Dress Code for Gold Crown Billiards, Erie, PA

skip100 said:
Meme spamming, the last resort of people who can't write out a proper argument.
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What in hell is a meme?

We didn't have no meme's when I was growing up.

We had to write out everything in Cursive.

I heard that schools will no longer be teaching Cursive.

Everyone should be required to text and type in Cursive.

I'm going to write a letter to my Congressman, as soon as I find my quill and inkwell.
 
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Koop said:
Did anyone notice this post is nearly 7 years old? I'm more interested in how his business is doing 7 years after posting this.
If it's doing well then I guess he has a point with his restrictions. If it's barely hanging on then I guess not.
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33 years and counting. :bow-down:
http://www.goldcrownbilliardseriepa.com/history/
 
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Koop said:
Did anyone notice this post is nearly 7 years old? I'm more interested in how his business is doing 7 years after posting this.
If it's doing well then I guess he has a point with his restrictions. If it's barely hanging on then I guess not.
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It seems to me he has a regular group of customers that don't care or even agree with his stubborn discrimination. I would guess his average customer is over 45 years old and have been coming there for a very long time. Good for him, bad for pool. Whatever... par for the course.
 
cleary said:
It seems to me he has a regular group of customers that don't care or even agree with his stubborn discrimination. I would guess his average customer is over 45 years old and have been coming there for a very long time. Good for him, bad for pool. Whatever... par for the course.
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Well, I fit that demographic, barely(46)...LOL
But, that place sounds a little too stuffy for me.
 
Paul Schofield said:
Imagine this. You are planning an expansion for your business, maybe adding a bar/restaurant to your room. You invite bankers in to inspect your business. They see trashy girls with inappropriate attire, thug looking patrons with their hats on sideways and their buttocks hanging outside their pants, and every fourth word is the F word. See how that sells.
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Paul Schofield said:
Think again. I opened my room when I was 24 in 1978 with a rented 2800 square feet, 12 pool tables, no food, no bar, just pool. I opened with essentially the same dress code I have today. Gold Crown Billiards is first and foremost a legitimate pool room. We have a regular cast of pool room characters, regular action, and all the components of bonifide billiard establishment. I have been able to house both the pool world and the entertainment world under the same roof through a dress and conduct code. I stuck to my guns and got away with it. I never allowed the players to set the tone and establish the character of my place. They can ruin a place if a room owner is not careful.

Thirty two years later, we have grown more than 5 fold into a 16,000 square foot Billiard Room / Bar/ Restaurant / Entertainment Facility. I now own the plaza. We are a melting pot. Our clientèle includes corp execs, businessmen, office girls, doctors, attorneys, and yes pool players and kids with t-shirts. Even if someone is not interest in pool, we have something for everyone. This evolution and growth could not have happened without the conduct and dress code.
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Paul Schofield said:
There was not a single location in my home town that was legal to put a poolroom. I knew that. A new plaza was being constructed right in the heart of town (traffic count over 50,000 a day). I manged to sign a lease with a desperate unsuspecting landlord. I never applied for a zoning permit. I never advertised what I was doing. I never told a soul. I opened up one day to the shock of the city. The city surveyors showed up at my place checking distances to homes. The mayor decided to just leave me alone, knowing that if my business caused trouble, they had everything they needed to legally shut me down. I instituted a dress and conduct code and ran my business in a respectable manner with a respectable clientele. It all worked out.
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cleary said:
Well, part of the problem is that people just don't read. And when they do, they don't try to understand what was written. We live in a meme world now... memes and clickbait are literally the reason our president got elected.
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I think Paul Scofield explained pretty well the reasons for his dress code....
....but i like memes....

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pt109 said:
I think Paul Scofield explained pretty well the reasons for his dress code....
....but i like memes....
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His first line there is pretty funny. The banker shows up and sees young people dressed like young people and he runs away lol. Stop! This is hilarious. It's a pool room not a retirement center. Well, in this case, probably more of a retirement center.
 
