Late 70s....walked into a room in Carbondale IL.....saw a GC 3-cushion table...
...took one shot...brought the balls back and asked for pool balls.
The owner asked “Something wrong?”....said “Putting 760 Simonis on a carom table...
...is like white-washing a Porsche.”....:angry:
Yorkshire, UK....they had a 9-foot Gandy...wanted to see some pool...I looked at it...
...they had put a 40 oz. cloth with directional nap on it...I alibied politely....
...but wouldn’t hit a ball on it.
That's table is where I was introduced to the game. 70's would have been Crazy Horse, later Gatsby's. Unless you were playing on the steel framed Brunswick coming out of mothballs from somewhere in the area and placed in Stardust. That would be probably 80's. Islanddrive could help verify the dates.
Crazyhorse's table was also 9'. Wasn't 760 Simonis, it was probably Mali or whatever was cheapest. Nappy for sure. Maybe rubber backed maybe. There's no doubt, I brushed a lot of tables in the late 70's in Carbondale, IL.
That was really the only place 3Cushion was played and the experts were the Elizer's. Father and son. Sammy the elder, took me under his wing. Melvin was of course better because of age. Likely the only reason. Sammy played and saw all the old time greats. Lived in Chicago from Canada in the days of Hoppe before moving South, to Carbondale moving his sawmill and horses.
Oh the stories, Billiards and otherwise. He was 80 or so when I met him, 1973, 5' tall in heels and a giant cigar always in his mouth but when he was taking a difficult shot. Then it came out and went to the rail. Played with a jointed Titlest. No Rambow signature.
Oh and all the tables in the room were AMF.
The good ol days.