Does it stop being fun?

Yes at one time here in Montana there was a Corner Pocket Billiards in many of the larger towns complete with 9' tables a snooker table and even a few bar tables for pool league play.
As for the cowboy bars or at least the one's I've been in there never was anything other than the 3 1/2 x 7 tables .
When the oil boom went away and with it the expendable cash so did the Corner Pocket Billiards halls and with it the 9' tables it's like it was mentioned on here somewhere a keno or poker machine brings in more quarters quicker than any pool table .

I'm a young pup compared to many but I've not seen a pool table in a barbershop but have in seniors centers and bowling alleys and I've only seen dominoes played on tv and I'm a young at heart fella in my early 60's ha ha
 
Biloxi Boy said:
Nothing can substitute for a local pool room and a circle of friends who can be counted on to show up on a regular basis. These are places of refuge and serve many functions beyond a game of pool. If you know these places, you know what "pool" is, or should be, and how much is being lost. If you think a bar with valleys is pool, then you really can't understand.
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^ (y)!
 
pwd72s said:
I think, for me, pool stopped being fun last week. Playing on a 9' table meant a 90 miles round trip for me, most of it on a 2 lane jammed up freeway...just going to the hall puts me in a foul mood. Then (turned 78 today) the physical problems of old age limits me to only a couple of hours of table time before pain & tiredness stops me.
It saddens me...but yeah, I think I'm done...it's just not fun anymore.
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I walk down two flights of steps, turn on a light, rack the balls, joint the cue.

It's still fun for me. You might consider getting your own table.
 
pwd72s said:
I think, for me, pool stopped being fun last week. Playing on a 9' table meant a 90 miles round trip for me, most of it on a 2 lane jammed up freeway...just going to the hall puts me in a foul mood. Then (turned 78 today) the physical problems of old age limits me to only a couple of hours of table time before pain & tiredness stops me.
It saddens me...but yeah, I think I'm done...it's just not fun anymore.
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I had the same problem. Had to drive seventy five miles one way to the nearest pool hall. Put an eight footer in my living room. Made my girlfriend mad so she dumped me. Still enjoying pool at 68 and I don't have to put up with that female. I can play at the hall when I happen to be in that town. Oh, sorry, first post. Hi everyone!
 
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