Have you ever visited a pool hall with really good house cues?

I have seen a couple of pool halls now in New York that are using the Rhino carbon fiber house cues. They're pretty good, but definitely require a decent investment since they're about double the cost or more of the wood ones.
 
All the house cues were new Willie Hoppe signature one-piece. I shouldda bought all of them when the room closed
 
hang-the-9 said:
I have seen a couple of pool halls now in New York that are using the Rhino carbon fiber house cues. They're pretty good, but definitely require a decent investment since they're about double the cost or more of the wood ones.
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they will last longer so that's a good investment.
 
Bavafongoul said:
Back in the late 60’s, there were house cues still in pretty good condition. I remember because when you found a cue
you really liked, you’d try storing it in some obscure location in the pool hall always hoping that no one would find it.
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I lived in Evansville IN for a few years, and would go to this weekly bar tournament. There was a pretty good player who played with the same house cue every week, he said. He loved that cue. Some drunk idiot drove his car into the bar late one night, and that building was condemned, by the city. Seen that same guy at a different tournament, and he was so sad that he lost the use of that house cue. He wanted to get ahold of the owner, to somehow get it, lol. No idea if he was ever able to though. The guy played really good with it too. Must have been a really good house cue.
 
alphadog said:
Clicks used to have all top notch house cues and decent tables. The owners said if the equipment is good the customers will stay longer and return more often.


I went into a old small pool hall in a small college town. Amongst the many poor cues I found 2 very nice 59" 4 point one piece cues with rosewood butts. I offered the owner 300.00 for both. He said no those are cues the old guys playing snooker use. Well less then a month later the bar shut down and liquidated. Those cues were not in the auction.
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Interesting story.
 
ribdoner said:
i travelled to charlotte for a couple days a mo on biz between 79 and 96

pool room called Dillworth Billiards in an upscale area that had 20+- Richard Black cues which frequent customers could use

iirc the most embellished was a "bushka" model
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I have a polo shirt from there.
 
vintagecollectibles831 said:
I lived in Evansville IN for a few years, and would go to this weekly bar tournament. There was a pretty good player who played with the same house cue every week, he said. He loved that cue. Some drunk idiot drove his car into the bar late one night, and that building was condemned, by the city. Seen that same guy at a different tournament, and he was so sad that he lost the use of that house cue. He wanted to get ahold of the owner, to somehow get it, lol. No idea if he was ever able to though. The guy played really good with it too. Must have been a really good house cue.
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I was playing in the APA city 1st round in my only APA session in 2000 at Lanhucks and someone drove into the building. Since it was during my match I couldn't even go outside to see what happened but I remembered seeing kids earlier playing on the sidewalk which were lucky not to get killed!

The Fox and Hound had 2 piece cues that were glued together, I think they had league there and someone noticed the shafts were identical to their Mali shaft and got one unscrewed! My hometown bar in Fort Branch would always have a few nice wood cues and then got some cuetech type one pieces that were solid cues and lasted for over a decade. I only brought my cue in on free pool nights, anywhere else I've played the house cues were unusable!
 
ribdoner said:
i travelled to charlotte for a couple days a mo on biz between 79 and 96

pool room called Dillworth Billiards in an upscale area that had 20+- Richard Black cues which frequent customers could use

iirc the most embellished was a "bushka" model
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Sounds like my kind of pool hall.
 
When Barley's Billiards opened in the mid 90s in Atlanta they had 2 piece plain McDermotts in different colors.

My original pool joint, Fox Pool Room in Girard, Illinois, had old crap left over from World War One. The owner would retip these old cues, but never finish them. just glue a new tip on, crooked, off-center, however. Fifteen foot ceilings with tin panels, the walls were painted.....I kid you not....very light pink.
 
When i started playing roughly 50 yrs ago they had nice Dufferin cues on the racks very few had their own cues.Today most have their own cues and lucky if you see a dufferin or 2 on the racks.
 
Top Hat in Baltimore, MD had Joss house cues. Can’t get better than that.
 
Yes. There was an upscale room in the Atlanta suburbs in the '80s (I forgot the name) that had McDermott jointed cues, merry widow style (maybe D-1s, D-2s and D-3s) in like new shape that you could rent for $1,00 and use them as long as you were there. My memory has faded but I believe that if you didn't bring your own cue you had to rent one of theirs, but with table time on the high side for that era (maybe $10.00 per hour for the table no matter how many players?), the $1.00 rent seemed cheap.
 
Logandgriff said:
Yes. There was an upscale room in the Atlanta suburbs in the '80s (I forgot the name) that had McDermott jointed cues, merry widow style (maybe D-1s, D-2s and D-3s) in like new shape that you could rent for $1,00 and use them as long as you were there. My memory has faded but I believe that if you didn't bring your own cue you had to rent one of theirs, but with table time on the high side for that era (maybe $10.00 per hour for the table no matter how many players?), the $1.00 rent seemed cheap.
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The Old Jaybird above is talking about the place I mentioned. Barley's Billiards!
 
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