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Regional Cues
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I'll have it by this summer.
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Grand-Olive Stories
For watchez' request, you can search "Grand-Olive" on this site and pick up a few good stories about the place, including mine as follows:
The place below Grand - Olive Billiards was called Garavelli's. The Garavelli family was a well-known St. Louis restaurant family and even today there is a Garavelli's restaurant in St. Louis. I played at Grand-Olive a bunch in the 60s and Grand-Olive had what I would call an errand boy named "Sixteen Zwibleman." Supposedly he got the name "Sixteen" because he was a Western Union messenger with badge number 16. He was the world's oldest errand boy -- probably in his 80s. Anyway, if you yelled "Sixteen" he would come to your table and among other things go down to Garavelli's and get you a sandwich or whatever else you wanted. Not sure if he was an employee of Grand-Olive or just hung around for tips.
One night my friend and I were eating at Garavelli's and he found a big copper staple in his hot roast beef sandwich (the kind wholesale butchers use to package up meat). We were thinking we were about to get a free meal out of this discovery and maybe more (free food for a year?? Etc.). My friend called the elderly and gruff waitress over and was about to give his indignant demand for recompense when the waitress snatched the staple out of his hand and disappeared. No free meal.
There was a good player there named "Rotten Mouth" Johnson. Once he was uprbraiding someone about something and said: "You don't know if a basketball is round, square or diagonal. You are a f***ing idiot."
Dear All: Please message your memories of Grand-Olive. Thanks.
For watchez' request, you can search "Grand-Olive" on this site and pick up a few good stories about the place, including mine as follows:
The place below Grand - Olive Billiards was called Garavelli's. The Garavelli family was a well-known St. Louis restaurant family and even today there is a Garavelli's restaurant in St. Louis. I played at Grand-Olive a bunch in the 60s and Grand-Olive had what I would call an errand boy named "Sixteen Zwibleman." Supposedly he got the name "Sixteen" because he was a Western Union messenger with badge number 16. He was the world's oldest errand boy -- probably in his 80s. Anyway, if you yelled "Sixteen" he would come to your table and among other things go down to Garavelli's and get you a sandwich or whatever else you wanted. Not sure if he was an employee of Grand-Olive or just hung around for tips.
One night my friend and I were eating at Garavelli's and he found a big copper staple in his hot roast beef sandwich (the kind wholesale butchers use to package up meat). We were thinking we were about to get a free meal out of this discovery and maybe more (free food for a year?? Etc.). My friend called the elderly and gruff waitress over and was about to give his indignant demand for recompense when the waitress snatched the staple out of his hand and disappeared. No free meal.
There was a good player there named "Rotten Mouth" Johnson. Once he was uprbraiding someone about something and said: "You don't know if a basketball is round, square or diagonal. You are a f***ing idiot."
Dear All: Please message your memories of Grand-Olive. Thanks.
I think the biggest difference is who makes a Hercek? Yep, just Hercek. Same with many other custom cue builders. Carolina cues were called "production" for basically doing the same thing as SW. Yet, one is production and the other is custom? That perplexes me
At least when you buy a Mercedes AMG engine, you know exactly who built your engine, he even signs it. :thumbup:
I got G.B. and G.S.
I never had any problem getting cues from either one them. I was just
a kid when I got my first Balabuska. Alf Taylor and bunch of other people
at the Cotton Bowling Palace had Paradise cues. Alf came in with a
Balabushka made from a titlist blank with a mop diamonds in butt sleeve
like 5 domino. I got the telephone number from Alf and called him and
told him I wanted a cue. Sent like a $ 20.00 deposit and a drawing.
It only took about 3 to 4 weeks, cost a little under $100. I got 5 or 6
cues from him and I wasn't anybody. Quite a few players in Dallas got
cues from him. The same with G.S, I got like 10 from him. Once 3 at a
time. I talked to Gus about once or twice a month and got to be kind
friends on the phone. I got some really cool cues from him, the ebony
cue with ivory boxes, ivory sleeve with ebony boxes was the coolest
one. I also got the last cue Balabushka mailed before he died, it is in
the Glen collection, not sure abut the Gus box cue deano would know.
The only reason I can think of that I never had any problem getting
cues from them was I started dealing with them pretty early in their
cue making years and they knew I was a cue sucker.
jack
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I never had any problem getting cues from either one them. I was just
a kid when I got my first Balabuska. Alf Taylor and bunch of other people
at the Cotton Bowling Palace had Paradise cues. Alf came in with a
Balabushka made from a titlist blank with a mop diamonds in butt sleeve
like 5 domino. I got the telephone number from Alf and called him and
told him I wanted a cue. Sent like a $ 20.00 deposit and a drawing.
It only took about 3 to 4 weeks, cost a little under $100. I got 5 or 6
cues from him and I wasn't anybody. Quite a few players in Dallas got
cues from him. The same with G.S, I got like 10 from him. Once 3 at a
time. I talked to Gus about once or twice a month and got to be kind
friends on the phone. I got some really cool cues from him, the ebony
cue with ivory boxes, ivory sleeve with ebony boxes was the coolest
one. I also got the last cue Balabushka mailed before he died, it is in
the Glen collection, not sure abut the Gus box cue deano would know.
The only reason I can think of that I never had any problem getting
cues from them was I started dealing with them pretty early in their
cue making years and they knew I was a cue sucker.
jack
Free SJD