Cotton Bowling Palace follow up for At Large
your informtion is correct
It had 10 or so pool tables and was open 24 hours a day
Dallas was a bedroom community with very few if any other all nightspots
As a result it attracked the night life crowd,after hours,pool took off
Gangsters,ladies of the night,and that sort gravitated to the place
suddenly gambling became glamorous in this environment and billy Stroud slipped in,
a clean cut almost shy college kid and started playing the bookies ,gangsters and road players.
I have never seen anything like it as far as pool goes.I was not much of a player either then or since,but i caught on to the idea under the se examples.
years later I made the last score at the location in the old building when it became Highland Park Ford
Inspired by the old magic at the Ford dealership I won several thousand dollars while shopping for a car for my kids some 20 years ago,
Since then I seldom get by that part of town,but if it were still the place it was, I would not be surprised to see many of you guys vacationing in Dallas just to see another side of life.
Bill Porter may have some pictures ofthe place and some of the chacters. Titanic Thompson,George McGann,RD Matthews, ,Billy Stroud, alfie Taylor,his brother jack, I forget the name of the car dealer bookie on Ross Avenue, Oak Cliff Shorty, Cornbread Red,Fats,UJ Puckett,,Vernon litton,Johnny little Page,Boston Shorty, I could go on but I promised to stop spamming
