Small World
I knew Dick when he and I were teenagers playing at Stardust Bowl in Hammond, Indiana back in the sixties. We usually played each other on sight. Stardust was a great all night action spot that drew Chicago players as well as road players regularly. Dick knew me as "Red" at that time, we had quite a crew of characters there at that time.
I hadn't seen Dick for something like thirty years, when I ran into him in a pool room in Florida. I lived in South Florida for almost thirty years, and coincidentally was a friend of Bob Manzino's also, in the nineties. In fact I still own on of the first sticks Bob ever made in 95., a beautiful cocobolo wrapless that still looks. and plays wonderful. I remember sitting with Bob in little shop in Boca while he made mine and other cues. Bob was and still is a fantastic cuemaker, and a great guy.
Today, I play one pocket in the Baltimore area with Bobs cue (which still gets a lot of compliments), What a small world, and great memories of Dick and Bob in another time.
Darrell Randolph (Red):smile:
