Pool Hall Photos From All Over.

Cool pic of Boston from 1906. Didn't know where else to post it, but it features a pool room (2-1/2 cents per cue)!

Hi-Res: http://www.shorpy.com/node/12529?size=_original

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feedtheworm said:
I just stumbled across this one.
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That is so cool, how they made their own game with basically no materials. And the breaker is left-handed. Love that photo. :smile:

Just imagine how well they would shoot if they had decent equipment.
 
Picture of pool room at Camp David where the President and his entourage can break balls and enjoy a casual game of pocket billiards. I wonder how often Obama shoots pool there.

At least the photo shows an 8-ball rack with the 8-ball in the proper place.

AzBilliards Gold Star of the Day goes out to who can name this table.
 

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Don't care about any politician or how they spend their time.... just another thief. But I like Mickey McCready! :groucho:
 
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Having a coffee before starting my to do list and came across this thread. First off, great pics. Here are a few I've posted years ago and I apologize if they are duplicated from some where else in this thread (I was only able to get to page 20).
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Last one, then I better get some work done. I realize two of these are not of rooms, but I think you will get a kick out of them.
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Hanoi, Vietnam

Pool is getting very popular in Vietnam. I played last year at the Boom Billiard Club in Hanoi (57 Duong Quang Ham, Cau Giay). They were very gracious, even giving me a complimentary VIP card and letting me play for free. The owner (unfortunately I didn’t get his name, but he is pictured on the left below) even took me on his motorbike to another billiard club he just opened. I was treated like a royal visitor!

I’m in Vietnam again now but won’t have a chance to go to it this year. However, another billiard room is opening right down the street from my hotel, so I may have a chance on the last day to snap a few pictures.

The professional player pictured below is Phạm Hoài Nguyên (from a tournament--I just found the photo on the web). We played for an hour or so on a very tight table which really made me look like the c-player that I am, but he was very gracious and called me a “professional amateur”!

I highly recommend anyone spending time in Hanoi to check out the Boom Billiard Club.

Here is the link to the Flickr Gallery of more pics of the club:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/boom_billiards_club/
 

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JAM said:
Picture of pool room at Camp David where the President and his entourage can break balls and enjoy a casual game of pocket billiards. I wonder how often Obama shoots pool there.

At least the photo shows an 8-ball rack with the 8-ball in the proper place.

AzBilliards Gold Star of the Day goes out to who can name this table.
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Brunswick Gibson is my guess...looks like a modern Anniversary.

http://forums.azbilliards.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=223834&stc=1&d=1335611695
 
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pt109 said:
Brunswick Gibson is my guess...looks like a modern Anniversary.

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There was a billiard table in the White House during the administrations of several recent presidents. And when President Eisenhower established Camp David, it was furnished with not one, but four billiard tables. Every President from Eisenhower, including Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Clinton, has used those tables.

The one you are seeing in the picture, I think, by George, you're correct!

I hereby bequeath PT109 to receive the AzBilliards Gold Star on Tuesday, August 28, 2012.
 

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Mark Twain’s Billiards Room



This billiards room took up the entire top floor of his three-story Hartford, CT house where he lived from 1871-1891. The room was off limits to Twain’s wife and kids and reserved for Twain and his male guests to shoot pool, smoke cigars, and imbibe spirits. Twain also used the room as a man retreat, a place to write and hide from the domestic chaos on the other floors of the house. Twain explained the reason this special man space was needed in his home:


“There ought to be a room in this house to swear in. It’s dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that…Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.”
 
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