Least expensive price per hour you can remember
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not as cheap or long ago as some of the geezers here (), but:
I remember $1.50/$2.50 an hour back in the early/mid 90's.
I mainly played bar boxes back then and most bars had .25 cent/game tables, with 3 or 4 free pool nights a week.
Doesn't seem like that long ago now, oddly. I remember me and some friends walking into a new (at the time) pool hall that had $5/hour tables around 1994/95 and we laughed and turned around and walked out.
Edit: Looking at some of the prices from the 70's posted here, i think pool hourly rates really haven't gotten that bad compared to some other things. For instance, just 20 or so years ago (1992-ish) i was getting leaded (!) gas for .79 or .89 cents a gallon. $5 would be enough to get you and some friends out and about...even with the crappy-mileage car i drove then. Now? $5 worth of gas might get me to the grocery store and back. Maybe.
goldeagle2134
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$.75 an hour in Maryland ..... mid 60s.
The old Sportsman poolhall in downtown Roanoke. 10 cents a rack in the late 60s. Women were not allowed. Elephant legged pool tables with spittoons everywhere. Like all good things coming to an end, the Sportsman closed. I have an article written by Mike Ives about the Sportsman closing I will have to post here sometime.
At Bunnell's Recreation (Detroit Lakes, MN) in the 1960's it was 60 cents per hour to play. Most of us played by the rack. Tap your cue on the floor and Ole would come over, collect his money and rack the balls. A single rack of 8 ball or rotation was 10 cents...snooker 15 cents. We played alot of snooker for penny a point.
-Dennis
-Dennis
FREE with Boy's Club of America Membership in Miami, FL. Think it was 15 Buck a year to belong to the Boy's Club.
Ah the memories
I remember those numbers as well.
Bowling in the early '50s was 25 cents a game (10 cents went to the pinboy - which I was briefly).
At "Babe's" pool hall in La Crosse, WI, I could sneak in and play for 25 cents an hour during the afternoons in 1955.
A couple years later, it was 10 cents a game at "Sheldon's Cigar Store", with "Romey" racking the balls and collecting before each game. When Wisconsin instituted their sales tax, Art Sheldon began adding a penny to everything - 11 cents for a game of 8-ball, 16 cents for rotation, 16 cents for an 8-ounce bottle of Heileman's or Hamm's and 26 cents for the 12-ouncer. It drove everyone nuts, but we still played on the 1920s era Brunswick tables.
By the way, the best player in La X back then was the legendary Jack Huffman...
I remember those numbers as well.
Bowling in the early '50s was 25 cents a game (10 cents went to the pinboy - which I was briefly).
At "Babe's" pool hall in La Crosse, WI, I could sneak in and play for 25 cents an hour during the afternoons in 1955.
A couple years later, it was 10 cents a game at "Sheldon's Cigar Store", with "Romey" racking the balls and collecting before each game. When Wisconsin instituted their sales tax, Art Sheldon began adding a penny to everything - 11 cents for a game of 8-ball, 16 cents for rotation, 16 cents for an 8-ounce bottle of Heileman's or Hamm's and 26 cents for the 12-ouncer. It drove everyone nuts, but we still played on the 1920s era Brunswick tables.
By the way, the best player in La X back then was the legendary Jack Huffman...
The downtown pool room in Oklahoma City charged 5 cents a rack
for pool and 10 cents a rack for snooker. In the 50's the main pool games
seemed to be straight pool or rotation. And six red ball snooker was very popular, also.
for pool and 10 cents a rack for snooker. In the 50's the main pool games
seemed to be straight pool or rotation. And six red ball snooker was very popular, also.
My first year at UMass Amherst (1988), it was to the best of my recollection 60 cents per hour for students. I think it went up to a dollar an hour the next year.
As late as 1994, I played in a pool hall in Tennessee that had a house racker at 25 or 50 cents an 8-ball rack.
Freddie <~~~ 25 cents a rack is more expensive
As late as 1994, I played in a pool hall in Tennessee that had a house racker at 25 or 50 cents an 8-ball rack.
Freddie <~~~ 25 cents a rack is more expensive
When I first started playing there was no charge per minute.
Nine ball was 5 cents a game
Eight ball was a dime a game
Snooker was 15 cents
The houseman racked the balls, then took your money.
After a few years, it then went to a penny a minute and stayed there for a very long time.
Currently my hall charges about $4.50 an hour for the 9 footers and $3.50 if you play in the league as a league discount.
Nine ball was 5 cents a game
Eight ball was a dime a game
Snooker was 15 cents
The houseman racked the balls, then took your money.
After a few years, it then went to a penny a minute and stayed there for a very long time.
Currently my hall charges about $4.50 an hour for the 9 footers and $3.50 if you play in the league as a league discount.
I had a car wreck and was unable to work for several months when i was young. But I would limp into the pool room and the owner let me play for free since i was busted in more ways than one. She was a nice lady.
Our room charged 75 cents and hour after we took it over I think. I was young but have pictures of my dad by a rate sign. It might have been 60 cents when we first bought it.