During the late 70's and early 80's when there were almost no poolrooms near where I live (until pretty much The Color of Money came out), a friend of mine and I used to take a run down to the world famous
Golden Banana on Rte 1 on the north shore just up about 20 miles from Boston. They had two 8' tables off to the side of the stage -- not really a bad angle to both shoot pool and watch. The door to the girl's make-up room was also near there, IIRC. Anyway, several of them hung out near the tables between sets. I was always impressed how some of them would read -- as in read a book -- while they killed time. They were a lot brighter than my preconceived notion would have guessed 
We always had fun and did all right, at the tables...
There was (and still is) also The Cabaret across the street, but at that time the pool table was farther from the stage. Nowadays there is a good poolroom almost right through the parking lot from the Cabaret -- World Class Billiards, home room of Three Cushion champion Mazin Shooni. "Honey, I'm going to be playing pool today. Where? At World Class..."


We always had fun and did all right, at the tables...
There was (and still is) also The Cabaret across the street, but at that time the pool table was farther from the stage. Nowadays there is a good poolroom almost right through the parking lot from the Cabaret -- World Class Billiards, home room of Three Cushion champion Mazin Shooni. "Honey, I'm going to be playing pool today. Where? At World Class..."