73 tables and a waiting list
- Thread starter Philthepockets
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I'm sure the Acadimliy can come up with a governimg document for all billiards access.
You know, that's what we need more of: thinkers who can think about the world's problems yet are unable to figure their own shit out.
In the 70s Syracuse had 5 or 6 rooms. Biggest 40 tables. Well over 120 tables. Every big city in upstate NY was like that.
I've seen pool regress since I started playing in the late 80s. went from 5 rooms within 40 minutes with a dozen or so 9 foot tables each down to the one buoshie room left since I closed...7 nine foot tables, 10 dollar drafts, league pool and prices high as the cotton. Nobody there would bet water is wet. About as fun as going to the library.
Pool is dead and gone here.
I've seen pool regress since I started playing in the late 80s. went from 5 rooms within 40 minutes with a dozen or so 9 foot tables each down to the one buoshie room left since I closed...7 nine foot tables, 10 dollar drafts, league pool and prices high as the cotton. Nobody there would bet water is wet. About as fun as going to the library.
Pool is dead and gone here.
The sex shops were too easy to spot, traffic and locals do not like the look. The pool rooms look better for the area, its not as obvious.
Predictable
Your comments remind me of the front room at Chris’s Pool Room on Milwaukee Ave in Chicago. The front room has no music. It is all about pool and people. A place steeped in pool history and nothing else.
Recently I was at a “pool room” actually it is a bar with pool tables. They discovered that the louder the music is the more alcohol they sold. They turned it up all night long, slowly but steadily. It was outrageous.
It got so bad my insides were shaking. So I downloaded the OSHA decibel rating app and went back on another night. It was too loud to have a conversation, so I turned on the app.
It registered an astonishing 124 decibels and went to 128!!! OSHA states prolonged sounds at over 85-90 decibels over an 8 hour shift can damage your hearing at the levels they had damage could happen in minutes.
I warned a couple people I liked and walked out for the last time. Had a similar experience at another bar pool room in the same town and left there as well.
Crazy what people will do!
Wow that is mental!
Most places i played in the past, were like that. Not that loud though, but loud enough. It would be cool to see more pool halls, like ones in this thread. I always think about the hustler movie. No music no bar, just pool.
And the that famous phase: '' this is ames, mister''
Every large city (over 100,000) in the country had a few pool rooms and at least one big one. Even small towns with less than 5,000 people had a poolroom downtown. I once estimated that I visited and played in over 300 poolrooms by the time I was 28 when I bought my first room. I played in at least two or three dozen rooms in Los Angeles alone, maybe more. I lost count, they were everywhere. Those were the days (60's and 70's) when the highways were full of roadmen (we often crossed paths and shared notes). You could make money back then playing $5 pool, with expenses so low. Fifty bucks a day was possible if you were ambitious enough to get out there every day. I was!