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scene in episode 10 or 11 at a pool table...


the actor is using an obvious stainless steel joint 2 piece cue

I thought that the 2 piece cue and the SS joint were both 1940/50's inventions attributed to Balabushka and Rambow..

is the series correct?? they are known for getting their facts straight....

was there a SS jointed 2 piece cue available during prohibition??
 
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softshot said:
scene in episode 10 or 11 at a pool table...


the actor is using an obvious stainless steel joint 2 piece cue

I thought that the 2 piece cue and the SS joint were both 1940/50's inventions attributed to Balabushka and Rambow..

is the series correct?? they are known for getting their facts straight....

was there a SS jointed 2 piece cue available during prohibition??
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Here is a thread about this very topic when the series first came out: "Dont' Swallow a Cueball."

I think somebody immediately recognized the cue as a Dufferin house cue. :o
 
I happen to know for a fact as I spoke to Tony Robles the Technical Advisor that the actor who played Arnold Rothstein was given that cue as a gift from Tony and he loved it so much he wanted to use it during the show. You can also see the poison logo on the shaft where it normally is by the joint.
 
Charlie,
*serious face, and holding a smoking pipe*

You honestly think the producers of the show would overlook a minute details such as a historically inaccurate pool cue? Next thing you have me believe is that there were post-flag Masters on that pool table.

Don't you know Poison was early import brand from China? It was popular with opium traders, and shady gangsters in Shanghai. Hence the name Poison. Law abiding citizens stayed with Brunswick, while shady types like Rothstein's character used Poison as a fashion statement, like Gangsta gold chains, droopy pants, and DUB rims.

:D

ForumGhost516 said:
I happen to know for a fact as I spoke to Tony Robles the Technical Advisor that the actor who played Arnold Rothstein was given that cue as a gift from Tony and he loved it so much he wanted to use it during the show. You can also see the poison logo on the shaft where it normally is by the joint.
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My brother is in town from California for Easter, and he doesn't have HBO at home,
so we watched the entire HBO Boardwalk Empire shows, all 12 of them, yesterday. :embarrassed2:

I keep humming that theme song in my head today: Boardwalk Empire!

Season 2 starts up in Fall 2011. Actor Mike Zegen from "Rescue Me" will join the cast as Bugsy Siegel. :)
 

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JAM said:
My brother is in town from California for Easter, and he doesn't have HBO at home,
so we watched the entire HBO Boardwalk Empire shows, all 12 of them, yesterday. :embarrassed2:

I keep humming that theme song in my head today: Boardwalk Empire!

Season 2 starts up in Fall 2011. Actor Mike Zegen from "Rescue Me" will join the cast as Bugsy Siegel. :)
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Really enjoyed the series; however, the theme song seemed a little incongruent to me. A show about the prohibition period you would think would have a jazz or ragtime theme piece.
 
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Really enjoyed the series; however, the theme song seemed a little incongruent to me. A show about the prohibition period you would think would have a jazz or ragtime theme piece.
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Best theme song on TV right now is from the The Chicago Code, performed by Chicago native Billy Corgan.
 
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Best theme song on TV right now is from the The Chicago Code.:grin-square:
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No way, Jose. I gotta go with "Justified": Hard Times to Come.

On this lonely road, trying to make it home
Doing it by my lonesome pissed off who wants some
I’m fighting for my soul, god get at your boy
You try to bogard fall back I go hard
On this lonely road, trying to make it home
Doing it by my lonesome pissed off who wants some

I see them long hard times to come
 
Jam, we agree to disagree on this one. :wink:

Now this is music

I don't think a full length version is out yet but I'm all over it when it does. Would be great road music.

Happy Easter, btw. :grin:
 
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Did you notice how much his tip went up in the air when shooting? I would send him to Scott Lee to work on this. spf
 
I love this series very much, i've watched every single second of it, and I can't wait until season 2 is out, anyways on topic, I've saw this scene your talking about , there were few scenes other than this one on the pool table, and I laughed on that scene because I saw a flaw, maybe i'm wrong, but I kinda sworn at that moment that the shaft he's holding is a cuetec one, either the old Vortex shaft, or the Thunderbolt, I know the look of the trademark on the shaft, I owned one before, and I said to myself, "Lol they forgot that the shaft is a new one and can't be from 1920(hence the series) they were better off making a maple wood shaft to make it more real" But then again, its a show, not about pool, so the director must of said, "Oh yea no one will really know about the shaft just use it"
 
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