Scotty Townsend.....

There are a few Pool Rooms around....you just have to leave Crestview......Stacade in Ft Walton...............Hidden Pockets in Milton..they have 9' Gold Crown 4's and a 9' Diamond, plus Bar boxes. I got a great story about Jimmy King goin off! Got really mad..........................and RUTHLESS!.......tell your brother to go up to Hidden Pockets...theres a kid there that will play a little.......ask for John Schimdt! LOL He plays a little!
 
They may have run in to each other before. Last time I was up there he dragged me over to a place around DeFuniak Springs that has a $5 entry that paid a few hundred to win. Scotty was there also. I don't like the bar boxes much, but I won it, my brother took second, some heavy set guy took third and Scotty got fourth. I guess it was fun for a night, but it took way too long with as many players as they had.

I'm just glad to see the FL Tour back and good $$ being added again. Tommy & Denise ask why I don't play the SE Tour and I tell them all the locations are way to far for the $$ involved. It would have been nice if he wouldn't have pulled about all the FL spots because of the adding 60% law here.

Hope to see you all at Capones :)
 
Het Ruthless............who is your brother. As for John he just won the Reno Open. He moved to Milton a few months ago and plays as the House Pro there, at Hidden Pockets. Do you know Doyle Brooks....or did you? I think he passed away. He use to own a Car Body Shop.........and ran a pool room in Crestview. Or a black guy named Barron Evans?
 
I really woudn't know them unless they played the Texas Express Tour (before it died), the old PBA, or the FL Tour. I haven't spent much time in NW FL. My brother's name is Mike, and he is in Mgt. of Lee Chrysler & Crestview Crysler (not sales).

I used to run with Tommy K. some when he still gambled and after he quit. We are still very good friends and keep in good contact. I ran with Javier "Franco" Padilla out of Houston for a while and several others. Managed Pool Rooms around Orlando, recovered/installed/moved thousands of tables all over the south.

I learned when I was young that even being a AA Player that $$ was scarce and that only a very few will ever make a good living doing it. Those are mostly in the supply, accessory, or room owner positions. So I own a construction company and make as much as winning a FL Tour event daily. But I am starting to show a little interest after quitting for some years.

It does stay in you're blood :)
 
Ruthless
I played with tommy k to. my name is JR. played out of rack & kue. and storkers. played with jc and obie and swat "john". and other guys. I played in jimmys some to. about five of us went up and down florida playing. oh and they just open a trick shots and Orlando Metro on old wintergarden rd. in metro-west. with about 30 tables. whats your name?
 
I remember when Tommy gambled.........Him and Scotty use to match up at Starcade years back...........And Tommy would match up with Johnny Archer there too. Use to see some great games back then. Races to 9 or 11 for 500 or 1000+
 
That new Trick Shots copied my upsidedown table I did when I built the one on University also :))
 
hemicudas said:
Anyone know what happened to Jimmy King? I talked to Scotty this weekend. He and Tyler from Monroe played scotch doubles at the Rack in Jackson, MS Sat.-Sun. Scotty said he didn't know where he is now. Any help? thx.
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He is out here in Houston(south), from what I hear he has a body shop and is painting cars.etc. The last time I saw him he was in Dothan in a tourney at Pockets, that is back when I was bartending, well he came into my bar with a few strippers and "asked me what I thought of them"? I straight up told him they were scank a$$ crooks! Obviously he didn't listen to my advice, seeing how he rented a limo and they went to Atlanta,,,, and what happened ??????? He got rooooooooolled. He came back into my bar the next night and told me what happened, my response to him was (to quote a line by Al Pacino in Scarface) "I tried to tell you, but you wouldnt listen....look at you now you stupid @#$%"

The moral of this story boys and girls??????????????

Stay away from scanky a$$ crooks!!!!!!!!
 
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The Great Painter and I moved to Ft. Walton Beach from Jackson, MS in 1975. I can't remember the name of the bar on 98 that the action was at but it was the one that Bill (Cash) Moore drank his Pina Coladas at. Jimmy comes in one night and couldn't match up with anyone after busting Jerry Dalton so he bets this guy he can unjoint his cue, put in the case, zip it up, carry it out to his car, unlock the door of his car, put the cue in the car and walk back in the bar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,all on his hands. The guy he bet actually believed him but said it would be worth losing $200 just to see it. Plus he figured Jimmy might lose his balance some where along the way.......He didn't.

Point being, Jimmy King was a hell of an athlete as well as a solid pool player..........$Bill
 
hemicudas said:
The Great Painter and I moved to Ft. Walton Beach from Jackson, MS in 1975. I can't remember the name of the bar on 98 that the action was at but it was the one that Bill (Cash) Moore drank his Pina Coladas at. Jimmy comes in one night and couldn't match up with anyone after busting Jerry Dalton so he bets this guy he can unjoint his cue, put in the case, zip it up, carry it out to his car, unlock the door of his car, put the cue in the car and walk back in the bar,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,all on his hands. The guy he bet actually believed him but said it would be worth losing $200 just to see it. Plus he figured Jimmy might lose his balance some where along the way.......He didn't.

