Eddie Felson...TK6??

David Marcus

David Marcus

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After having watched COM for the billionth time,I still don't get the significance of Eddies license plate?.....Can anybody help...TK6?
 
I thought it was the 6th cadillac he'd bought selling knockoff Wild Turkey. Just a guess.
 
I think the only theory that made sense to me is that it stood for "take the 6", never seen any other better explanation from anyone involved with the movie.
 
I think this has been discussed many many times here and elsewere and I don't recall any accurate theory. Would love to know too.
 
See a few other suggestions. I like the 6th caddy bought by TurKey. Or maybe "Turkey King 6"?

Google found another idea... the car was maybe loaned by a great straight pool player in the area where the movie was filmed... Tom Karabotsos.
 
Yeah I heard the caddy in the movie was someone's car and it was loaned to film the movie...That was the guys lic plate not sure if it had any meaning..I think i saw a post by Freddy the Beard that knew the story a long while back
 
just talked to Tom K

CreeDo said:
See a few other suggestions. I like the 6th caddy bought by TurKey. Or maybe "Turkey King 6"?

Google found another idea... the car was maybe loaned by a great straight pool player in the area where the movie was filmed... Tom Karabotsos.
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It wasn't him. Still waiting for that call.

looking forward to it......
 
Maybe it had something to do with the music editor of the movie, Todd Kasow. Not sure what the 6 would stand for though.
 
vapoolplayer said:
Did anyone catch the name of the liquor he sold? Maybe something to do with that.
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Any liquor you want, it's all about the kegs and low fusoil content.....

I have watched this movie dozens of times and I still don't know what the word Eddie was saying is, fusoil? foosal? I have no idea.

As for TK6 it seems as if it had some significance because of the seemingly prominent way it showed up in the one scene it was shown in. BUT more likely it was simply just on the car and had no meaning to the movie.

I have always thought of it as a movie maker's car who had a vanity plate that meant Take Six.

Another question, did people back in the day ever actually put money on the rail to signify to onlookers that they are looking for a game? I have to admit that after I saw the Color of Money for the first time I went immediately afterward to a pool room in Oklahoma City and grabbed a table and put a $100 bill on the rail.

I played for about 30 minutes and no one even looked at my money much less offered me a game. Which was good or that money probably would have gone into their pocket along with whatever was still in my pocket.

I was 18 and still very green to the "real" pool scene.

But you know TCOM had advisors like Mike Sigel and I wonder if ever they might have spoken up and said no, people don't put money on the table to show they are looking for action. Or was this an actual thing players did?
 
Here is something I did for kicks. Put TCOM on your ipod or whatever portable player you have. Then take a walk and listen to it. If you're like me you will see the movie in your head but also experience in a little deeper way by listening to the dialog this way.
 
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