9BallPaul
Banned
Spent some time tonight chatting up Hank and kidding him about the thread that's been bobbing up for the past few months:
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=241364&highlight=hank's
Yeah, the sign is still up: Bottled water $1.
I ordered a Dos Equis, as did Mrs. 9BP (who is genuinely horrified by Hank's and how slummy she finds it. She was the only female present on a Friday night.)
Hank talked about the room's history. It was born in November1963 as the Family Fun Center (it's now outlived JFK) and was once on the loop for every road man in the country. Staton, Buddy Hall, Eddie Taylor, Keith McCready, etc. In those days (the '60s) the local top cue was a guy named Andy Hudson. You could find him at the Fun Center any Friday or Saturday night. Sometimes Bill Stroud came through and the place would stay open 'til the sun came up.
And we laughed about old Omaha Fats, aka Fat Marty, who pretty much died in that place. What a character.
Hank's room is decrepit, to put it kindly. The sign fronting West 38th Avenue announces "Paradise Billiards" (the former name) and the sign over the rear entrance by the parking lot says "Family Fun Center."
"I'm working on that," Hank said, asked about the sign situation. And he laughed about the bottled-water thread. Hank's and old-school guy who doesn't much care about the Internet, much less read AZ.
Here's to Hank.
Before leaving, I asked for a bottle of water to go. I paid him a bean and tipped him likewise.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=241364&highlight=hank's
Yeah, the sign is still up: Bottled water $1.
I ordered a Dos Equis, as did Mrs. 9BP (who is genuinely horrified by Hank's and how slummy she finds it. She was the only female present on a Friday night.)
Hank talked about the room's history. It was born in November1963 as the Family Fun Center (it's now outlived JFK) and was once on the loop for every road man in the country. Staton, Buddy Hall, Eddie Taylor, Keith McCready, etc. In those days (the '60s) the local top cue was a guy named Andy Hudson. You could find him at the Fun Center any Friday or Saturday night. Sometimes Bill Stroud came through and the place would stay open 'til the sun came up.
And we laughed about old Omaha Fats, aka Fat Marty, who pretty much died in that place. What a character.
Hank's room is decrepit, to put it kindly. The sign fronting West 38th Avenue announces "Paradise Billiards" (the former name) and the sign over the rear entrance by the parking lot says "Family Fun Center."
"I'm working on that," Hank said, asked about the sign situation. And he laughed about the bottled-water thread. Hank's and old-school guy who doesn't much care about the Internet, much less read AZ.
Here's to Hank.
Before leaving, I asked for a bottle of water to go. I paid him a bean and tipped him likewise.
