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McGirr's on 8th Avenue in NYC, with Georgia Boy and a million road players. Every type of table and every conceivable type of action. If it were still around, HBO should've featured it in The Deuce.
Guys & Dolls in Silver Hill, MD, home of Strawberry, Lefty Joe, Jackie Robinson, Bus Driver Ronnie, Geese, Little Gus, Lawrence "Slippery" Jackson (who one night dropped $100,000 in cash in a 1-hole match and paid off out of a suitcase), and too many road players to mention. Before Beanie's Jack & Jill opened up in early 1968, it was the best DC area room ever.
That was a great spot, in its day. Also, Eddie Taylor (Knoxville Bear) was around those parts in the 60's with "Champagne Ed Kelly" before his World Championships. Also, Frisco Jack Cooney and his wife were robbed and she got shot there after the place got rough. Little Gus used to run around with Buddy Dennis from Baltimore, who frequented that place as well. My favorite room in Baltimore was the Alemeda, a place that had it all, between '69 and '76 when it burned down. It had good food and a great tournament room that seated 150 people for the MD State events in which I participated in that time frame. The tables were great and the conditions perfect. John Carter, the owner had the tables for the real players set apart from the casual tables for ball bangers. That's a spot I wished was open today.