Biloxi Boy
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Billiards Business Liquidation Sale
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No sure, sorry
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I did end up going today. glad i did
Two leather covers for 7ft tables 15 each
Two Olhausen racks 10 dollars each
1 of the shaft sleeves for a dollar i think
And a large Olhausen wall rack that i think was a steal at 45 dollars.
Two leather covers for 7ft tables 15 each
Two Olhausen racks 10 dollars each
1 of the shaft sleeves for a dollar i think
And a large Olhausen wall rack that i think was a steal at 45 dollars.
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I dont know if prices changed today compared to yesterday. but they told me those nice leaded glass fixtures were only 50.
If i could fit it my car i would have gotten one of those budweiser ones for my Dad
If i could fit it my car i would have gotten one of those budweiser ones for my Dad
Biloxi Boy
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Thanks. Looks like it is a big place and a big sale.
I think your cue rack was $110 on Friday so it looks like prices dropped.
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I was thinking something similar as well. next to those racks was a sign on the wall for prices of small medium and large racks.
Large was 90. i paid 45.
Cue ball racks were posted as 20. and i paid 10.
They were trying to clear out as much as possible.
The people running the estate sale there told me everything was half off what was posted.
That drum sander in the back room would have been 110 i think. If i had a truck that would have been gone. posted price was 200 something. iforget.
Biloxi Boy
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So is it over? When again? Possible auction?
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I was there past 1 on sat and it only went till 3. massive amount of stuff still there and boxes and boxes of supplies for pool tables.
No way most of it sold. who knows what they do with the rest. I guess you could call the estate company and ask, biloxi boy
No way most of it sold. who knows what they do with the rest. I guess you could call the estate company and ask, biloxi boy
Biloxi Boy
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I probably will as my curiosity is piqued. I've known things were bad down here, but to learn that Chicago is where it is presents another level of decline.
Maybe internet shopping put them out of business.
Or maybe they were old and just did not want to run the shop anymore and decided to cash out.
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Ha, I know you are joking.,
But i was thinking if that wall rack i got was 45 dollars when they were open. they would have been out of business a long time ago.
Biloxi Boy
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I'm still trying to understand the huge inventory of lights. At some point, you have a sale, right? Hard to figure. I just hate to see places like this close
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I am assuming of course. but i was there and saw how large the place was. I think a good amount of stuff was display items.
I never shopped there in the past.
Biloxi Boy
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It's not like Wal-Mart opened a Billiard-Mart across town and ran Cue-N-Cushion out of business. This place seems to cater to the "home" pool table crowd. I think what has happened is that we have come into a world where the upcoming generation stayed in front of TVs playing video games. We have simply failed to recruit an entire generation and demand is dead. One can get into a serious chicken/egg argument as to where the decline of pool halls fits in this scenario, but the fact is, whether they are cause or result, they are going, going . . .
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Benelli
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This!
APA and BCA need to do more at the local level to generate more youth participation. Running random semi-annual youth tourneys is not enough perhaps kid's only Saturday leagues, after-school coach/camp events, parent/child tourneys... Something.
Case in point, when you try to click on the APA link in the navigation for Junior Leagues you get a broken webpage. Can you think of a better metaphor than that...
I try to get my eight-year-old interested but since none of his friends know anything about billiards he has no interest either. I still make him watch me practice and talk through what I'm doing/seeing on the table in the vain hope that it is being recorded in his brain for future use...
From what i could find out is that its a family business and they are retiring. They had a good run, over 40yrs it looks like. There are plenty of these places still open and making money. I wouldn't read too much into one place closing.
Biloxi Boy
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This may be part of the equation -- where can kids play anymore? Bar boxes moved pool out of pool halls and into, well, bars. Used to be, there was an amount of tolerance for kids hanging out in pool halls, and so we did. There may have been some societal disapproval, but we continued with a wink. This was true even though most pool halls served alcohol, and gambling, in many forms, was rampant.
Largely, we kids knew and observed our limits, and as we grew up were given more and more liberty. My Daddy did it, and I did it, too. But, as pool relocated into the "out and out" bars, such behavior and conventions simply could not be tolerated due in no small part to ABC enforcement. Forget my wife, I would not have allowed my 12 year olds to hang out in Joe's Bar & Lounge to shoot pool. Pool Halls might could have had conducted Teen Leagues and Teen Saturdays, but bars?
There was, and is, simply a world of difference between a bar and a pool hall. There exists in either a whole different mind-set and attitude -- a whole different focus on purpose and activity, if you will -- I mean, anyone ever go to your pool hall in an attempt pick up a girl and, well . . . ? Many folks who are perfectly comfortable just frittering away whole afternoons in a pool hall would never do so in a bar. So watcha gonna do?
Largely, we kids knew and observed our limits, and as we grew up were given more and more liberty. My Daddy did it, and I did it, too. But, as pool relocated into the "out and out" bars, such behavior and conventions simply could not be tolerated due in no small part to ABC enforcement. Forget my wife, I would not have allowed my 12 year olds to hang out in Joe's Bar & Lounge to shoot pool. Pool Halls might could have had conducted Teen Leagues and Teen Saturdays, but bars?
There was, and is, simply a world of difference between a bar and a pool hall. There exists in either a whole different mind-set and attitude -- a whole different focus on purpose and activity, if you will -- I mean, anyone ever go to your pool hall in an attempt pick up a girl and, well . . . ? Many folks who are perfectly comfortable just frittering away whole afternoons in a pool hall would never do so in a bar. So watcha gonna do?
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Pool rooms thrived for a large part because of all the GI's that came home post WW2. Lot of single guys that really didn't want a 9-to-5 lifestyle. There are a lot of factors that caused the poolhall culture to change/die. Times change. the way it goes.