early 60's of Mosconi playing in tournaments. Again what I remember seeing were just short clips of Mosconi tournament footage. I suspect you and I are roughly the same age so it may have been when we were just young kids. The motion picture camera was invented long before the prime time Mosconi. Hard to believe that nothing was ever filmed of him during that time.

Biloxi Boy said:

Nearly the same story, except young white men with long ass hair, having to stop at the Red Neck Inn (the last chance before a dry county). "Oh yeah, you can get your beers, but you can get your damn asses out, too." Nothing like a near frozen Bud on an un-air conditioned July night.

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I know what you mean! Both being a furriner and cold beer. I knew I was in a foreign land when I stopped in West Texas. Really got in deep crap on the back side of the main island of Hawaii.

Any time you have worked hard and are dry a very cold beer is special. Maybe the best ever was the beer at the dirt track on Wednesday afternoon. The track would open for practice and testing. Generally dry as a popcorn fart and the inside of my mouth would cake with dust and dirt. Didn't help any that I was often laughing out loud as I drove, even in actual races! Anyway, the track owner would open up the beer box where the beer had been chilling for days, since the last weekend. The first mouthful turned to mud and hit the ground. The second mouthful with flecks of ice in it went down with the rest of that can to follow. The second can I slowed down enough to taste it. One more and I was wet enough to take the race car out again!

I used to help people move and do all kinds of chores. I priced out my services by how many cases of beer it was gonna cost!

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If you didn't get the invoice then you must have sent the wrong email address. I also pm'd you my paypal address on here. Anyhow, it's still for sale and I'm done with you. Enjoy your Willard and keep off this thread if you're not a buyer.

Ok, after a nuts’o work week, back to better pursuits.

Learned from the 8’ and figured a better way to do the cushion facings. Made a tape template, cut a oversized piece of rubber, glued, trimmed with a razor blade and finish sanded with the dremel. Worked like a charm. Now to get the rail cloth on tonight.

Filled in the old holes on the frame and we are primed to complete the setup and be playing by tomorrow night!

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