Derby City pictures from early days

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With Derby City Classic just around the corner, I started digging thru some old pictures. Thought it would be fun to share. I was at the very first Derby City and pretty much every one since. My daughter would come with me in the early days when DCC was at Executive Inn. She got to meet all the legends.

I'd love to see others' pictures from DCC!
 

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Some great memories from this particular Derby City. Earl Strickland let my daughter carry his cues into the main tournament room. Later that night Jeanette Lee asked my daughter to help her at her autograph table. I really miss the juniors being able to attend DCC.
 

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Executive West was the BOMB. I loved the old DCC better than at least two of my old girlfriends. And now, just as the wound on my chest was about to heal, the stitches are ripped out anew.

Wonderful pictures. I never really thought about Diamond dumping the Juniors, but now that you bring it up, it has to be high on the list of the many cold, cruel cuts in this terrible debacle.
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Executive West was the BOMB. I loved the old DCC better than at least two of my old girlfriends. And now, just as the wound on my chest was about to heal, the stitches are ripped out anew.

Wonderful pictures. I never really thought about Diamond dumping the Juniors, but now that you bring it up, it has to be high on the list of the many cold, cruel cuts in this terrible debacle.
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Write Broadway plays for a hobby or what???? Just a TAD dramatic don't ya think?? Diamond had to drop the juniors when the casino moved on-shore. Out of their control. The EW was cool and i liked the vibe too but its wasn't all that safe. Plenty of people had cars broken into and/or got robbed in the hotel itself. The new location may lack the 'cool factor' but is waaaaay safer.
 
ky4some said:
With Derby City Classic just around the corner, I started digging thru some old pictures. Thought it would be fun to share. I was at the very first Derby City and pretty much every one since. My daughter would come with me in the early days when DCC was at Executive Inn. She got to meet all the legends.

I'd love to see others' pictures from DCC!
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Very cool. 👍
 
garczar said:
Write Broadway plays for a hobby or what???? Just a TAD dramatic don't ya think?? Diamond had to drop the juniors when the casino moved on-shore. Out of their control. The EW was cool and i liked the vibe too but its wasn't all that safe. Plenty of people had cars broken into and/or got robbed in the hotel itself. The new location may lack the 'cool factor' but is waaaaay safer.
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Well, Garczar, I hope I am able to explain myself clearly . . . but I sometimes experience difficulty when engaging in such undertakings.

A couple of weeks ago I apparently dogged it badly while attempting sarcasm on AZB. Since my attempts at subtlety were at risk of being lost on some members, I opted to adopt a more heavy handed method of exposition. Initially, I thought I had done a pretty good job in lamenting our loss of both pool halls and their related way of life, when I wrote the following response in the thread "Are there any books about the 'Life' in a pool room . . .":

"And, so what if we have lost all of these dives. We now have all of the great tournaments. Pool is being freed from its sordid past. I can't wait to read all of the great books that will be coming out about this exciting new era of pool."

Imagine my surprise when one of our more insightful members missed my mocking tone and mistakenly thought that I, Biloxi Boy, truly favored pool's modern era and, more incredibly, that I eagerly anticipated reading the literary gems soon to be inspired by tournament play, and responded thusly:

"Modern pro pool is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Yeah they play good but the robotic nature of most players is kinda boring. A lot of the great old rooms were not dives and most of what went on was far from sordid. Enjoy your antiseptic, lily-white vision of pool. I'll pass."

I reckon I'm fixing to have to figure out them emoji things.
 
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garczar said:
Write Broadway plays for a hobby or what???? Just a TAD dramatic don't ya think?? Diamond had to drop the juniors when the casino moved on-shore. Out of their control. The EW was cool and i liked the vibe too but its wasn't all that safe. Plenty of people had cars broken into and/or got robbed in the hotel itself. The new location may lack the 'cool factor' but is waaaaay safer.
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Hate to get in a pickle in the elevator at the EW. More than a few folks did, didn't they?
 

One of my boys' favorite retorts. I learned early on that, if I felt I could not handle a place, it was better if I didn't go in.
Being scared was never my idea of a good time.
 
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Biloxi Boy said:
Executive West was the BOMB. I loved the old DCC better than at least two of my old girlfriends. And now, just as the wound on my chest was about to heal, the stitches are ripped out anew.

Wonderful pictures. I never really thought about Diamond dumping the Juniors, but now that you bring it up, it has to be high on the list of the many cold, cruel cuts in this terrible debacle.
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Yep, the juniors not being able to attend DCC in this modern era is a real shame. There are not many sports where you can walk shoulder to shoulder with the world's best. The vendors, the vibe, the action rooms, the tournament room...they all came together to show my kids the true world of pool that good old dad loved so much. They loved every minute of it!
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Well, Garczar, I hope I am able to explain myself clearly . . . but I sometimes experience difficulty when engaging in such undertakings.

A couple of weeks ago I apparently dogged it badly while attempting sarcasm on AZB. Since my attempts at subtlety were at risk of being lost on some members, I opted to adopt a more heavy handed method of exposition. Initially, I thought I had done a pretty good job in lamenting our loss of both pool halls and their related way of life, when I wrote the following response in the thread "Are there any books about the 'Life' in a pool room . . .":

"And, so what if we have lost all of these dives. We now have all of the great tournaments. Pool is being freed from its sordid past. I can't wait to read all of the great books that will be coming out about this exciting new era of pool."

Imagine my surprise when one of our more insightful members missed my mocking tone and mistakenly thought that I, Biloxi Boy, truly favored pool's modern era and, more incredibly, that I eagerly anticipated reading the literary gems soon to be inspired by tournament play, and responded thusly:

"Modern pro pool is about as exciting as watching paint dry. Yeah they play good but the robotic nature of most players is kinda boring. A lot of the great old rooms were not dives and most of what went on was far from sordid. Enjoy your antiseptic, lily-white vision of pool. I'll pass."

I reckon I'm fixing to have to figure out them emoji things.
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You are 100% correct in my opinion! Modern pool is played at an amazing high level these days. I mean these pros just play amazing. But the flavor of modern pool is different. There is less character, less drama, less heart, less action. It's the backstories of pool that make it a great story, not the level of play. I almost hate to say that as a true student of the game itself but it is true. I'm just glad I experienced the golden era of poo in my humble opinion.
 
Borrowing from Joni Mitchell, and as I previously posted:

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi

Also provides an apt description of the world of tournament pool (and a good title for tournament pool's first great book): "Paved Paradise".
 
To give equal time to us guys , , ,

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

John Prine
Paradise



Merry Christmas Everyone!
 
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