How many names can you get?
- Thread starter alstl
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Was gonna take a stab at Boston Shorty and Fredo Corleone.
Eddie Taylor,Marshall Carpenter aka Squirrel, Danny Jones, Cowboy Jimmie Moore, Boston Shorty, Hubert Cokes.
I've been playing for seven decades now. I've seen and talked to pretty much all of the fellows in this picture at one time or another. Going left to right:
Eddie Taylor
Earl Shriver
Marshall "Squirrel" Carpenter
Handsome Danny (Jones)
"Connecticut Johnny" (Vives)
"Cowboy" Jimmy Moore
Larry "Boston Shorty" Johnson
Sonny Springer
"Joey Spades" (Spaeth)
Hubert Cokes' bodyguard
Hubert "Daddy Warbucks" Cokes
Johnny Irish
Eddie "Chris" McGehean
Unknown
Joe Procita
Unknown
Unknown
Arnaldo
Eddie Taylor
Earl Shriver
Marshall "Squirrel" Carpenter
Handsome Danny (Jones)
"Connecticut Johnny" (Vives)
"Cowboy" Jimmy Moore
Larry "Boston Shorty" Johnson
Sonny Springer
"Joey Spades" (Spaeth)
Hubert Cokes' bodyguard
Hubert "Daddy Warbucks" Cokes
Johnny Irish
Eddie "Chris" McGehean
Unknown
Joe Procita
Unknown
Unknown
Arnaldo
Arnaldo, what event would bring these well dressed gents together?
Thanx, Arn
I was pleased tp see Chris McGehean’s face...we played snooker for three days when
I was a kid in Gary IN...I almost went broke the first day.
Thanks, I didn't think people would recognize John Vives from CT- when I moved up there from NY in 84 he was still playing but I remember being in a New Haven Ct room in the early 90s and there was a big argument over Vives not paying off on a big bet. I think he fought some DEAMONS MOST of his life- but in the 60s he was one of the best one pocket players in the US. I had a room owner in Ct tell me that Johnny Ervolino from NYC used to travel to Ct with a few mobsters and a few dames and gamble big $$ with Vives into the AM in DERBY CT. Wish I was there to see that! Two of the nations gambling best at that time battling it out all night long, with all the backdrop that Hollywood would die for!!
i can just imagine Ervolino's crew- mobsters and gun molls- bolting down I95 at 6am in a Continental Convertible after a session with Vives!
I know what the table is! Ae Schmidt COMET POOL TABLE!
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johnny vives won the 1961 hustlers jamboree in johnston city
that was the first year and was only onepocket
The guy to the very left of Joe Procita in the picture {its actually his right} between him and sunglasses is Don Sebastion , the guy to Procitas right standing higher is Lester Coleman and the guy standing below him is John Hoppe , no relation to Willie that I know of.
That's not a picture , it's the door.
I hope I didn't offend you bud, I have been on a goof for 2 days. I'm going stir crazy..
Not at all. Don't give it a second thought.