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I am a happy owner of an Olhausen Innsbruck table that I have had for 25 years. Out of curiousity I stopped in at the local Olhausen dealer to look at the current tables. It looked to me like the pocket facing angles on all the new tables had been made more parallel (not sure that is the right...

Olhausen manufacturing changes? i am the very happy owner of a 25 year old Olhausen. I think it plays great. I stopped in to an Atlanta Olhausen dealers and looked at the tables. It appears to me that all the tables had "more parallel" pocket facings (not sure I'm using the correct...

I've had 30+ production cues over the years and I have come to like Pechauers the best. A Pechauer is my current playing cue and after about 50 years of buying cues, I've stopped looking for any more. I think the hit on Schons is "too stiff." But cue selection is very subjective. I think...

Somehow this St. Louis email is in a chain about identifying a table but I don't know how to move it and my reply. Grand Olive was definitely know as Arata's for many years. You can google it. I played at Grand Olive during my high school years, also at Tropicana Lanes in Clayton, Esquire...

Here is my Gear Keeping it simple. Pechauer Pro cue.

Two Different Contacts I use 2.75 on left eye and 1.25 on right eye and they seem to work fine even on 9 foot tables. My main problems with contacts is that by 9 or 10 pm they sometimes start to lose their shape or get fuzzy so I try to change into new ones before a night match or playing...

I have taken lessons from Jerry and my pool game has improved dramatically. He is a fantastic teacher and a wonderful person. Listen to Jeanette Lee's Hall of Fame acceptance speech at about 28 minutes to hear her praise Jerry. You can look at his three disc lesson set to get some idea of...

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Can anyone please tell me the width (measured from the very outside edge of the table to the very outside edge of the table) of a Gold Crown oversize 8? I have a basement room that is just wide enough to fit my Olhausen standard 8 foot table (which is 54" inches wide from outside edge to...

I am 65 years old and get to each APA match at least one half hour before the start. Usually the captain and maybe one other player is there for the first hour, which often limits our posting flexibility. I also score first if i'm not playing first. And after I play I'll usually have a...

Best Pool Book Ever! I think Freddy's new book is the best book about pool ever written. (And I think I have read all of them.) It is so good because Freddy actually played with a lot of these guys and played with other guys who knew them. You need to buy it and treasure it.

The place below Grand - Olive Billiards was called Garavelli's. The Garavelli family was a well-known St. Louis restaurant family and even today there is a Garavelli's restaurant in St. Louis. I played at Grand-Olive a bunch in the 60s and Grand-Olive had what I would call an errand boy named...