Never heard of it. It was just a name/place in the book. Only poolroom anywhere close to downtown was Boulder Billiards at 311 S. Boulder. Awesome old school walk-down joint run by Randy 'Fat Randy' Wallace. That book was set in 60's/70's and filmed in '83 and there was NO Benny's Billiards at either time. Funny related tale, while they were filming downtown i went down to BB's to shoot some not knowing what was going on. Had to park blocks away and i walked right into their movie shit. Had to sidestep some lights/cameras on my way to the 'hall. Tulsa was like redneck Hollywood for a few yrs, they filmed 'The Outsiders' and 'Rumble Fish' basically back-to-back. Coppola did them both. The author, S.E. Hinton, was/is a friend of my sisters. I went to Rogers, the h.s. used in Outsiders.
Thanks for the reply. I knew you would have the answer. When watching the movie, I considered Benny's was a set -- among other things, the painted name on the window was a little funky. But, what I saw on net made me think it was real. I guess the address was just the storefront where they created the set.
long closed. it wasn't doing great and the last straw was it was right next to the newspaper and they wanted the space for new print equipment. it was a magical place and where my love/addiction began. walk-down joint with old Brunswick pool/snooker tables, back room for cards and female 'entertainment'. Fat Randy added a small bar(just beer) and really good bar food. some kind of spot lemme tell you. i bought my first good cue there, a Meucci BH-1 Rifleman from Buddy himself out of the trunk of his car. he was pimpin Meucci then and had a bunch of cue/cases to sell out on the road.
