Billiard Room - Sands Bowl, Lancaster, CA, circa 1959
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docgpmiller
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Definitely Old School- Very nice picture 
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Cool photo.
That is cool!! What a beautiful place. They have bowling in back too!!
I think you have juxtaposed the arrangement of the rooms. Brunswick was huge in bowling & typically the lanes
were the lion’s share of the business. The pool room usually had smaller revenue since leagues weren’t popular yet.
The pool rooms in bowling alleys had fewer tables and was essentially a side stream revenue to bowling alley income.
Brunswick offered a package rental arrangement leasing all the equipment for a bowling alley only, or a pool parlor
only, or a combination. But the equipment had to be Brunswick. They’d rent you everything from fountain set-up, to lockers and counter displays. Essentially they were trying to be the one stop provider for your bowling & pool needs.
L.S. Dennis
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I remember these kind of places, here in Ca we used to be full of them. I remember seeing Mosconi due an exhibition at Camino Bowl in Mt. View California. These type of places are almost all gone now.
Did the name tip you off?
No lights for tables...
I noticed that too. I suppose the three can lights above each table was the Mid-Century Modern streamlined alternative.
Wow!!!!!!
Very cool picture and time!!!! And a parking lot full of tri-five Chevy's. What I would give to have one of those tables now.
I don't see any Tri-Five Chevy's but I do see a '56 Pontiac or Olds (tough to make out).
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The old Belmont Theater at Belmont Ash;and and Lincoln in Chicago turned into a bowling alley/Billiards place around 1964.
Jimmy Caras represented Brunswick and gave an exhibition, Artie Bodendorfer and I had a match there, straight pool at that time,
before he became the one pocket player everyone talks about today.
Good old days.
56 olds/pontiac
59 chevy wagon
58 mercury tail along side the chevy wagon
53 olds tail left side of pic
56 ford at front of building next to a 47 or 48 something.
and open 24 hours to boot!
I googled "The Victors" but found nothing.