It was just 69 years ago tomorrow

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deanoc

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Little Dean had been up all night trying to hear reindeer or jolly st nick

when it finally got light I woke my mom and dad up and we went to the living room where we had alittle tree with flashing lights on

Guess whayt I got? A pool table,about 2x4 with legs that folded like a card table.

My neir do well uncle came over and showed me a 3 rail in the corner shot with those little clay balls.

uncle Jimmy told me stories about UJ puckett and mom and dad didn't realize what was happening to their son.

I am sure we all have memories and I guess this is the time for those

Best wishes to all you guys
merry christmas and Happy Pool
Dean
 
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53 years ago The dairy far next to me had a table in their basement. I was invited downstairs to see it but was not allowed to play, I was devastated and it must have shown. The mother of the house saw my disappointment and told her boys to let me try a shot but they only let me roll a ball across the table once.

I rolled it and the ball found a pocket and the rest is history, I was seven.

The addiction.
 
On Dec 29th it will be 53 years that Fatboy (for better or worse) showed up in Castro Valley Ca. Bucktooth had a room there back then but I wasn’t tall enough to play.

Happy Christmas everyone

Fatboy🎄
 
Tomorrow will be 56 years since my parents bought a pool table when I was 14. I had been saving up to buy a pool table from the Sears catalogue that cost about $120 at that time. Had managed to save about $80 up to that point. I had never actually played pool - but in the early 1960’s it was often on tv, and I was sucked in by the colorful balls and the geometry of the game. The table was an 8’ AMF with a honeycomb bed surface - not slate. The honeycomb surface could and would dent if a ball was bounced too hard - had to make sure that my friends that came over to play were careful and respected the equipment. It also came with Willie Mosconi’s instructional paperback book - so when not playing 8 ball, I was practicing straight pool at that age. Had a lot of good times on that table - it was the best Christmas present I ever received.
 
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59 years ago my dad bought an old Brunswick Madison table to put in a tiny rental house behind where we lived..He was a partner in a little 3 table room.He thought that table would keep us out of the pool rooms (wrong)we got pretty good & there ya go
 
47 years ago tomorrow I got my first pool cue from a girlfriend I later married.
I still have that pool cue. I got rid of her after just a couple years!

That says a lot about pool cues, don't it?!
 
deanoc said:
Little Dean had been up all night trying to hear reindeer or jolly st nick

when it finally got light I woke my mom and dad up and we went to the living room where we had alittle tree with flashing lights on

Guess whayt I got? A pool table,about 2x4 with legs that folded like a card table.

My neir do well uncle came over and showed me a 3 rail in the corner shot with those little clay balls.

uncle Jimmy told me stories about UJ puckett and mom and dad didn't realize what was happening to their son.

I am sure we all have memories and I guess this is the time for those

Best wishes to all you guys
merry christmas and Happy Pool
Dean
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Great story Dean

Merry Christmas
 
Dont remember the day, month, or year, but I love the game like my own life.


Merry Christmas to all you crazy pool players hitting balls in futility.

May your stroke be true and your speed be accurate.
Jason
 
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In my small(sc town) it was around 1980 and i was 13...the pool room had 2 bar boxes lol...but about 6 guys were playing 1 on the 5 and 2 on the 9 ring game...hmmm how could i turn my 5 a week allowance into enough money to actually “do something”...it started then....(by the way,a road player came through that first year or two and got busted by our local champion,bryan ezell from new bern nc actually,so he needed to sell his cue for 70 bucks...said it was a kersenbrock!! Lol we told him no way were gonna pay that when we can get a meucci for that price!,!lol my chance at a holy grail and i,ll never forget it...
 
jayburger missed out on a kisenbrock for $80
not so smart

But wait,I was sitting with Willie Mosconi in Ft Worth bach in the 89s admiring his cue
a fancy Balabushks,willie was signing pictures for me and he said let me sell you my Balabushka for $2700 and I will sign it


i looked at Willie and said"you must be crazy,$2700 for one cue"

He smiled

Later the cue went for around $100,000 and I was moing around when Dennis Gleen asked me "why so glum chum?"
"i was thinking bout losing $100,000" said I

One of the things about Denny is his penetrating insight and cheerful ness

He said ,"forget it,you only lost $1000"
How?
Well if you had bought it ,you would have sold it to me and made $1000 profit


I felt a lot better,having saved $99,000

merry christmas to you
 
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