Just for fun

garczar said:
Did he have a table in the basement? If so i wonder who has it. Glenn collection maybe?
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Yes he did, if you go on YouTube (I think that's where I saw it) there's a clip called 'The Basement Tapes" in which he is shown with several guests and him demonstating some pool shots and techniques to all his guests. You can see on that tape that this is clearly the same basement as in that real estate photos.
 
middleofnowhere said:
Been in that house and hit balls on his table when he was alive. Surprisingly the table was just a pretty good home model table, not professional quality at all. You would expect a Gold Crown.

The guy who worked on my tables also set up Gleason's table He told me he was going there to do something and I tagged along. It was crazy what Gleason wanted. The table had leather on the tops of the rails. You know where the Formica would be on a GC. He had an idea to remove the leather and cover them with copper.
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All table funniness aside, that room is just a dream. If there is pool in heaven, the rooms look like this one.
 
L.S. Dennis said:
Yes he did, if you go on YouTube (I think that's where I saw it) there's a clip called 'The Basement Tapes" in which he is shown with several guests and him demonstating some pool shots and techniques to all his guests. You can see on that tape that this is clearly the same basement as in that real estate photos.
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that pool table is not in a basement that's just a ground floor room. His house and lauderhill if you dug a basement you'd be standing in three feet of water this is Florida.
I found a 60 minute interview and that's not the lauderhill house it may be his Miami house.

While not "The" table this is the model table that was in the house when I was there. In the little article here they mentioned the padded rails which on Gleasons were real leather.

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middleofnowhere said:
that pool table is not in a basement that's just a ground floor room. His house and lauderhill if you dug a basement you'd be standing in three feet of water this is Florida.
I found a 60 minute interview and that's not the lauderhill house it may be his Miami house.

While not "The" table this is the model table that was in the house when I was there. In the little article here they mentioned the padded rails which on Gleasons were real leather.

1970s Brunswick Resurrection | DK Billiards

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Technically I agree with you, it looked more like a ground floor room than a basement. The real estate listing called it a 'walk out' basement in Mosconi's New Jersey home described above.
 
I've got kind of a funny story about celebrities and pool tables. There's a billiard supply in Miami called Brant billiard supply. I used to go in there all the time and get stuff because this was long before the internet and if you wanted something you went in the store that sold it. If you wanted a part for bicycle you went to the bicycle store wanted some pool chalk you went to a billiard supply.

I'm in there one day and they're loading a table in the truck to be delivered. Wes who owned the place tells me the table is going to Richard Nixon's house I think on key Biscayne. While interesting, no big deal because Miami and South Florida in general is full of celebrities. Frankie Laine the rawhide singer used to come in my pool room.

A couple weeks later I'm at Brent's and I mentioned to him how did it go with the Nixon deal. And he starts laughing. He tells me when they got there they got searched the truck got searched the tools got searched every part of the table was examined before they were allowed to go in.

Then they get inside and he says the room is not nearly big enough for a pool table you hit all four walls with the cue stick. He questioned are they sure this is where they want the table and they got told yes just set it up the best you can.

Years later with the internet and reading about Nixon I saw that when he was president he had reestablished the game room in the White House and there's a picture of it with a pool table there. So it's likely Nixon did like to play pool. I know he loved to play poker.

Just using my imagination because we know Nixon was kind of quirky with stories of him walking around the White House talking to the paintings on the walls at night. I pictured him in his Miami home in that little room with the pool table knocking balls around by himself not caring at all that you couldn't really play on it.
 
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tomatoshooter said:
That's an easy million in the SF bay area, probably $450K here in Sacramento. It's a little tough to say, finding similar houses in similar neighborhoods, lot size, location, etc.
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That's not an exaggeration, about the easy million in the SF area. If it were down here on the peninsula 1.5 wouldn't be out of the question.
 
L.S. Dennis said:
That's not an exaggeration, about the easy million in the SF area. If it were down here on the peninsula 1.5 wouldn't be out of the question.
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I remember seeing a small house (<1000 sf) in Palo Alto for about a million. It probably had a moderately sized yard, just an average working class house from probably the late 40s. Insane.
 
tomatoshooter said:
I remember seeing a small house (<1000 sf) in Palo Alto for about a million. It probably had a moderately sized yard, just an average working class house from probably the late 40s. Insane.
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Is it any wonder why there's never a major pool tournament scheduled out in this area, it's just too damn expensive for anyone to entertain the idea of putting anything on out here. During the boom of the 90's after the Color Of Money came out there were several fairly nice rooms that opened up they're all gone now. Family Billiards in SF is still there, but pretty much everything else is gone this side of the bay. I think there's one in San Mateo but that's about it. Shame...
 
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