Mosconi on Pawn Stars

It has been posted a couple of times before, but relative to TV Pawn Shop show Cajun Pawnstars, a sadly missed Deramus in the series is the another of Jimmie's sons, Chad, who passed away on Oct. 22, 2006 in a plane crash carrying Mr. Jimmie, Ms. Peggy, Jenny (Chad's wife at the time) and a private pilot. Chad was the only fatality in the crash. He was a cue collector and a good player with a HUGEEEE personality. Many can attest to the fact that he would have made the show. A Huebler he was given after beating Fast Eddie in a travelling exhibition at the age of 12 was highlighted in somewhat of a trailer at the end of one of the episodes. There is somewhat of a memorial shrine to Chad in the store that includes quite a bit of pool memorabilia. Mr. Jimmie is also a business acquaintence of Bob Meucci, and Chad was friends with Bill Schick. I still have two cues that were given to my by Chad, one just for taking time out of my schedule and driving about 1.5hours to meet him to do a trade. That was the first time we ever met.
 
cuenut said:
It has been posted a couple of times before, but relative to TV Pawn Shop show Cajun Pawnstars, a sadly missed Deramus in the series is the another of Jimmie's sons, Chad, who passed away on Oct. 22, 2006 in a plane crash carrying Mr. Jimmie, Ms. Peggy, Jenny (Chad's wife at the time) and a private pilot. Chad was the only fatality in the crash. He was a cue collector and a good player with a HUGEEEE personality. Many can attest to the fact that he would have made the show. A Huebler he was given after beating Fast Eddie in a travelling exhibition at the age of 12 was highlighted in somewhat of a trailer at the end of one of the episodes. There is somewhat of a memorial shrine to Chad in the store that includes quite a bit of pool memorabilia. Mr. Jimmie is also a business acquaintence of Bob Meucci, and Chad was friends with Bill Schick. I still have two cues that were given to my by Chad, one just for taking time out of my schedule and driving about 1.5hours to meet him to do a trade. That was the first time we ever met.
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That's a sad story. I think it would be great if high end cues were featured on some of these shows. How cool would it be if the Pickers found an old Bushka in someone's closet? Or someone tried to sell a cue on those deal shows?

I guess it would kind of spell the end of pawn shop deals though if it became widely known that cues have value to pawn shops. I guess many of them have smartened up now but still I have heard of some amazing pawn shop deals.
 
It's a fun show but I'm always amazed at what collectors will pay at those shops for items they can get for far cheaper at eBay--likewise what people pay at Christie's and Sotheby's for the same thing. Of course, people want a good provenance for an item, but...
 
These shows are scripted.

On the most recent episode of "Sons of Guns" (the mythbusters episode), my boss is the gentleman who brought in the old "Bess" Gun (sp.). He had contacted SoG months in advance of filming and then the actual episode aired about 6 months later.

Anyways, I laughed when they showed my boss casually coming off the street with the gun in a fancy case. He had no case. I personally shipped the gun myself. There is no case.

My boss told me that the whole scene was scripted. And I know by the many emails that went back and forth that the gun was thoroughly researched.

I still love reality shows like Pawn Stars.
 
Knowing that they are so heavily scripted takes a bit of the fun out for me but in the end it's still interesting to learn little tidbits of history in an interesting setting.
 
I saw that episode too, and the Huebler sold to the pawn shop is no big deal. Eddie Parker was a very nice man, but not Fast Eddie (there was no Fast Eddie, with the possible exception of Ronnie Allen). The cue is definitely not rare, but the pawn shop owner made it out to be something of extreme value that he would never sell.

I also saw the episode of Pawn Stars with the Mosconi stuff, and I thought the $400+ Rick paid was WAY overpriced. The cuecase is junk, the cue is junk, the book is not worth much (I have two of them that Willie signed for me), and there are lots of signed pics of Mosconi. The signed 9ball might be worth the most...although, as everybody knows, Mosconi was the straight pool champion, not the 9ball champion. Anybody can have a window box made. jmo

Scott Lee
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cuenut said:
It has been posted a couple of times before, but relative to TV Pawn Shop show Cajun Pawnstars, a sadly missed Deramus in the series is the another of Jimmie's sons, Chad, who passed away on Oct. 22, 2006 in a plane crash carrying Mr. Jimmie, Ms. Peggy, Jenny (Chad's wife at the time) and a private pilot. Chad was the only fatality in the crash. He was a cue collector and a good player with a HUGEEEE personality. Many can attest to the fact that he would have made the show. A Huebler he was given after beating Fast Eddie in a travelling exhibition at the age of 12 was highlighted in somewhat of a trailer at the end of one of the episodes. There is somewhat of a memorial shrine to Chad in the store that includes quite a bit of pool memorabilia. Mr. Jimmie is also a business acquaintence of Bob Meucci, and Chad was friends with Bill Schick. I still have two cues that were given to my by Chad, one just for taking time out of my schedule and driving about 1.5hours to meet him to do a trade. That was the first time we ever met.
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I think it would be interesting to see what cues they actually have for sale there,considering that South West is also in Vegas,and surely someone has tried to or actually sold one,maybe even a few.

Then add to that the boatload of league players that wind up in a bind and go there,and who knows? Tommy D.
 
Big Hoss that seems to know a little about everything that comes in.

Come on, it looks like he is reading from a teleprompter and he sounds like he
has not much more than a gr 8 education. And here he is spouting off world history facts and figures.

He is probably lucky if he can start his Harley and drive it in a straight line and Peeing in the toilette instead of hitting the floor.

Still, I like the show.
 
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I was in Vegas in August 2010 and visited the pawn shop. While there, I inquired about any pool cues for sale and was told that they did not buy them because they did not know enough about them and that there were too many "fakes" floating around. Maybe times have changed.
 
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