RE: Steve Knight RIP(eulogy)
I just registered and realize this is over three years old, but I have to say I believe I knew Steve rather well, back in the mid to late seventies.
I want to wish his friends and family my condolenses.
I managed Old Pueblo Billiards for Weldon Irby/Erby? in Tucson, Arizona. I believe it was on the corner of Speedway and Alvernon.
They had a dozen regulation Brunswick pool tables, 1 three cushion billiard table, two 5x10 snooker tables, one 6x12 snooker/golf table, seven pinball machines, four tornado foosball tables, six booths for backgammon, chess and other forms on gambling/entertainment, beer and snacks. A gamers dream job, as long as money was no object.
I bought a used Joss cue stick, black 21 oz, from him, and got my game on, by playing him frequently. He knew I was young and poor and although he preferred to gamble he would play for a dollar or two. I learned how to keep my cue/cue tip in shape and how to jump balls.
He liked my game, and I challenged him some, and I learned a ton.
He used to really lower himself unlike any player I can remember when he was shooting. His eyes were usually bulging/and bloodshot for some strange reason back then
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He was a relentless and patient player. I remember him and Alabama Sam would go at it. I remember him wearing button down shirts and slacks, like he just got done at a restaurant. He did have a sense of humor, I am sure I provided some of that back then.
He would always play on the first or second table from the booth/bar area looking for some action.
Back then he was an athletic looking person with shorter black wavy/curly hair. I am 6'0" and I think he was my height or a little shorter.
I could watch him play against others for hours.
If this isn't him, I am sorry, but I believe it is. Of course I am now 56 and in 1979 I was 25 years old, so some of the last names have eluded me.
I know he was around when Earl Strickland was an 18 year old making his trek through Arizona and I remember Weldon saying that the SoCal phenom is coming for some action. I want to say he took everyones cash, though I don't remember Steve playing him. My relationship with him and my 20 years in Tucson ended when I met a girl from Wisconsin and somehow she got pregnant, and couldn't handle the heat, so we moved away and wife/kids = no game.
Thanks for reading, anybody familiar with Old Pueblo Billiards/Tucson in the late seventies, I have a ton of questions and answers!!!
ANDY
I just registered and realize this is over three years old, but I have to say I believe I knew Steve rather well, back in the mid to late seventies.
I want to wish his friends and family my condolenses.
I managed Old Pueblo Billiards for Weldon Irby/Erby? in Tucson, Arizona. I believe it was on the corner of Speedway and Alvernon.
They had a dozen regulation Brunswick pool tables, 1 three cushion billiard table, two 5x10 snooker tables, one 6x12 snooker/golf table, seven pinball machines, four tornado foosball tables, six booths for backgammon, chess and other forms on gambling/entertainment, beer and snacks. A gamers dream job, as long as money was no object.
I bought a used Joss cue stick, black 21 oz, from him, and got my game on, by playing him frequently. He knew I was young and poor and although he preferred to gamble he would play for a dollar or two. I learned how to keep my cue/cue tip in shape and how to jump balls.
He liked my game, and I challenged him some, and I learned a ton.
He used to really lower himself unlike any player I can remember when he was shooting. His eyes were usually bulging/and bloodshot for some strange reason back then
...He was a relentless and patient player. I remember him and Alabama Sam would go at it. I remember him wearing button down shirts and slacks, like he just got done at a restaurant. He did have a sense of humor, I am sure I provided some of that back then.
He would always play on the first or second table from the booth/bar area looking for some action.
Back then he was an athletic looking person with shorter black wavy/curly hair. I am 6'0" and I think he was my height or a little shorter.
I could watch him play against others for hours.
If this isn't him, I am sorry, but I believe it is. Of course I am now 56 and in 1979 I was 25 years old, so some of the last names have eluded me.
I know he was around when Earl Strickland was an 18 year old making his trek through Arizona and I remember Weldon saying that the SoCal phenom is coming for some action. I want to say he took everyones cash, though I don't remember Steve playing him. My relationship with him and my 20 years in Tucson ended when I met a girl from Wisconsin and somehow she got pregnant, and couldn't handle the heat, so we moved away and wife/kids = no game.
Thanks for reading, anybody familiar with Old Pueblo Billiards/Tucson in the late seventies, I have a ton of questions and answers!!!
ANDY