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I grew up in germantown but spent every weekend from 13 or so in Olnwy at zach and pete davis house. Thats how i got to up the boulevard Pete would take us amd we’d get stay up there all hours of the night watching and learning from the best around!

Yea thank you for the memory! Fred was a great guy and great player! Talked to him often as he was friends with Pete Davis.

Had to be cue and cushion yes!!! The only Mosconi’s I ever went to was on 20th and Oregon in south philly!

I ran around with Spanish Dave when he was playing good. We would even go to a room in west oak lane i think looking for action. Cant remember name of poolroom.

I’m 53 .. i played all over the city looking for games. I had a game at Roosevelt boulevard mall billiards it was downstairs behind the mall down from macys. The owners son Kenny was a sucker i busted a few times. There was a kid named Joey ?? Something, they would stake him against me I was a...

South philly Billiards was Ronnie Durante and Joe Pepe’s poolroom at 2nd and Oregon. It popped up in the late 80’s id say. Ronnie durante owned south philly Video and joe Pepe was a knock around guy. Mosconi’s was at 20th and Oregon and was around a lot longer. I saw Ronnie Durante break a very...

Around 1987,88 im guessing a guy named Dave Saviano bought the Boulevard. He had some bent nose silent partner. I can’t remember his name. I do remember when the Infiniti Q45 first came out he got 1 and brought it up the pool room and showed it to me and Dave. Dave was not a good player but had...

The Boulevard was on top of a laundrymat with Gaudios right there behind it at Buselton and Roosevelt boulevard. Yes levick was the street behind gaudios that we took to go home and get back on boulevard.

Some of my favorite days and nights at Fusco’s was when Peter Rabbit and Joe Veasey would play one pocket..They’d usually sit around bickering and making the game for as long as the matches took. They were HILARIOUS. If you ever saw them you’d remember it for the rest of your life. The Rabbit...

Ok well here’s one circa 1983? Muscle John a well known backer brought Brian Gross thru Philly and to Fusco’s. He was young kid from Georgia I think and a monster!!! He played Jimmy Fusco 9ball and it wasn’t close he drummed on Jimmy for a couple grand. Muscle John was crowing they’d play...

I remember doing this when I played. Mainly i was looking for the smoothest side of shaft or even feeling for a dirty spot that might stop my stroke. If i found 1 id clean it with winded and a paper towel to smooth out and clean shaft. We always did the same when we got home from the...

Yes he definitely thought he was better than he was. I remember he had at least a few szamboti’s thru the years. Gus would play in the $5 tuesday night 9ball tourney sometimes. I never got to own a Boti as we called ‘em. Robbie Reiss a kid that owned a flower shop and a lefty with a big game had...

Yes Mike Fusco I guess had a beauty salon and bought the Boulevard. I started hanging there in 1981 or so. The time was $2 a hour and it the clock was a big brown machine on corner of front counter and each table had a running clock that would be started when you got the balls.Mike would play...

I remember a poolroom in Toms River that had some action. We drove up once i think to see the place.

In my day they were all Brunswick Gold Crown’s with Simonis cloth.

Jimmy Fusco Was a CHAMPION!!! I grew up at the Boulevard in the 80’s his home poolroom at buselton and Roosevelt boulevard. He was my hero from 13 years old. I copied how he walked slowly around the table, his bridge, the way he raised and lowered his left pinky when he stroked his shot. I...

19 minutes ago Add bookmark #1 My name is Chris Mastellone. i grew up in the Boulevard in the 80’s. My buddy Zach Davis and his dad Pete Davis were who introduced me to the place when I was in 6th grade. I was 13. The place stayed open 24/7/365. you actually paid a $1 for a membership card. I...

doesnt say sold and im new to forum.

Is the rabbit book still around?