Do you remember when?

Cardigan Kid said:
Jay, those are some serious heavyweights of Hollywood history you listed there...I'm wondering was there also a respect for the equipment back then to the point where any of those big stars had a gold crown installed in their homes?

Or back then, was a table just a table?

Did players look to play on serious equipment with various pocket sizes?
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All of the above had tables in their homes, most of them beautiful Gold Crowns. They were serious about the game and wanted only the best equipment.
And the answer to the second question is a resounding YES! The best players were always looking for the best equipment to play on, not unlike today. Many of the top players refused to play on bar tables, calling them toys and worse.

P.S. Ronnie Allen carried his own set of balls for big money matches, just like Mosconi always did for his exhibitions. Ed Kelly had a blue circle cue ball he kept in his case. I saw Richie search through several sets of balls before he found a cue ball he liked, before starting a serious money game. The top players always wanted tight pockets for the major tournaments and that's why we went a little over the top at the Peter Vitalie Invitational in Los Angeles in 1987. There has never been (before or since) a major pool tournament played on pockets this tight. You could literally hang a ball in the very deep jaws of a corner pocket and you could not hit the ball going down the rail! Shooting an object ball down the rail was a very tricky proposition, just like on a snooker table, and I saw many balls missed from two diamonds out! Sigel missed one like that in his semifinal match against Efren, although he did go on to win the match.
 
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Frankenstroke said:
...the best players carried Fellini cases. No need for pouches, jump cues, break cues,
break/jump cues, personal triangles, personal bridge heads, $30 chalk, gloves.
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When i got my Richard Black in '82 he said for an extra 55bux he'd ship it in a Fellini!! Those WERE the days.
 
I remember when it was frowned upon in most places to duck and play safe and also people would make fun of you if you used the bridge some of them referred to it as having to use "the granny crutch"

Ahhh, the good old days. :rolleyes:

I also remember back when everybody wasn't a nit and a money game was possible without so much painful effort.
 
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Kickin' Chicken said:
I remember when it was frowned upon in most places to duck and play safe and also people would make fun of you if you used the bridge some of them referred to it as having to use "the granny crutch"

Ahhh, the good old days. :rolleyes:

I also remember back when everybody wasn't a nit and a money game was possible without so much painful effort.
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$5 9-Ball and $20 One Pocket were standard money games between players way back in the 60's! Some things never change. :rolleyes:
 
I remember....



...it's when I started this damn game of 1-P that just won't end!!!!!!!! Help, I'm trapped in a Chinese laundry with a pool table in the back!!!!!!!



Jeff Livingston
 
whammo57 said:
who the hell is Fellini ???
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Fellini was a great movie director from Italy in the 50s and 60s who made really weird movies that no one could understand. So, since he couldn't make any money doing that, he started making cue cases that all looked exactly the same except for the color but every pool player who ever lived bought at least one. So he made enough $$$ doing that to make one last movie, about pool, coincidentally, called The Color of Money. But, because he was from Italy and didn't speak any English and since he liked making movies that were weird, Color of Money made no sense whatsoever but everyone who couldn't lay pool loved it and he made a fortune and retired...

That's who Fellini was...
 
chefjeff said:
I remember....



...it's when I started this damn game of 1-P that just won't end!!!!!!!! Help, I'm trapped in a Chinese laundry with a pool table in the back!!!!!!!



Jeff Livingston
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Doesn't the table get a lil sticky back there? Must be humid as hell in a Chinese laundry! :eek:
 
chefjeff said:
Confucius say, Man trapped in Chinese laundry playing pool is all washed up.


Jeff Livingston
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Confucius also said "Man who takes it in ear while playing $5 9-ball on sticky table n Chinese laundry is f**ked in head."

But he was jus sayin;...
 
Finding the perfect house cue and working to get the tip just right.
I'd cut a small notch in the butt so it was easy to find, but to be safe you'd hide it in the most out of the way cue rack.
 
rtbbf said:
hmmmm....black ferrules comes to mind,keno,41 and chili dogs
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I had Meucci put a black ferrule on one of my new cues.! And, it LOVES chili dogs too!!!


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jayman said:
I remember when only a 13mm tip had any value. No manly man would buy a cue less than 19.0 oz. no one needed a cue longer than 58" Chalk was chalk was chalk. Only a women would wear a glove to play pool. Did I miss any?
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Black shafts were for beginners and bangers. And Ricky Schroeder.
 
and, oh yeah, cigarettes burning on the formica rails while the player smoking it was shooting. Sometimes it was placed in a GC corner ashtray. Or it just stayed on his lip.

and the time clock stamping your time to settle up.
 
woodyosborne said:
my age is showing: 35 cents an hr college freshman year in '71 only saw one 2 piece cue that i remember; a brunswick 4 point, probably a titlist.
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Yeah,early 70's
50 cents an hour during the day and at 5:00 pm the price went to 75 cents.Most house cues hardly had a tip and they sure did not have a nickel shape.
 
I remember when 75% of the cues for sale on AZB were brand new Titlist conversions,
and a purple heart one was at a premium.
 
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