Mosconi's High School?
- Thread starter Mr. Bond
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Barrett Jr. HS and South Philadelphia High.
Lou Figueroa
didn't have
a slip stroke
back then either :-o
GoldenFlash
Banned
Did he graduate from High School?
They nose it 'cause they is smart as whips. :thumbup:
He grew up in Philadelphia in South Philly. Huge Italian Catholic neighborhood. Try the Catholic parishes of the time. I know this is broad but I highly doubt he went to public school but if he did South Philadelphia High School is probably where he attended.
Sorry, just read the other posts.
Ask and ye shall receive Mr. Bond.
Im just guessing.
May is a month when many students graduate and it is usually towards the end of that month. 526
"I went to the local public school, then to Barrett Junior High School and South Philadelphia High. About halfway through high school my father took me out and enrolled me in Banks Business College. I had no interest in business and I certainly didn't want to go to a specialized school, but my father had his own ideas. His sister's husband was in the shoe-binding business, and my father was hoping to get me some training so that I could join him in the business. But it didn't work out that way. I completed enough courses to receive my high school diploma, but about halfway through I had to leave and go to work."
Willie's Game, by Willie Mosconi & Stanley Cohen, p. 18.
Willie's Game, by Willie Mosconi & Stanley Cohen, p. 18.
thats a fancy way of saying "I didnt finish high school"
(common in working families in those days and is no reflection of his intelligence)
That's ok, he ended up with a Ph.D. (Pool Hall Degree)
I have a large pool library sitting right behind me. (I have one of Mosconi's cue balls sitting there on a shelf too.) So when something like this comes up, I just swivel around and pick the appropriate piece of literature.
Lou Figueroa