Hollywood Billiards- The End???

westcoast said:
What's the reputation of the House of Billiards in Santa Monica?
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Good 1 pocket action, but the tables are too close together.
The food is ... well ... let's say ... something you wouldn't go out of your way to find.
But there are lots of fine restaurants real close.
 
bamadog said:
Good 1 pocket action, but the tables are too close together.
The food is ... well ... let's say ... something you wouldn't go out of your way to find.
But there are lots of fine restaurants real close.
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Fromin's Deli right across the street, been there forever. Chopped liver, matzah ball soup, whitefish! All my favorites! YUMMMM
 
Anybody know what's going on at Hollywood?

I'm tempted to drive over there and peek but I'm afraid I'll see Fabio in a disco cage wearing just a billiard glove - that would just ruin my day.

Chris
 
Yeah, that area was really sketchy at that time. Great action there though. A lot of street hustlers that could play their asses off. Hollywood stars too.
Had an old school look to the place.
 
jay helfert said:
Danny is the world's oldest hippy! :grin:
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Funny thing is that he seems to wear the same outfit all the time- all black. A friend of mine refers to him as the "Creature of the Night". Seems to shoot 1 pocket really well. He seems to live at HOB- I don't know if I've ever been there and not seen him.

I practice at the HOB in Santa Monica, but don't gamble. I'm simply a recreational league player. I just find the whole hustling scene fascinating. Would love to do a sociological and psychological study on it.

I wonder why 1 pocket and 3 cushion have become the dominant games there? You'd think rotation games and 14.1 would get some play.
 
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westcoast said:
Funny thing is that he seems to wear the same outfit all the time- all black. A friend of mine refers to him as the "Creature of the Night". Seems to shoot 1 pocket really well. He seems to live at HOB- I don't know if I've ever been there and not seen him.

I practice at the HOB in Santa Monica, but don't gamble. I'm simply a recreational league player. I just find the whole hustling scene fascinating. Would love to do a sociological and psychological study on it.

I wonder why 1 pocket and 3 cushion have become the dominant games there? You'd think rotation games and 14.1 would get some play.
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I don't get up that way too often, but I played Tall Phil in there last week. He had to give me 9-7. I got lucky and broke even with him. :smile:
 
westcoast said:
I practice at the HOB in Santa Monica, but don't gamble. I'm simply a recreational league player. I just find the whole hustling scene fascinating. Would love to do a sociological and psychological study on it.
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It's already been done.
Check out "Hustlers, Beats, and Others" by Ned Polsky.

Great book on the pool hall culture in the first half of the 20th C.

"The opening examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them
wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America's social
structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival.
The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation, pool hustling,
describing the hustler's work situation and career from recruitment to retirement.
In revealing how pool hustlers, although dedicated wholly to a vocation that merely
breaks unenforced gambling laws, frequently supplement their income by means
of outright felonies, the author develops a new theory of "crime as moonlighting."
The third chapter sharply criticizes our criminology textbooks for avoiding the study
of uncaught adult criminals in their natural environments.
It demonstrates such research to be both necessary and practical
with career felons as well as moonlighters."
 
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bamadog said:
It's already been done.
Check out "Hustlers, Beats, and Others" by Ned Polski.

Great book on the pool hall culture in the first half of the 20th C.

"The opening examines the alleged causes for the decline of American poolrooms and finds them
wanting, traces the rise and fall of poolrooms to historical changes in America's social
structure, and cogently dissects the recent poolroom revival.
The second chapter, reports a field study of a deviant occupation, pool hustling,
describing the hustler's work situation and career from recruitment to retirement.
In revealing how pool hustlers, although dedicated wholly to a vocation that merely
breaks unenforced gambling laws, frequently supplement their income by means
of outright felonies, the author develops a new theory of "crime as moonlighting."
The third chapter sharply criticizes our criminology textbooks for avoiding the study
of uncaught adult criminals in their natural environments.
It demonstrates such research to be both necessary and practical
with career felons as well as moonlighters."
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I'll check that book out

I was wondering if a more modern study has been done
 
westcoast said:
Funny thing is that he seems to wear the same outfit all the time- all black. A friend of mine refers to him as the "Creature of the Night"...
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Not only is Danny Shades one of the L.A. pool scene's most interesting characters, he is a legend in the L.A. music scene.
 
I ran across several photos of HB that I took earlier this year. I hope to have the time to get them up asap.
 
I played Danny Shades some one pocket at Hollywood after the seminole event, so I don't know when he was 86'ed but if it is true it must of been recent.
I never once had a problem with Danny, and couldn't see him getting out of line.
 
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