free pool room

[zx24]

Good on the owner!! looks like a freat place and people there look to be havin fun and thats really all that matters. If I were well off (money wise) I would be doing the same thing, good clean place where theres no riffraff, people having fun and honing there skill,
just having a good time. If people donate a few bucks to him for up keep that would be great. I would KILL!!! to find a place like that here in Calgary

Yea, we have a lot of fun.. Some gambling going on from time to time. And we eat good too....Watch movies.. Play video games.. maybe some amos and andy or keno....

 

[mark smith]

I frequented Tuckers nearly 30 years ago but it was a sure enough run for profit deal then, restaurant up front, pool room / bar in the back. Good and great players, Danny Roland, Tommy ???, Ricky Ruth, and others whose names I cannot remember, and a navy guy by the name of Rick Anderson who played and beat them all. One time the bar was lined with players and Rick was banging the balls begging any of them to play and him giving the 7. Great memories.

 

[zx24]

I frequented Tuckers nearly 30 years ago but it was a sure enough run for profit deal then, restaurant up front, pool room / bar in the back. Good and great players, Danny Roland, Tommy ???, Ricky Ruth, and others whose names I cannot remember, and a navy guy by the name of Rick Anderson who played and beat them all. One time the bar was lined with players and Rick was banging the balls begging any of them to play and him giving the 7. Great memories.

Danny Roland is dead now, Ricky Roof quit playing years ago, but rumor has it he is playing a little. Tommy Viv couldn't beat anybody. I seen him about a year ago and he looked in bad shape.Rich Anderson opened a pool room in summerville many years ago then sold it.. He isnt playing at all..The real action was in the back room playin cards and dice,,,,those were the days..

 

[ridinda9]

I might be wrong but were't there like 100 times more pool hall during the great depression than there are now? HOW COME?? How did all the pool greats back then make a living if there weren't any pool halls? How did they afford to get great? Where did the money come from to get great.

Oh, Son , a "Pool Hall" then and a pool hall today are two entirely different beasts . When you say pool hall today , you mean 20 Gc's , wall to wall carpet , air conditioning . . . .
a "Pool Hall" in the 30's meant possibly as few as 1 table , tile or concrete floors , sometimes no bar (byob) , $0.01 rack . That's right , penny a rack !
Make money on that business model today !
'Course , it was also where you bet your policy #'s , played a little dice . . .
Trouble , with a capital T that rhymes with P and stands for Pool . . .