Mosconi's High School?

Mr. Bond

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Before I start canvasing every dang school in the Philly metroplex - does anyone happen to know offhand what high school or private school Mosconi attended?
 

PoolBum

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Mosconi went to Barrett Junior High School and then South Philadelphia High School.
 

lfigueroa

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Before I start canvasing every dang school in the Philly metroplex - does anyone happen to know offhand what high school or private school Mosconi attended?


Barrett Jr. HS and South Philadelphia High.

Lou Figueroa
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a slip stroke
back then either :-o
 

Mr. Bond

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cool thanks...
trying to track down info about his buddy Frank Amelio
 

jackpot

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What ?

How in the Hell do you people know this stuff ? Mr. Bond barely finished typing
and here comes the answer. It would take me longer to remember my own schools
and they were both 2 blocks from where I lived for 20 years.
jack
 

Tramp Steamer

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How in the Hell do you people know this stuff ? Mr. Bond barely finished typing
and here comes the answer. It would take me longer to remember my own schools
and they were both 2 blocks from where I lived for 20 years.
jack

They nose it 'cause they is smart as whips. :thumbup:
 

philly

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Before I start canvasing every dang school in the Philly metroplex - does anyone happen to know offhand what high school or private school Mosconi attended?

He grew up in Philadelphia in South Philly. Huge Italian Catholic neighborhood. Try the Catholic parishes of the time. I know this is broad but I highly doubt he went to public school but if he did South Philadelphia High School is probably where he attended.

Sorry, just read the other posts.

Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Bond.
 

Cuebuddy

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How in the Hell do you people know this stuff ? Mr. Bond barely finished typing
and here comes the answer. It would take me longer to remember my own schools
and they were both 2 blocks from where I lived for 20 years.
jack

Im just guessing.

May is a month when many students graduate and it is usually towards the end of that month. 526
 

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"I went to the local public school, then to Barrett Junior High School and South Philadelphia High. About halfway through high school my father took me out and enrolled me in Banks Business College. I had no interest in business and I certainly didn't want to go to a specialized school, but my father had his own ideas. His sister's husband was in the shoe-binding business, and my father was hoping to get me some training so that I could join him in the business. But it didn't work out that way. I completed enough courses to receive my high school diploma, but about halfway through I had to leave and go to work."

Willie's Game, by Willie Mosconi & Stanley Cohen, p. 18.
 

michael4

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"I went to the local public school, then to Barrett Junior High School and South Philadelphia High. About halfway through high school my father took me out and enrolled me in Banks Business College. I had no interest in business and I certainly didn't want to go to a specialized school, but my father had his own ideas. His sister's husband was in the shoe-binding business, and my father was hoping to get me some training so that I could join him in the business. But it didn't work out that way. I completed enough courses to receive my high school diploma, but about halfway through I had to leave and go to work."

Willie's Game, by Willie Mosconi & Stanley Cohen, p. 18.

thats a fancy way of saying "I didnt finish high school"



(common in working families in those days and is no reflection of his intelligence)
 

lfigueroa

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How in the Hell do you people know this stuff ? Mr. Bond barely finished typing
and here comes the answer. It would take me longer to remember my own schools
and they were both 2 blocks from where I lived for 20 years.
jack


I have a large pool library sitting right behind me. (I have one of Mosconi's cue balls sitting there on a shelf too.) So when something like this comes up, I just swivel around and pick the appropriate piece of literature.

Lou Figueroa
 

Mr. Bond

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Apparently Willie and the Fresh Prince of Belaire have a lot in common lol
 
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