Another mystery man
- Thread starter L.S. Dennis
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L.S. Dennis
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Yes it’s Jimmy Wise, I learned a lot from him back in the early 60’s. He taught Dorothy how to play when she was in her early 30’s prior to their marriage I don’t she ever knew how to play. What a fountain of pool knowledge both he and Tugboat posseded.
Bob‘s post of someone indicating he has a copy of the LP is correct I beliecve the album dates back to the mid 60;s sometime. I remember running into Dorothy in 1969 in Mt. View and she was selling it at that time. Like I said I wished I would have bought a copy of it back then.
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middleofnowhere
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I took a guess from the extra clue his wife played pool. Weren't many back then. I knew it wasn't Alton Whitlow.
That is L.P. Records. If you click the pic is says so right there.
L.S. Dennis
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Jimmy Wise was a person with a dry sense of humor to say the least. We kids with our new Hoppe Cues would at times run up to the counter where Jimmy would be intently reading the paper through his Coke bottle thick glasses and say “Jimmy I just ran 25 balls” at which point not even looking up from his paper would say in an absolute monotone voice
”Ya did can you imagine that” deflating our ego to say the least!
God help you if you got on his bad side, I remember the worst thing one could possibly do is to ask for a table and then upon arriving at the table turn over the tray of balls directly on the table. That would bring Jimmy out from behind the counter like a shot. He’d go over the and ask the players if they knew where Mel’s Bowl was (Mel’s had some pool tables there recently installed) they would say sure,, at which point Jimmy would say ‘Good take a hike and get out of here”! Jimmy ran a tight ship there at Sequoia Billiards in Redwood City.
For some reason he took a liking to me and showed me a lot in those early years.
”Ya did can you imagine that” deflating our ego to say the least!
God help you if you got on his bad side, I remember the worst thing one could possibly do is to ask for a table and then upon arriving at the table turn over the tray of balls directly on the table. That would bring Jimmy out from behind the counter like a shot. He’d go over the and ask the players if they knew where Mel’s Bowl was (Mel’s had some pool tables there recently installed) they would say sure,, at which point Jimmy would say ‘Good take a hike and get out of here”! Jimmy ran a tight ship there at Sequoia Billiards in Redwood City.
For some reason he took a liking to me and showed me a lot in those early years.