Pete Marovich
New member
Hello everyone
For my project about the current state of pool in America, POOL - A Game on the Wire, I am researching the OLD Society Billiards not to be confused with the newer one in operation in NYC.
Supposedly there were multiple locations including one in NYC. I know there is a newer one now, but do you know anything about the one in the poster attached.
What I know: The room in the poster called Society Billiards was on 21st Street, opening in the late 1980s.
Apparently it was in a basement and competing with one of the most saturated pool markets in the country, with The Billiard Club running more than forty tables, Chelsea Billiards fielding fifty-four, and Mammoth Billiards and Pockets adding still more capacity within walking distance.
Society Billiards was eventually acquired by the Mammoth Corporation, which was consolidating pool rooms across the city at the time, and the space was renamed Broadway Billiards, its hourly rate dropped to Mammoth’s standard rate and its hours extended to run around the clock. Broadway Billiards itself closed for good in the late 2000s, ending more than two decades of continuous pool play at that address.
Anyone have any information?
For my project about the current state of pool in America, POOL - A Game on the Wire, I am researching the OLD Society Billiards not to be confused with the newer one in operation in NYC.
Supposedly there were multiple locations including one in NYC. I know there is a newer one now, but do you know anything about the one in the poster attached.
What I know: The room in the poster called Society Billiards was on 21st Street, opening in the late 1980s.
Apparently it was in a basement and competing with one of the most saturated pool markets in the country, with The Billiard Club running more than forty tables, Chelsea Billiards fielding fifty-four, and Mammoth Billiards and Pockets adding still more capacity within walking distance.
Society Billiards was eventually acquired by the Mammoth Corporation, which was consolidating pool rooms across the city at the time, and the space was renamed Broadway Billiards, its hourly rate dropped to Mammoth’s standard rate and its hours extended to run around the clock. Broadway Billiards itself closed for good in the late 2000s, ending more than two decades of continuous pool play at that address.
Anyone have any information?
