How To Sell Pool, by Brunswick...
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I know it's a company produced video but I love how the video solely credits the brunswick gold crown for the billiard boom(starts around the 2 minute mark), (what about the hustler?)what was the individual impact of each in comparison . I would love to hear some thoughts from the people who actually lived it...
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But the table in your avatar does, so you are not as offended by the practice as it seems...:thumbup:
Boom? That's a bit of a stretch. I'm 62 BTW. Brunswick built a ton of bowling alleys, and put game rooms in with Gold Crown tables in the bowling alleys much the same as they had pinballs and soda and candy machines. It was pretty cheap to play by the hour.
That era lasted until the bowling industry fell apart. Times have changed....the pool "boom" was pretty much a blip...it didn't really happen.
Don't let anybody kid you..in the early days ESPN would put pretty much anything on the air including pool to fill time between bigger sports events. It was the cheapest shows they could produce at the time. A room with a few spectators, a couple cameras, cheap production costs, and low level announcers.
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I need a light, I just have really high ceilings and I don't know how to do it? It was just an observation. I'm not opposed or offended, I just noticed it.
I wasn't around in the 50's or 60's. Was Billiards really twice as popular of a participant sport as Golf back then, like the chart on the video says?
If it wasn't for The Hustler and COM pool would have been dead long ago. First came the Hustler then the Color of Money, then Brunswick trying to make pool squeaky clean, calling it pocket billiards and pink, black, and red cloth...and the BCA went right along with them. Those movies that got so many into the game were about gambling, not the Brady Bunch goes out to play pool. Johnnyt
Pools not dead...,
Pool is only dead for the purest, you guys that want to walk in and see action on every table like the good old days. You guys want a trick to walk in and dump his whole pay check, like the good old days.
Well that pool is dead, but pool is doing well in many parts of the country for the owner that wants to sale a ton of liquor and have a party. Pool is also doing well in Japan, China, Europe, everywhere but here.
I miss the good old days too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3g0n2XP3IA
Pool is only dead for the purest, you guys that want to walk in and see action on every table like the good old days. You guys want a trick to walk in and dump his whole pay check, like the good old days.
Well that pool is dead, but pool is doing well in many parts of the country for the owner that wants to sale a ton of liquor and have a party. Pool is also doing well in Japan, China, Europe, everywhere but here.
I miss the good old days too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3g0n2XP3IA
Boy, I enjoyed that video. Why? Because with the exception of Willie, I have a better stroke than anyone else. Sure wish I could find a place like that.
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Bobby was a stone cold hustler! Gambling was his game'
http://youtu.be/m05TNzdA6l0
http://youtu.be/1vCTgYmLEQE
Rob.M
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Bobby was a stone cold hustler! Gambling was his game'
http://youtu.be/m05TNzdA6l0
http://youtu.be/1vCTgYmLEQE
Rob.M
The Lady southpaw in the black and white checkered dress at around 7:00 looked like a hustler. Right bridge, chalked it up like a pool shark and she drew the cue ball back to rail like she wanted it there. Damn...