Lil Al Romero

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ca sn8ke

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Looking for lil Al Romero? I understand he moved back to LA from Sacramento. I have one of his first cue with a very unique joint that needs some work. Anyone know where I might find him?
 
For those of you in the Los Angeles area Little Al has been playing at Gardena Bowl. Message me if you need his number.
 
I remember watching him minding his own business shooting the balls on those buckets- jawing some - so who's perfect right? It wasn't till decades later I realized he was deliberately jawing those. :eek:
 
ca sn8ke said:
Looking for lil Al Romero? I understand he moved back to LA from Sacramento. I have one of his first cue with a very unique joint that needs some work. Anyone know where I might find him?
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Give him some time. He still needs to move his equipment and set up shop.
 
T411 said:
Lots of action at Gardena Bowl back in the day. I used to watch Al match up there when I was a child too young to know or understand the level of play that I was watching. It’s a good thing they had pinball machines.
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My hometown bowling alley was like that too, back in the early to mid 90's. SIU Bowling and Billiards. Back then, they allowed smoking. The place was filled with smoke, and lots of very strong players. The ACUI National College Championships was held there too, back in the mid 90's. It was so awesome.
 
vintagecollectibles831 said:
My hometown bowling alley was like that too, back in the early to mid 90's. SIU Bowling and Billiards. Back then, they allowed smoking. The place was filled with smoke, and lots of very strong players. The ACUI National College Championships was held there too, back in the mid 90's. It was so awesome.
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Gardena Bowl is definitely a throwback and has survived the test of time when many bowling alleys and pool hall have closed across the country… and they’ve done it with both bowling and pool. Many universities around the country in years gone by had nice pool/billiards rooms with nice equipment. You don’t see that as much anymore and when you do the equipment is trash.
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T411 said:
Gardena Bowl is definitely a throwback and has survived the test of time when many bowling alleys and pool hall have closed across the country… and they’ve done it with both bowling and pool. Many universities around the country in years gone by had nice pool/billiards rooms with nice equipment. You don’t see that as much anymore and when you do the equipment is trash.View attachment 819692
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That is so cool.

The longtime manager of SIU Bowling and Billiards made a really stupid decision to replace all of the great vintage Brunswick Gold Crown tables with brand new Olhausen tables, and they were horrible, in my opinion. And, then the pool hall was mostly dead after that. All of the interest in Pool had gone away by the 2000's, and the place mostly just sat empty, with all the kids only wanting to bowl.

They had a nice 10 Foot Gold Crown Snooker table, with Snooker pockets too, but nobody ever played on it.

I really miss that place, during the 90's.
 
One of the nicer college billiard/bowling rooms was on the campus of NIU in Dekalb. I haven’t been there in years but they used to have Gold Crowns too.
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