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I had a cue by Cadillac many years ago. Nice guy and reasonably priced cues and repairs.

custom cues 50 years ago I worked at the U of Delaware pool room and Jimmy Caras gave an exhibition. I asked him if I needed a custom cue cue to be a better pool player. His response on a 4 1/2 x 9 Brunswick GC was to pull several house cues off the rack and machine gun balls of the table as...

GC1 for sure. Can't beat the classic union built quality and easily restorable to kind of look and finish you want.

Many good points here. I bought a very inexpensive set of Brunswick Centennials at a pool room closing. However they needed cleaning from being in a busy commercial room and the surfaces were not pristine. I figured I could sell them at a decent profit if they didn't play well as they are a...

Agree about Mosconi. When we were teenagers he used to play an exhibition for an old friend at the Royal Bar in Port Deposit, MD. My friend and I went there and they told us to beat it as we were way underage. So we wait outside and Mosconi's limo pulls up. We said "Mr. Mosconi we came here to...

I worked the pool room at the University of Delaware. We had Jimmy Caras do an exhibition so I asked him about the cue making a difference. He pulled a one piece beat up house cue off the rack and started firing balls into the pockets-that was his answer to buying an expensive cue!

I have a gold crown 1. Built a room 16' x 25' so I had the option for a 10'm table but didn't want to use a bridge all the time. Enjoy your gold crown! You can never go wrong with one!

Delaware Dogs I was friends with "Dogs" real name Vaughn Giamettao. When Dogs died his mom mostly knew guys by their nicknames like "Cadillac Joe" "The Bread man", etc. We were in Don's pool hall on main street in Newark one day. A guy comes in with a one piece cue and nobody knows him. Dogs...