No Gambling Sign

[DrCue'sProtege]

Ok, so, one of my hobbies is that I like to watch old TV shows from my youth. One of the old TV shows that I like to watch late at night is Barnaby Jones. Remember Buddy Ebsen played the older, milk drinking private investigator in Los Angeles.

I was watching an episode last night and Barnaby was in a pool hall talking with a guy playing at a table. In the background, on the wall, was a sign that said:

NO GAMBLING

I thought that was pretty odd for Los Angeles in the 1970s. Was that common place back in the day? Or just something they put up for the show?

r/DCP

 

[sjm]

Yes. Back then, you often saw "no gambling" and "no masse shots" signs. I don't think either was strictly enforced by many room owners.

 

[Jedco]

In some places that sign is required by law. There's an old joke that says the larger the NO GAMBLING sign, the more gambling is going on in that pool room.

 

[Banger]

In the movie "Rocky", there is a sign in the locker room at Mickey's Gym that says "No kissing".

 

[Jimmy_Betmore]

I seem to recall a sign at The Derby (Executive West days) that said, "No No Gambling."

 

[spktur]

I had a buddy with a poolroom who had a sign on the wall that said 'No Gambling On Credit'

 

[HawaiianEye]

Yes. Back then, you often saw "no gambling" and "no masse shots" signs. I don't think either was strictly enforced by many room owners.

Strictly for show.

I played pool a couple of times with John Waihe'e, the Governor of Hawaii, in Hawaiian Brian's back in the early 90s.

He used to stop in around lunch time and he would play for small money with the girl who ran the pro shop.

He was not very good but he liked pool and cues. He bought an old Balabushka out of the Pro Shop for $8,000.

There were signs everywhere about "No Smoking", but he would light up and smoke the whole time he was playing.

 

[Paul_#_]

NO GAMBLING PERMITTED in the Ames pool hall in The Hustler:

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[cubswin]

Don't remember being in a pool room in the 80's and early 90's that didn't have that sign.

 

[couldnthinkof01]

I remember many rooms having the:
No gambling
No masse'
No swearing

 

[HawaiianEye]

I remember many rooms having the:
No gambling
No masse'
No swearing

We also had the "No Jumping" and "No sitting on tables" and the owner would throw you out if he had to warn you more than once.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Yes. Back then, you often saw "no gambling" and "no masse shots" signs. I don't think either was strictly enforced by many room owners.

The signs in the campus rec room said

No Gambling
Use the Ashtrays
No Masse Shots

We thought it was pretty funny to say, "Use the ashtrays", whenever someone started to shoot a masse shot. It was understood that all the regulars were gambling. Mr. Stone did enforce the masse shot ban, if he was around.

 

[straightline]

Mechanics kept stacks in the truck.

 

[mikemosconi]

They worried about gambling when 90% of the pool population were slowing killing themselves and everyone around them with the cigarettes.
The no gambling signs - pool’s attempt to keep cops out and convey some sense of a decent place to visit as far as general and governing society was concerned.

 

[Zerksies]

They had that sign in the poolroom that i worked in. I thought it was funny the owner was constantly gambling. BUt to think of it maybe it was a law or something the town required.

 

[14oneman]

Ok, so, one of my hobbies is that I like to watch old TV shows from my youth. One of the old TV shows that I like to watch late at night is Barnaby Jones. Remember Buddy Ebsen played the older, milk drinking private investigator in Los Angeles.

I was watching an episode last night and Barnaby was in a pool hall talking with a guy playing at a table. In the background, on the wall, was a sign that said:

NO GAMBLING

I thought that was pretty odd for Los Angeles in the 1970s. Was that common place back in the day? Or just something they put up for the show?

r/DCP

Very common in most pool rooms of that era...

 

[Icon of Sin]

Ok, so, one of my hobbies is that I like to watch old TV shows from my youth. One of the old TV shows that I like to watch late at night is Barnaby Jones. Remember Buddy Ebsen played the older, milk drinking private investigator in Los Angeles.

I was watching an episode last night and Barnaby was in a pool hall talking with a guy playing at a table. In the background, on the wall, was a sign that said:

NO GAMBLING

I thought that was pretty odd for Los Angeles in the 1970s. Was that common place back in the day? Or just something they put up for the show?

r/DCP

They posted them all around the pit at the expo... where people were constantly gambling.

I think they do it so when the gaming commission stops by they can say they arent liable for it.

 

[jeephawk]

"Gambling is illegal at Brushwood sir, . . . . "

 

[fastone371]

They worried about gambling when 90% of the pool population were slowing killing themselves and everyone around them with the cigarettes.
The no gambling signs - pool’s attempt to keep cops out and convey some sense of a decent place to visit as far as general and governing society was concerned.

Do you really think cigs were that big of a problem when everything you touched back then was loaded with Asbestos? Even in the current no smoking age pool players are still killing themselves with alcohol, its never going to end.

 

[garczar]

I wish rooms ALL had a BIG: NO CELLPHONES sign. I've walked off from a few players when they bust out the phone. Rude as fk imo.