Does anybody happen to know the name of Jimmy Caras' father's pool room in Wilmington, DE? This was in the mid-1920s. Long-shot, I know, but the collective knowledge of AZBers always continues to amaze me.
Jimmy Caras' father's pool room in Wilmington
- Thread starter J.D. Dolan
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I started to do some digging after I saw your post. You might find this interesting....
https://books.google.com/books?id=E...mmy caras pool room in wilmington, de&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=E...mmy caras pool room in wilmington, de&f=false
If anybody would know it would be Bob Maidhof of Drexiline billiards. He probably knows more about Jimmy Caras than anybody else alive.
Also found this:
Jimmy Caras, Wilmington's only World Champion, had a pool hall in town, as well. The entrance to Caras's establishment was exactly next to the old Warner Theater on Delaware Avenue. My informant told me that he couldn't remember if you turned right or left when you got to the top of the stairs. Maybe, on a really quiet night, if you listen carefully, you can still hear somewhere up on the second floor of the bank building that's now located there, the faint sound of the break as Jimmy Caras wields his ghostly cue.
Jimmy Caras, Wilmington's only World Champion, had a pool hall in town, as well. The entrance to Caras's establishment was exactly next to the old Warner Theater on Delaware Avenue. My informant told me that he couldn't remember if you turned right or left when you got to the top of the stairs. Maybe, on a really quiet night, if you listen carefully, you can still hear somewhere up on the second floor of the bank building that's now located there, the faint sound of the break as Jimmy Caras wields his ghostly cue.
It does mention Jimmy Caras' "Tenth Street Billiard Parlor," as if that was the name of the place rather than just its location. But that room might not have been his father's place. The book says his father "owned several pool rooms around town."
That's really cool. If only we could wander upstairs, bust open the doors, and have a look-see.
So the building is still there!
Jimmy would have been about 36, give or take a little, at the time of that picture. Does that tell us anything about whether the room was his or his father's?
the photo is definitely from sometime during World War II. The sign on the movie theater says war bonds. So probably 1942 to 1945.
i looked up the movie Up In Arms and it was made in 1944.