Point being, Jimmy King was a hell of an athlete as well as a solid pool player..........$Bill
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So this is "Painter"?
 
noooooooo! Lmao......Last I heard about THE GREAT PAINTER he was in Biloxi dealin BlackJack. I saw Painter playing a real good player one pocket, Getting a huge spot. Painter was DRUNK, and I mean Drunk...........He got up to shoot....He looked at the stack. Might have been a ball gone....all the balls still in a wad at the center. Painter says there's a DEAD BALL right there!.......And POW! He busts the stack wide open, Looked like an 8 ball break. Not one ball goes close to his hole...........and he makes 3 balls in the other guys hole. Then he stumbles back to the bar and just sits there with a sad look on his face.......Raises his eyebrows and says WTF I thought the ball was dead.
 
No. I'm not the Painter but this was taken 2 weeks ago at his grand daughter's wedding. He doesn't look a day over 73 does he. $Bill
 
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Will do Chuck. I only stayed in Ft. Walton for about 3 months fishing 1/2s with Captain Dave and the New Florida Girl in the day time and scuffing at night. I use to give Painter the last 2. Which means I didn't play well either but I matched up much better than he did LOL. I couldn't fade any more of his action. It's like looking at the hot horse shoe, you put it down quick. He is still a good friend.

That's why he and Scotty got along so well. They were just alike except Scotty could play.
 
I met Painter and Scotty while I lived in Ft. Walton beach and was a frequenter of Starcade Billiards. Scotty is a superb player period. I remember during one 9 ball tournament, one of the bigger ones they have there (in 1999 I believe), Scotty played David Broxson and I believe Scotty and David had something on the side that David wouldn't make it past 4 games in a race to nine, or maybe five. Well David got the first break and put a 5 or 6 pack on Scotty before he could even get started. David ended up winning the set 9-1 or 9-2, and Scottie's facial expression was funny, and he just looked at everyone and said something to the effect of, "It wasn't my fault, I never got a shot." He was very entertaining and well liked.
I met Painter a different time. It was in the afternoon and I was practicing and he was just telling some stories and really entertaining. Something else funny, is that one of the troops in my shop on Hurlburt had to go to jail one weekend for something, I believe it was alcohol related or something, and he came back with a really jacked up haircut....prison haircut you might say, and I jokingly asked him who gave it to him and he said,"Some funny old man named Painter who was in prison with me." Now, I'm not sure if it was the same Painter, but Ft Walton beach isn't the biggest place in the world to live you know? Anyways, that's just my two cents.
 
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I met Painter and Scotty while I lived in Ft. Walton beach and was a frequenter of Starcade Billiards. Scotty is a superb player period. I remember during one 9 ball tournament, one of the bigger ones they have there (in 1999 I believe), Scotty played David Broxson and I believe Scotty and David had something on the side that David wouldn't make it past 4 games in a race to nine, or maybe five. Well David got the first break and put a 5 or 6 pack on Scotty before he could even get started. David ended up winning the set 9-1 or 9-2, and Scottie's facial expression was funny, and he just looked at everyone and said something to the effect of, "It wasn't my fault, I never got a shot." He was very entertaining and well liked.
I met Painter a different time. It was in the afternoon and I was practicing and he was just telling some stories and really entertaining. Something else funny, is that one of the troops in my shop on Hurlburt had to go to jail one weekend for something, I believe it was alcohol related or something, and he came back with a really jacked up haircut....prison haircut you might say, and I jokingly asked him who gave it to him and he said,"Some funny old man named Painter who was in prison with me." Now, I'm not sure if it was the same Painter, but Ft Walton beach isn't the biggest place in the world to live you know? Anyways, that's just my two cents.
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Hey,

Were you stationed at Hurlburt in the Air Force? I had a friend who got stationed there years back named John Kane(Redman). Just wondering if you know of him.

Dave
 
I was talking to Scotty over the weekend and he told me about a time he and Painter had a really rich guy stuck big time. Painter was playing the guy and they had been playing 3 days and were up $19,000. Painter was playing as well as he ever had and like Scotty drinking big too. They were playing for $900 a game and Painter ran out to the nine and was virtually straight in on the nine but a long shot. Painter fires the 9 in and the cue ball follows it into the pocket. Scotty jumps up and starts screaming, "Why in the hell didn't you stop the ball?" Painter said, "I had to cheat the pocket." Scotty says, "You idiot, it was the 9 ball." The guy comes back and gets all the money back. Scotty said the time was $900.
 
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I saw Painter giving a guy named Sam the last 3 and the break playing 6 ball on a 9' table. But they funniest part was Sam had to use his toes as a bridge. He put his foot up on the table and had a sock on so the cue would slip between his toes. It was the funniest shit I have every seen. Painter didn't like that game much......ask Painter about that.......The other guys name was Sam beavers I think. He knows him.
 
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