Least expensive price per hour you can remember
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What is the least expensive table price per hour you can remember?
I remember when .01 per minute was expensive!
I can remember .01 per minute also,,,,,,,seemed expensive to me as a youngster in the early 70's.
when i was younger it was $2.00 a hour that was sun-fri then friday night and saturday was $3.00 a hour. now there are places you can play for free out here fast eddies has a couple free days a week maybe more now but the tables are the worst in town. white diamond has free sundays till 5pm and there tables are ok. just shows you how bad things are you have to give away table time to try and make up for it on drinks and food.
Can't remember that far back. We are at $10 at one hall and $12 and change at another for wrecked up Connelly tables with poor lighting.
60 cents an hour or .01 a minute was the price when I started playing in Jamestown, Ohio in the early 1960's.
Back in the 50's, the owner of the pool room in my home town, use to walk around and rack every game. The price per game was .05 cents.
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Wow...what memories! When I'd travel down south to play, someone would rack for you----ten cents per rack to rack 6 ball and 15 cents for 9 ball.
Seems the rack man always had just one good hand and a hook on the other...or, had a patch over one eye. It was always someone with a disability.
I was good with a dollar an hour.:grin:
Wow...what memories! When I'd travel down south to play, someone would rack for you----ten cents per rack to rack 6 ball and 15 cents for 9 ball.
Seems the rack man always had just one good hand and a hook on the other...or, had a patch over one eye. It was always someone with a disability.
I was good with a dollar an hour.:grin:
$1.25 an hour is the lowest I remember. The hall I go to now is $3.00 per hour or $10.00 from noon to six or six to midnight. They have 1 GC1, 3 GC2's, 1 GC3, and 3 bar boxes. And a 12 foot snooker table.
Willis's Pool Hall at Grand and Victor, St. Louis, MO. $0.60 per hour or $0.10 per game, I know I was the rack boy back in '63.
Those were the days. :smile:
John
Those were the days. :smile:
John
I can remember .90 per hour at Sports-O-Rama in mattydale, NY in the early 60's.
We played straight pool and there were beads on the wire over every table. Most pool halls don't have beads and I can't find anyone else but me that knows how to keep score with them.
We played 9 ball, a quarter on the 9 and a dime on the 5.
8 Ball was only played in a bar.
great days
Kim
We played straight pool and there were beads on the wire over every table. Most pool halls don't have beads and I can't find anyone else but me that knows how to keep score with them.
We played 9 ball, a quarter on the 9 and a dime on the 5.
8 Ball was only played in a bar.
great days
Kim
1962 .50 per hour. Fast forward to today and at Felt Billiards here in Colorado you can play until 4 PM on new 9 foot Diamonds for $2.50 an hour. And if you play on the Gold Crowns it's $2.00 an hour.
Not as cheap or long ago as some of the geezers here ( 
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I remember $1.50/$2.50 an hour back in the early/mid 90's.
I mainly played bar boxes back then and most bars had .25 cent/game tables, with 3 or 4 free pool nights a week.
Doesn't seem like that long ago now, oddly. I remember me and some friends walking into a new (at the time) pool hall that had $5/hour tables around 1994/95 and we laughed and turned around and walked out.
Edit: looking at some of the prices from the 70's posted here, I think pool hourly rates really haven't gotten that bad compared to some other things. For instance, just 20 or so years ago (1992-ish) I was getting leaded (!) gas for .79 or .89 cents a gallon. $5 would be enough to get you and some friends out and about...even with the crappy-mileage car I drove then. Now? $5 worth of gas might get me to the grocery store and back. Maybe.
), but: I remember $1.50/$2.50 an hour back in the early/mid 90's.
I mainly played bar boxes back then and most bars had .25 cent/game tables, with 3 or 4 free pool nights a week.
Doesn't seem like that long ago now, oddly. I remember me and some friends walking into a new (at the time) pool hall that had $5/hour tables around 1994/95 and we laughed and turned around and walked out.
Edit: looking at some of the prices from the 70's posted here, I think pool hourly rates really haven't gotten that bad compared to some other things. For instance, just 20 or so years ago (1992-ish) I was getting leaded (!) gas for .79 or .89 cents a gallon. $5 would be enough to get you and some friends out and about...even with the crappy-mileage car I drove then. Now? $5 worth of gas might get me to the grocery store and back. Maybe.
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In the front of Evon's Pool Room in NYC, the old men played 8-Ball for .05 cents per game and Evon racked each game. In the back room, he had two 9 foot tables where my buddies and I played. He charged .25 cents/hour. This goes back to the late 40's and early 50's. I'd go to the movies on Saturday where admission was .10 cents and a small bag of popcorn was .05 cents. They played double features then with a News reel and at least one cartoon. Sometimes a serial.
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