Pools golden years

[chefjeff]

cant edit,

my point was i brought back a game in pool that they didnt know, and it was fun. thats the point for league players is fun. they liked it. they couldnt make a spot shot tho, lol they can BNR a rack or 2 . it just showed me that the 20 year old guys don't know all the aspects of making pool fun, one guy heard of pea pool, i wish i had a bottle-that would have been great.

I'm going to play that game again, not for the $5.25 I won, i was up about $12 but my back got tired the last 30 minutes, $12 is 48 barrels in a 25 cent game. not to bad:wink:

i just wanted to have fun in a game, they were cool and listened to my plan and they saw a pool game new to them that was common 30 years ago.


Perhaps the Golden Era can have a revival period.

I was going to say that NOW is the golden years. Your experience with those punksters demonstrated that.

The net and the changes it is bringing will make these years golden and then we'll be nostalgic about the 00's someday. "Back in my day, we didn't have facebook or twitter, we had to communicate by az forum!...and we liked it!"

After all, now is the time. Btw, I'm 60 this year.

Jeff Livingston

 

[CJ Wiley]

Glad to hear from you Bill, you saw many of the same players I did back in "the day"

Welcome back to the pool room eh? The scenario is similar no matter where ya go. A few yrs back I decided to play again and started working out with a very good player cheap 5 hrs or so once week. It was going good and I was losing not too badly, about 2-3 games down per hour. About the second month of play it was 1-2 games per hour then by the third mth I was winning slightly. Finally started playing better after about three mths and beat this guy out of 26 games in less than four hours and he didn't show up or call or say anything after that, we just never played again, or ever will play again. I've done this three mth scenario about 4 times in the past twelve years with the exact same results. They won't even ask for weight, they just won't play, their ego seems to be in play more than other aspects of play. I know people are more broke nowadays, especially pool players, but the desire to get better thru matching up seems to be gone. The win and bragging about it seems to be more on topic these days.

Hey there, Bill, we're from the same era, I didn't know this was your "AZname" .... I probably have met nearly everyone on here at one time or another, but I've not tried to figure out who people are unless they actually sign their names. :wink:

Yeah, I was out of the game entirely between 99 and 2008 and then decided to play in the US OPEN. I had a chance to actually win it, but had a bad day on the 5th, after beating Earl Stickland 11/3 the night before. The pace of those tournaments is tough for me, there's SO MUCH dead time.

Brandon Shuff actually played me at the pool room after the tournament which was cool, many people say they'll play, but few actually do. The only ones that will play, like Shane want to freeze up big sets, although I played him for $500 a game in Louisville a couple of years ago. He got 8 games up, I got even and he quit....so much for any more action there :wink:, that game knocked me the entire next year and I didn't even win...brutal.

Glad to hear from you, Bill, we saw many of the same players back in the late 80s and early 90s....the action was intense during those times, that's for sure.

Best Regards,

CJ

 

[tomfmcs]

circa 1970s What is gone now.

I used to go down to the pool hall in the mid 60's and put my name on the list for a 9 footer the game was straight pool/14-1. No one seems to play that any more. 8 ball in the bars, better know the local rules.

Got drafted in 1970 and spent 22yrs in the US Army. Vietnam to desert storm.
Back in the day every company/battalion had a day room with a pool table in it. Also each installation had a recreation center that had lots of pool tables in them in relation to floor space. I have shot a lot of pool in my down time, in the mid 70's in Germany, going to the rec center was all me and my family could afford. Lots's of pool. Also I have shot pool all over the world where ever I could find a game. I did not shoot pool in Vietnam(I shot other things).
As I live in Colorado Springs,Co. I go to Ft Carson and the Air Force base's alot. They have gotten rid of all the rec centers and day rooms are a thing of the past. Modern soldiers do not spend time shootin pool any more now days it is pc and xbox gaming.
Man is the game of pool changing and the great ones have faded a way. I did notice no one said any thing about Jackie Gleason a real good shot.
Sorry to rattle on.