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Thanks, I have not been to College since the late 80’s when I worked in Rancho Bernardo for a while. Lots of players around then including Swanee and Roy The Cook, but no golf that I can remember.

Thanks, I have heard about Magoo’s, and it is on the list. I think Gabe Owen used to play out of there.

I miss playing golf in a pool room. I get over to California Billiards to play some on the 6 x 12 once and a while, but it is a 2 1/2 hour trip each way and hit or miss to get a game. I played golf all over Southern Ca from the late 50’s through the 90’s and have played hundreds of games on Big...

No gingerbread below the wrap except a ring.

I am 79 years old, have been playing pool for 65+ years and this is my first year playing APA and I am enjoying it very much. BUT, I am playing in a Masters League with no handicaps. I have heard many of the complaints about APA and the sandbaggers and whatever, but there are always complaints...

My experience is it will fit, but if you put the shaft back on a wavy pin it may be a little loose. This can be corrected by putting some water in the butt which will cause some swelling of the wood and tighten up the connection. You have to be careful, if you leave the water in too long, it may...

The old rules at Hard Times, Bellflower started when the 6 x 12 was at Verne Peterson’s Billiard Palace in the 60’s. If you kicked at your ball and missed, it was a hickey and your ball came off the table, UNLESS the following player did not like where the cue ball ended up. Then he could make...

I have never played with a hickey ball but it does sound interesting. I have played golf for 60+ years at rooms all over the country and as others have mentioned on here, the rules are different and sometimes ridiculous. Gypsy golf they used to play in Los Angeles was the most confusing I have...

They recovered the tables in red and tried to turn it into a nightclub with pool tables. Kind of what’s happening with Freezer’s now in Phoenix. Didn’t work for Hollywood and we will wait and see about Freezer’s. IMO you have to be one or the other, history shows us trying to be both does not...

I am 79 and soon to be 80. I know the day is coming and thought it was here a few times in the last couple years, but won’t give it up. I still play in tournaments and gamble, mostly at one pocket, but will play a little 9 ball or three cushion for a few bucks on occasion. My one pocket game...

Great match and very impressed with Jennifer’s game. She kept on coming to win it. Enjoyed the commentary from Mary and guest. Thanks For the stream.

Nobody is a bigger Ernesto fan than I am. I played him at the original Hard Times in 1976 or so and many times since. His high end might have been better from time to time, but his son Oscar seems to hold that level more consistently. Of course Ernesto worked hard most of the time and that...

All great players that could beat each other on any given day.

Kenny and I played some at Verne Peterson’s Billiard Palace in Bellflower. He was the first of the young guys to take a road trip and came back a step up on the rest of us. I have not seen him for quite awhile, say hello for me if you see this.

I played Brian at Five Points Bowl when he first came from Hawaii. I beat him a couple cheap sets and Hawaiian Jay told me that would not last long and he was right. I loved playing Brian over the years and probably lost more money to him than anybody else. It did not matter what he gave me in...

Tweedy (Jim Shermerhorn sp) Jimmy Van and I played quite a bit of golf and liability snooker on Bertha starting in the 60’s and into the early nineties when they opened Hard Times and put the same 6 x 12 in it. Heart Attack Jack would play in the cheaper games but more likely to be in with one...

Hard Times, Sacramento has senior day Tuesday’s and Thursday’s where seniors play for $2 per hour per table. They often get 30/40 players.

We did not use the Grady Rule at any of the senior events at Bogies in Houston.

I will be 80 this year. I play 2/3 times a week and only if I am gambling or in a tournament. The competition keeps me going and it takes a fairly good player to beat me at the games I still play. There are days I just cannot focus and nothing I can do that day seems to help. I believe it is a...

Shane had a couple brutal scratches near the end that might have turned it around, but Chang might be the guy at the top of the heap right now.