I have not but would like to check it out. I have played a few times at the Cue Club in Lexington and really like it. It is a nice clean place and the food is good also. I play regular at my Cuzin's house and a Friends also but with the Virus everything is down. I plan to go back to the Cue Club as soon as it opens back up, My Repair guy who is also a Friend supplied most of the tables for it,
Cue club? Is that the place at Rupp?
No , it is off Nicholasville Rd on Moore Drive. It is a really nice place full of Diamond Tables. The only complaint I have is that the price to play is $ 10 per hour per person which is way to much . But on Friday's it is $ 5 per hr per person and that is when we go. 10 bux per hr is to much to play pool. They need to figure out that to be successful you make your money from food and drinks not pool. If you charge $5 that Is enough and you will draw a larger crowd and the food sales will increase and that is were your profit lies . The one at Rupp I believe is Yesterday's Billiards. I have not been to it either.
Interesting to hear how much different the pool halls were in Canada than what I experienced here in the U.S. in the 60s and 70s. Pool was the poor man's game where I'm from, something for the farm hands to do on a rainy day, or the local kids to do when not shooting hoops, or playing sandlot ball. The good old days when kids went outside and played. My little town was right off Interstate 65 fairly close to Mammoth Cave National Park called Munfordville. If you guys are ever driving through stop in at Cave City and have a nice cold Ski and a Slaw burger with fries at one of the local restaurants. Good folks down there, after all this economy tanking they would be happy to see y'all. I think that will be my first trip after all this is over. Below is a taste of some of our music. WLOC was our local station and "Chitlin Time" was good time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svQOQ2DIDEU
Here's the place I played when I was a teenager. It was owned by Pete Glenn (Denny Glenn's dad) and Pete's wife was the cook. It was clean and well kept and being that the Glenn Family had always been players, they knew what was necessary to run a player's room. Ronnie Allen and Danny Di Liberto stopped by often, as did many road players.
I was hustled for the first time there. One day I was hitting some balls and a kid that was slightly older than me was hitting some by himself a couple tables over. I watched him play and was pretty sure I could beat him. I actually challenged him to play (dollar on the five and two on the nine). He started out "slopping" in some balls. I thought the luck eventually would end. It didn't. As I paid Pete at the register with what little money I had left, he asked me if I had played the young guy in the corner. I said I had, and he asked me how bad I got beat. Then, he told me that was his son, Stevie. This was the same Stevie that later appeared in the two big one pocket books "Winning One Pocket and Shots, Moves and Strategies" by Eddie Robin.
The Golden Eight Ball was a great place and I think of it often to this day!
having owned one of the largest pool rooms in this area i can tell you that food is the lowest profit margin item, games to include pool, darts and arcade are the cash cows.
our primary reason for having a full kitchen with excellent food was to keep the customers in house instead of them leaving to satisfy their cravings,or, in other words it was a hook and an anchor.
i also believed in offering the best value in rates on pool
Mumfordville. Coincidence. I have only been to Kentucky once in my life and that was around 1995 or so. I spent about 10 days in the state...staying in that town. I was collecting geology samples for some research I was doing. At first I stayed at some long motel...rooms both sides. Then I met a fellow called ‘Joe’ on Possum road or something with ‘Possum’’ in it. He was building a small dome house...not finished inside but we camped out in it.
I went to Bowling Green to a gym a couple times. Likely played pool at least once.
Nice area. More natural wilderness than I expected. I had driven down and had ‘Alberta’ plates on my car. Every one was really friendly and helped me get oriented. I don’t know if it was a sheriff or deputy but he drove a tractor. He gave me directions to a good fishing site. I mentioned that I didn’t have a license and expensive for a foreigner to get one just for one day. He said just to act dumb and mention his name.
Lawnboy 77 I am From Ky 2 , small world . Our Pool room did not have the blood stains as there was no roughness . We have a pretty nice town , someone who just got beat might mouth off a little but knew better to go to far as the owner would put them out on the street, Our's did not have the pickled Bologna but the gas stations did and I ate that 2 growing up. I have lived in ky all my life and never had a ski. Pepsi was the drink of choice around here. I will have to try one sometime.
I started playing when I was 14 years old in 1969. In Canada most billiards was played in Legions, army navy clubs, community centers, etc. In small towns it was usually the local hotel which was also a bar, restaurant. More of a community get together location. Rarely dark and sleazy.
In Canada nearly all ‘fathers’ were military veterans and I think this had influence on billiards not having the same negative image as in the United States. It’s not that there weren’t some of this image in cities but it certainly didn’t dominate. Snooker had the civilizing iinflurnce even on play at the table in the bar.
Anyways, I played in legions, army navy clubs, etc and there was an expected level of dress and behaviour.
The Golden Cue.
On Menual in Albuquerque NM. 20+ Gold Crown, 6 valleys. Two foosball tables and
assorted arcade games. Now this is a place that is tailored to the young. Full most
nights. Lots of drugs, murder and mayhem any night of the week. And some pool.
It had its fun times though, like holidays, where the other joints would shut down, and
locals like Louie Roybal, Wilfred Mayestas, and the late Kyle Tafoya would come on
down and play ring games with us youngsters. I was fortunate enough to befriend Kyle
and he was always teaching me something. Through him I met Hal Mix, one of the best
coaches of late years. It was a few years later, I was 16 or 17 and was fortunate
enough that I was able to start playing at a few other local spots, and met and played
whenever I had a chance, Cowboy Jimmie Moore.
It is gone now, and old gas station/service shop is now a vintage furniture shop...
Stompin' grounds. You guyz are takin' me back. Went to SIU Carbondale 67-71 and frequented the surrounding area and the ladies and the lakes and Janscos.
Buddy Hall country, Cape Girardeau, Duquoin, Paducah, Mt. Vernon etc. Tough playing in those wet/damp conditions, but being a kid, every day was another rack of balls.