I may have mentioned this earlier....several years ago when Jimmy Hodges's place, GameTime/RipTide was still open in Greenville, SC, Jimmy had a rule for about 6 months if I remember right, no men's shirts untucked. The gangbanger/hiphop crowd who's place near there had burned were coming into Jimmy's place every night. Adding that rule kept them from coming back. You can cry whatever you want, no shoot outs at Gametime. We just shrugged and tucked our shirts in and went in to play. No big deal.
 
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cleary said:
His first line there is pretty funny.

The banker shows up and sees young people dressed like Hoodlums, Thugs, Gang Bangers and he runs away, lol.

Stop! This is hilarious. It's a pool room not a business.

Well, in this case, probably more of a Respected Billiards, Bar, Restaurant.
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For Shame!

Going against the accepted norm of how a pool room should be.
 
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3andstop said:
I'm not sure what that means. It isn't 1950 anymore.

Do you mean families don't sit down to dinner together anymore?

Do you mean you can't walk around your block after dark anymore?

Do you mean teenagers don't respect the law anymore?

Do you mean cops can't defend themselves without getting sued anymore?

Do you mean people don't have enough respect to wear their pants around their waist anymore?

Or do you mean you can't even say Merry Christmas anymore.

I could go on and on, and if this is what you mean ..... you're right, sadly, very sadly, it's not 1950 anymore.

Everyone has moral values. Some are unfortunately much lower than others. I for one applaud the people who have the balls to stand up for higher values. Values that show respect and decency for others. Values that say if you are going to act like a pig do it someplace else. You are not allowed to do it in my private establishment.

Go infect some public gathering place where the politicians dare not put their decency and values before votes, but keep your scummy butt out of my private house.
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I completely agree!!! Even though I was not yet born in the 50's it sure seems like it was a much more respectable time.
 
cleary said:
Well, part of the problem is that people just don't read. And when they do, they don't try to understand what was written. We live in a meme world now... memes and clickbait are literally the reason our president got elected.
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That comment seems to put things in perspective.
 
fastone371 said:
I completely agree!!! Even though I was not yet born in the 50's it sure seems like it was a much more respectable time.
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Was it "respectable" for interracial marriage to be illegal? Or for women to be forced into teaching or secretarial work regardless of their qualifications?

Despite the widespread, misplaced nostalgia for Mayberry 1950 we have made drastic improvements in moral values since then.

Backwards hats are not indicative of moral laxity.

Uggs, on the other hand... ;)
 
"Misplaced nostalgia for Mayberry 1950"

Have we "drastically improved" our morals, yes.

But the we still has serious problems with American Society.

50 years since the "protest movements" and not much has really changed.

Same Shite
Different Day

Don't get sucked in by "Nostalgia of the Flower Power, Hippy Days" either.
Romanticizing what went on in the 60's can be misleading.

Hippies and Flower Children were for the most part, just hanging out.

The Freaks and Geeks were the ones making chemicals, creating art, music, theater, posters, flyers, candles, incense.

Protests were for civil rights, not individual rights.
For the betterment of all.
Not Anarchy.
------------------------------------------------

Ozzie and Harriet Neighborhoods now look like a scene from Blade Runner.
Trash, graffiti, dead lawns.

Attitudes and Mistrust from everyone towards everyone.

Over sensitivity and violent reaction to simple things.

2020 is way more violent than the 50/60's.
Discussions
Speechs
Gossip
Reporting
Reactions
Court Cases
Protests
All are more violent here in 2020

Crime and Violence has increased.

Point Being...........

The more things change,
The more they remain the same.

You can not change anyone but yourself.

Stop the Fighting.

Change Yourself









skip100 said:
Was it "respectable" for interracial marriage to be illegal? Or for women to be forced into teaching or secretarial work regardless of their qualifications?

Despite the widespread, misplaced nostalgia for Mayberry 1950 we have made drastic improvements in moral values since then.

Backwards hats are not indicative of moral laxity.

Uggs, on the other hand... ;)
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