Understandably, not everyone was a fan of these giant "man-malls"...
Part of the reason they came about in the first place was to compete with the "private" billiard clubs, which had all the comforts of home, none of the riff raff off the street, and no nagging wives...
But, as you might expect, the huge new establishments tended to run the smaller billiard rooms out of business, only to close down themselves after only a few years from the huge overhead involved. (And they allowed women!)
The huge multi-story billiard rooms were unaffectionately dubbed "plants" ( as in factories)...or "gold mines" ....and then later when they failed to stay in busines, "gold bricks"...
If they were lucky enough to still be in business in 1930, the great depression saw to it that they didn't last any longer.