Correctional Officers to Open a Pool Room

[JAM]

Neelton Gooden said he learned to play pool several years ago and “fell in love with it.” But he was tired of having to go out of town for a decent pool hall.

The city had a popular pool hall on Main Street, near Capitol Avenue, until it was closed several years ago and replaced with the International Farmer’s Market.

Another pool hall, on Stratford Avenue, which the state’s top prosecutor filed a lawsuit to shut in 2014, was the site of numerous assaults and a murder.

Gooden said he hopes to create an upscale business with a family-like atmosphere that those who work and live downtown can enjoy.

So he spoke to a group of his friends and colleagues at the Department of Correction and they decided to open a billiard parlor themselves. They chose downtown because there aren’t too many options for entertainment in Bridgeport, CT.

We started looking around and we said, ‘We can do this,’” Gooden said, of the billiard parlor idea.

He said the group plans to open 4 Corners Billiards in mid-October with five pool tables in about 2,000-square-feet at 102 Bank Street., on the side of the Citytrust building.

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I remember the old Snooker's in Providence, RI used to be on the second floor where there was an old bank safe in the building. It was kind of cool!

 

[kaznj]

Sounds great. I wish you the best.

 

[Nostroke]

5 Tables-Sounds like they are opening a club for themselves-

Bridgeport is likely the poorest most run down city in CT. Rent will be cheap for sure. Good luck to them but they are not risking much. Crawl before you walk is the way to go!!

 

[Tramp Steamer]

Here's something you may not have thought of.
Correctional Officers spend a third of their lives in prison. :smile:

 

[Ak Guy]

Best wishes!

I sincerely hope the business adventure works out. We could use more decent and well run friendly pool rooms in America.

Rooms that are not full of druggies, drunks, crooks, thieves, liars, cheaters, and all around lazy worthless dirt bags. Those are the people who have given pool a bad rap and a negative image.

Well it's true..........

 

[GoldCrown]

5 tables cannot return enough to survive. Rent,utilities,insurance,....Especially with multiple partners
drawing some salary. Can't see it working out but I hope it does. I think it would have to be a restaurant/bar
with tables. How would it be zoned.
Too many owners....Someone once said the best thing about a partner is their funeral.

 

[poolguy4u]

:shrug:



So will they be doing back ground checks for people that want to play?

They should offer convicted felons a discount to play. Without them, they wouldn't have a job.




:nanner:



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[GoldCrown]

:shrug:



So will they be doing back ground checks for people that want to play?

They should offer convicted felons a discount to play. Without them, they wouldn't have a job.




:nanner:



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Yep. Run the rack...get out of jail free. Scratch...go to Jail stay in jail

 

[pt109]

The partners are going to learn the difference between a jail and a pool hall....

...when you bar a man at a pool hall, they have to stay OUT

 

[franko]

Does

5 tables cannot return enough to survive. Rent,utilities,insurance,....Especially with multiple partners
drawing some salary. Can't see it working out but I hope it does. I think it would have to be a restaurant/bar
with tables. How would it be zoned.
Too many owners....Someone once said the best thing about a partner is their funeral.

It does not sound like they are doing this to make a living but more to give themselves and the towns people a place of recreation.
I would not be surprised if they added a breakfast / snack counter to off set some of the cost.

 

[BmoreMoney]

On the bright side they probably know most of their customers by name lol

 

[BmoreMoney]

I sincerely hope the business adventure works out. We could use more decent and well run friendly pool rooms in America.

Rooms that are not full of druggies, drunks, crooks, thieves, liars, cheaters, and all around lazy worthless dirt bags. Those are the people who have given pool a bad rap and a negative image.

Well it's true..........

Well who the hell is gonna come in to play ( enough to keep the doors open ? ).
They had better have my mentality - everyone's money is green!!!!

 

[JAM]

Well, well, well. The pool room is now open in Bridgeport. It really looks nice.

4 Corners Billiards has five pool tables that are all nine-foot regulation tables, Gooden said. Within the building there is also a full bar that seats about 15 people and a lounge area that also seats about 15.

“It’s like a home away from home,” Gooden said. “When you’re here, you feel comfortable.”

The facility is a 21-and-over establishment, but Gooden said the crowd ranges from roughly 25- to 70-year-olds, give or take.

Source: Pool Hall Adds to Downtown Bridgeport Scene [Retrieved 12 December 2016]

 

[JAM]

I wonder why they chose the 4-ball. Look at those high ceilings!

 

[JAM]

I wish we had a pool room like this in my neck of the woods.

 

[JAM]

They've got liquor. Check out the safe from the old Citytrust building. They kept it.

 

[Maxx]

I wonder why they chose the 4-ball. Look at those high ceilings!

Not sure, but 4 guys started the business and it's called "4 Corners Billiards."

Looks nice, kind of old school.

 

[spktur]

They've got liquor. Check out the safe from the old Citytrust building. They kept it.

That's probably where they keep the Pappy Van Winkle

 

[book collector]

Here's something you may not have thought of.
Correctional Officers spend a third of their lives in prison. :smile:

Seems they have pool tables in some prisons, which I personnally think is ridiculous.
I have seen first hand what a pool cue can do to someone , so putting them in the hands of prisoners is sort of uh, uh, goofy.
Plus, it sort of takes the punishment part away if you can play pool all day, get fed and watch tv and loaf around all day.
That doesn't sound so bad to me.
Going to a job you hate , gives that the 5 out in my mind. If you don't think that's a prison , you didn't hate the job bad enough.

 

[Rackemep]

That's a nice looking pool room! Wish we had something like that out here in my area!