Recent content by brunswick1901

This story is about Dave, a professional photographer who was a regular in the pool room. Making a living is tough, especially when a customer stiffs you. Dave set up his studio to take head shots for the owner of a Beverly Hills beauty Salon and billed him $1,000. This was the 1980s before...

The pictures of the table below are NOT pictures of my tables. My tables are in a storage unit. Both tables are in good condition and you can choose the table you would like for $5,000. Don't let the price fool you, I'm 76 years old and it's time for me to sell the tables. You will have to...

I have two Brunswick Klings and one Brunswick Arcade in storage in Los Angeles. All three are nine foot and one has a ball return. All three are in nice condition. If you are interested please direct message me.

The corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue where Hollywood Billiards was located according to LAPD reports the area around Hollywood Billiards had the highest crime in Los Angeles in the mid 1980s. The drug of choice was Cocaine and the competition between the drug dealers was...

This is a copy of a post I made on Monday. Because Gus and I had a mutual friend he arranged for me to visit Gus at his home in Penndel Pennsylvania. The first thing Gus said to me when he opened the door was, "I understand you want to make cues". I said yes and Gus said, "I don't let cue...

Gus made three cues for me, I sold two of them and gave one to a business partner. I other than the weight and shat size I left it up to Gus to decide what to make. They were relatively plain cues. Barry made me one cue and as amazing as it sounds I have to find it.

.....because of me. Because Gus and I had a mutual friend he arranged for me to visit Gus at his home in Penndel Pennsylvania. The first thing Gus said to me when he opened the door was, "I understand you want to make cues". I said yes and Gus said, "I don't let cue makers into my shop"...

Marina Billiards located near Marina Del Rey just West of Los Angeles was a small pool room with a lot of action in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One of the housemen was Lou "Machine Gun" Butera, who won the World Poker Billiards Championship in 1973. When Lou would teach a pool lesson the...

George Redman, better known as George the Drummer because he headed a popular band in Los Angeles and in Hollywood movies. George could be found in the day at the race track and at night in a pool room. What I remember most about George is when he said hoped his Cataract surgery would help him...

I started playing pool in Los Angeles 58 years ago and some things were better then and some things are better now. The Billiard Palace in Bellflower, a little Southwest of LA, is where some of the best players played, I watched Billy Johnson aka Wade Crane play Richie Florence for three days...

I have this on eBay with a $125 starting price and a $175 But It Now. If you would like to buy it for $150 I will remove it from eBay and sell it to you. https://www.ebay.com/itm/277649835046?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&customid=link&campid=5335988529&toolid=20001&mkevt=1

I heard this story from a friend of Ronnie Atwell, the long time houseman at Celebrity Billiards on Vine Street a little South of Hollywood Boulevard. Important to this story is Ronnie was a perfect gentleman who everyone liked and respected. Also important to the story is George Brant. George...

How Good was Minnesota Fats? Anyone that saw the videos when Fats played on TV would think that Fats couldn't play at all. There is a YouTube video dated September 30, 2024 posted by Jim's Place Billiards where Nick Varner talks about playing Fats. Nick says in the video that when he played...

The Jansco brothers moved their Johnston City Pool Tournament to the Stardust Casino in Las Vegas after the Feds raided their tournament for, of all things, gambling! Ronnie Allen was of the top players in Johnston City and Las Vegas and second only to Minnesota Fats in using his banter to get...

I was just reminded of a story I heard when I first started playing pool. It was the late 1970s and the Chop Sticks in North Hollywood, California was where Ronnie Allen, Cokes, Tony Ola, Alibi Al and others whose names I do not remember hung out. It was an action pool room only, no casual...