I just watched a Women's event from NY on Youtube last night that was played on GC1's. They were kept in tip top shape, simonis, etc. Rails were not bouncy, played great.
pool has changed
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To really do that as far as the pro events, I think they will have to get 9-foot tables into pool rooms. Do you see that happening?
no bob. but i said that is what i would like to see. but they did it in the past. and if they got prices down and players wanting them it could come around and at least be competitive with diamonds.
they used to put in tables in new rooms for little down and take payments for some. and of course you got mosconi with every new room to do an exhibition. they also came and helped set up the business and taught or gave advice on running it. diamonds as far as i know put in tables and leave.
and the days of brunswick with lots of advertising to the masses got many new players and rec. players in every pool room. and now its mostly league players or regulars if you have a cheap monthly rate.
few monopolies last forever. and rightly so. brunswick had one and lost it for lack of caring.
they used to put in tables in new rooms for little down and take payments for some. and of course you got mosconi with every new room to do an exhibition. they also came and helped set up the business and taught or gave advice on running it. diamonds as far as i know put in tables and leave.
and the days of brunswick with lots of advertising to the masses got many new players and rec. players in every pool room. and now its mostly league players or regulars if you have a cheap monthly rate.
few monopolies last forever. and rightly so. brunswick had one and lost it for lack of caring.
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I bought an old Brunswick room like you describe. The guy was the original owner and he had everything that they gave him when he started. All kinds of booklets and instruction manuals for running the business.
And in those days every year you would have Mosconi, Balsis, Caras come around and do exhibitions no cost to the room owner. Brunswick made a big effort to help these rooms be successful.
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People love to watch westerns. The old west actually lasted a little more than from the end of the civil war to the turn of the century. And came the automobile in a few more years people would be flying in planes.
I see a little bit of a parallel in the pool world to the Old West. While pool had been around for many years I think that the availability of the automobile it put pool players on wheels and a new era was born.
I think this era may have existed from around the 1920s to maybe the 1980s. Within that era and time frame existed a host of characters. Famous, infamous and many little known except in the subculture of pool.
It's easy to romanticize the past as with the Old West and in my case pool. It really was a different time in pool though from today and I feel glad to have had a chance to at least glimpse a small piece of it.
I see a little bit of a parallel in the pool world to the Old West. While pool had been around for many years I think that the availability of the automobile it put pool players on wheels and a new era was born.
I think this era may have existed from around the 1920s to maybe the 1980s. Within that era and time frame existed a host of characters. Famous, infamous and many little known except in the subculture of pool.
It's easy to romanticize the past as with the Old West and in my case pool. It really was a different time in pool though from today and I feel glad to have had a chance to at least glimpse a small piece of it.
One things for sure, the old school crew were way better at matching up for the money.
If you know who brings the big crash, then pool has a chance to get it's feet back in. Like the 20s again.