Largest Pool Halls in the USA?
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I don’t know about that. The owner had a successful pool room in Ohio for many years so the whole concept of this place made no sense. Not sure what the business model was but it was a very short and strange business.
The 24 hour coffee shop is a great place for breakfast right nearby. They thought it was all very strange too. My wife and I stopped there for years on our trips to Asheville..
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NDSU Memorial Union has 8 GCs. Spent waaaay too much time down there and not enough studying and doing homework. Need to get back in a bad way.Here's a related question: What's the biggest college campus pool room these days?
In the early to mid-70's I used to travel throughout the entire eastern half of the country showing bootleg 16mm films on college campuses, and during the week that gave me plenty of time to shoot pool. At that point I believe the student union at Purdue had the biggest pool room in the entire state of Indiana, and the student unions at IU, UNC / Chapel Hill, Illinois / Champaign-Urbana, Maryland / College Park, LSU and Kansas were also pretty sporty. Kansas even had a vintage Brunswick 5 x 10, and on it I beat a KU basketball player out of $100. That was one of the not so many highlights of my pool career.
Do any of these campus pool rooms still exist today? I tend to doubt it, but who knows?
Fargo Billiards has 56 tables. Mostly Diamonds if I remember correctly.
Shooters in MN has 64 including the 2 coin op boxes.
That's why I wear earbuds.I think music selection is part of running a great establishment, I don't think the jukebox should belong to the customer in a hall with 20+ tables. Why should I suffer someone else's bullshit music choice?
Get lost in my own mix. Don't have to listen to whatever's playing and can't hear all the chatter.
I have often wondered about that myself. Owner - Bobby Goad - was from Ft Worth, had a fairly successful bar and pool business here.
He and his pretty wife, Janet, moved to Colorado Springs and opened first Pinkies. Named after his wife's fingernails, I think.
Janet always wore hot pink nail polish and had a little diamond (?) on her pink nail polished pinkie.
Bobby and Janet, hello from Ft Worth.
They went tits-up long time ago. Early 00's iirc. The one in Vegas was on Flamingo. Burned down a few yrs ago.
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Northwestern University's student union pool room has maybe 15 tables (don't remember sizes) - not particularly impressive, but I was impressed that they let me teach students there once a week - maybe 20 years ago or so (maybe because I did it for free). Had probably 10-15 regular students.
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Pinky's.... Mark Estes/Colorado Springs was an employee/ bartender at Pinkys first location in Colorado Springs and in the late yrs/last one open he went to NV/Vegas, now he and his boy Shane are in vegas selling billiard equipment under his name.