Slower Tables of Yesteryear

[Cornerman]

Good example of how the top players had to club the ball. I believe this was in 1989! Yes, they had Simonis, but the tables still played slower at times. Players weren’t bunting the balls around, and they had to have a stroke. It was a different game back then.

Thankful for these archived matches for us to watch.

 

[fastone371]

Even though this table is faster I dont much bunting going on here.

 

[white1]

Great thought. I think about it so often. The tables are crazy fast. Last table I bought for personal use I used strachan superweave and didnt pull it crazy tight. Real slow but fun to play on.

 

[HawaiianEye]

Good example of how the top players had to club the ball. I believe this was in 1989! Yes, they had Simonis, but the tables still played slower at times. Players weren’t bunting the balls around, and they had to have a stroke. It was a different game back then.

Thankful for these archived matches for us to watch.

I like "clubbing".

Back when pool was pool and not pachinko.

 

[ShootingArts]

I think tar and nicotine from smoking in the cloth had a lot to do with the slow cloth. Thicker cloth held a lot of it over time. Today's cloth is much cleaner and thinner. I guess it is over fifty years since I played in a room with all ten footers, heavy cloth, smoking, and poor climate control. It was cooled by a big five or six foot wall fan sucking in the humid nasty air straight off of the Mississippi River. You had to stroke a ball like you meant it, clay balls too!

It took a manly stroke to bank a ball, much less make it! Loved that place but it was a relic even in the early seventies.

Hu

 

[Mensabum]

I think tar and nicotine from smoking in the cloth had a lot to do with the slow cloth. Thicker cloth held a lot of it over time. Today's cloth is much cleaner and thinner. I guess it is over fifty years since I played in a room with all ten footers, heavy cloth, smoking, and poor climate control. It was cooled by a big five or six foot wall fan sucking in the humid nasty air straight off of the Mississippi River. You had to stroke a ball like you meant it, clay balls too!

It took a manly stroke to bank a ball, much less make it! Loved that place but it was a relic even in the early seventies.

Hu

Power stroke required. Bring your big stick.

 

[CocoboloCowboy]

Excuse are funny, but if you Improves, Adapt, and Overcome…..you might be OK.


Come to Arizona there is very little HUMIDITY in the Air, playing condition are totally different then in Humid Florida……….Again Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome, and you shall be fine.


Play Pool today, lost every game of ONE POCKET, I know why, it was my fault, s**t happens, I sucked today.

 

[ShootingArts]

Power stroke required. Bring your big stick.

The house sticks in the place were the size of baseball bats. First thing I noticed, my fingers didn't reach around the butt! After a game or two I stuck my fingers in a hole guesstimating the thickness of the slate. The owner was somewhat apologetic, "Only two and a half inch slate." Some of those old tables had three inch thick slate. Was my dream for many years to have one of those old tens with 2.5 or three inch slate.

I think the easiest stick to play with now is about three times the weight of the cue ball, 18.5 to 19.5 ounces. Back then if you tried a stick that light you wouldn't like it. Some of the sticks in there, I think the heaviest, were 26 ounces! I don't think any were under 22 ounces.

Hu

 

[Mensabum]

The house sticks in the place were the size of baseball bats. First thing I noticed, my fingers didn't reach around the butt! After a game or two I stuck my fingers in a hole guesstimating the thickness of the slate. The owner was somewhat apologetic, "Only two and a half inch slate." Some of those old tables had three inch thick slate. Was my dream for many years to have one of those old tens with 2.5 or three inch slate.

I think the easiest stick to play with now is about three times the weight of the cue ball, 18.5 to 19.5 ounces. Back then if you tried a stick that light you wouldn't like it. Some of the sticks in there, I think the heaviest, were 26 ounces! I don't think any were under 22 ounces.

Hu

I have the league kids ask me all the time why older cues were made so heavy with large diameter butts.
My hernia wouldn't like any of that 3".