Our Red's Tournaments gallery is now open for viewing

[BillPorter]

Our gallery of photographs taken at the Red’s Tournaments of 1984 & 1984 is now open for viewing. If you were there, we hope these images will bring back memories. If you weren’t there, you can get a sense of what the tournament was like and the players who participated. We make no claim to photographic excellence, but are simply trying to preserve a bit of pool history and present images that you may enjoy viewing.

We have not identified all the people in these shots and ask for your help in completing the gallery. Please use the “comments” option to leave a comment about a photograph. You might be able to identify someone or you might just want to leave a witty or profound comment.

Our 1980 Las Vegas 9-Ball Open gallery is also open at this time. We have added about thirty images to this gallery from slides sent to me recently by Mike Haines. We are still tweaking this gallery, so it might not look exactly the same if you visit it over a few days of time.

The printing option is turned on for all galleries. Some images files are too small to allow for good prints, so let us know if you want a print of a particular image.

The link to the galleries is: http://billporter.smugmug.com/

 

[sixpack]

Our gallery of photographs taken at the Red’s Tournaments of 1984 & 1984 is now open for viewing. If you were there, we hope these images will bring back memories. If you weren’t there, you can get a sense of what the tournament was like and the players who participated. We make no claim to photographic excellence, but are simply trying to preserve a bit of pool history and present images that you may enjoy viewing.

We have not identified all the people in these shots and ask for your help in completing the gallery. Please use the “comments” option to leave a comment about a photograph. You might be able to identify someone or you might just want to leave a witty or profound comment.

Our 1980 Las Vegas 9-Ball Open gallery is also open at this time. We have added about thirty images to this gallery from slides sent to me recently by Mike Haines. We are still tweaking this gallery, so it might not look exactly the same if you visit it over a few days of time.

The printing option is turned on for all galleries. Some images files are too small to allow for good prints, so let us know if you want a print of a particular image.

The link to the galleries is: http://billporter.smugmug.com/

Hi Bill,

Great pictures. Thanks for posting them!

In the Rocky Mountain 9-ball folder, the peak you thought might be Pike's Peak is actually the Spanish Peaks in southern Colorado I believe. You probably took the picture from I-25 highway on your way there or coming back.

http://mouser.org/gallery/spanishpeaks/IMG_1549

Cheers,
RC

 

[BillPorter]

Pike's Peak it's not....

Hi Bill,

In the Rocky Mountain 9-ball folder, the peak you thought might be Pike's Peak is actually the Spanish Peaks in southern Colorado I believe. You probably took the picture from I-25 highway on your way there or coming back.

http://mouser.org/gallery/spanishpeaks/IMG_1549

Cheers,
RC

I just changed the caption for this shot. Thanks for the information. When I looked more closely, it really doesn't look like Pike's Peak because I don't recall another peak that close to Pike's. You must have spent some time in Colorado.

 

[sixpack]

I just changed the caption for this shot. Thanks for the information. When I looked more closely, it really doesn't look like Pike's Peak because I don't recall another peak that close to Pike's. You must have spent some time in Colorado.

Lived there most of my life and spent countless hours and weeks outdoors hiking and photographing the Colorado landscape.

This is one of my faves, a picture of the Sand Dunes catching a snowstorm. Looks better at the 3' X 6' poster size.

Cheers,
RC

 

[macguy]

Our gallery of photographs taken at the Red’s Tournaments of 1984 & 1984 is now open for viewing. If you were there, we hope these images will bring back memories. If you weren’t there, you can get a sense of what the tournament was like and the players who participated. We make no claim to photographic excellence, but are simply trying to preserve a bit of pool history and present images that you may enjoy viewing.

We have not identified all the people in these shots and ask for your help in completing the gallery. Please use the “comments” option to leave a comment about a photograph. You might be able to identify someone or you might just want to leave a witty or profound comment.

Our 1980 Las Vegas 9-Ball Open gallery is also open at this time. We have added about thirty images to this gallery from slides sent to me recently by Mike Haines. We are still tweaking this gallery, so it might not look exactly the same if you visit it over a few days of time.

The printing option is turned on for all galleries. Some images files are too small to allow for good prints, so let us know if you want a print of a particular image.

The link to the galleries is: http://billporter.smugmug.com/

Those are great, thanks. I found myself in a picture. Just to add a little to the information. In the picture of Mike Massey where you say he killed a spectator, what the shot is, is the shot he did in the movie The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia. It is a variation of the Miz shot from the Miller commercial.

In the commercial as the cue ball goes around the table Miz at the last second picks up the bottle as the cue ball makes the last ball hanging in the corner. When Mike did the shot in the movie, a drunk falls on the table and Mike picks him up with one hand just as the cue ball comes around and passes under him. I guess you can call it . "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" shot. If you look on imdb.com Mike got a screen credit as pool player.

 

[BillPorter]

OK, which picture and which one are you?

Those are great, thanks. I found myself in a picture. Just to add a little to the information. In the picture of Mike Massey where you say he killed a spectator, what the shot is, is the shot he did in the movie The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia. It is a variation of the Miz shot from the Miller commercial.

In the commercial as the cue ball goes around the table Miz at the last second picks up the bottle as the cue ball makes the last ball hanging in the corner. When Mike did the shot in the movie, a drunk falls on the table and Mike picks him up with one hand just as the cue ball comes around and passes under him. I guess you can call it . "The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" shot. If you look on imdb.com Mike got a screen credit as pool player.

You should have told us which picture you are in.

As for the Massey shot, I was just trying to be cute, but thanks for the excellent injection of information! BTW, a major motive for our putting these images into galleries is for people, like you, who were actually in attendance at the events. I wasn't there myself, but the Red's tournaments were clearly some of the most memorable events over the past 25 years.

 

[BillPorter]

Just a bump

Just a bump for early morning people. BTW, thanks to all who left comments and helped to identify some of the people in the photographs.