St. Louis is looks like Detroit in '75. It's Daja vu, all over again.

Also called - "Capitol Cue Club", ???

Grady - I remember it being The Rack, as you stated but wasn't it also called "The Capitol Cue Club". Maybe I'm getting "OldTimers" (as my smartass wife says) and that was somewhere else. I do remember that we all had to be "buzzed in" to enter.

TY & GL
 
OldHasBeen said:
Grady - I remember it being The Rack, as you stated but wasn't it also called "The Capitol Cue Club". Maybe I'm getting "OldTimers" (as my smartass wife says) and that was somewhere else. I do remember that we all had to be "buzzed in" to enter.

TY & GL
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At one time it was called the Capitol Cue Club. Then when it was informally called "The Rack", everyone had to get buzzed in.
I don't remember George Rood playing there but he may have. He just turned 90, though and the last year the Rack was open was 86' or 87". He would have been about 56 to 72, fairly old for that type of action.
 
Grady said:
At one time it was called the Capitol Cue Club. Then when it was informally called "The Rack", everyone had to get buzzed in.
I don't remember George Rood playing there but he may have. He just turned 90, though and the last year the Rack was open was 86' or 87". He would have been about 56 to 72, fairly old for that type of action.
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Grady, I'm sitting here trying to remeber the exact year and can't but it was 86 or 87. Just so everybody knows, Grady and I took down all the tables in there when it closed and he put them in storage in his garage.....you know....we didn't find a nickle hidden anywhere in that stinkin joint, I really thought I was going to find something...anything...I kept looking everywhere, it sucked.

There were two doors to get in and the second you had to be buzzed in. Before I met him and when he used to drink, Cornbread showed up with Burnette and a couple of other people and Gil wouldn't buzz him in cause they were drinking and I guess Red was pretty fucked up. Red's yellin at Gil "Open the Muthafuckin door muthafucker" and Gil's telling him thru the door that he won't let him in cause he's too drunk. So Red says "Well you stinkin muthafucka you" and PUNCHED HIS HAND RIGHT THRU THE GLASS and opened the door. It was all sliced up and bleeding like crazy and Red sits down and everybodys trying to get him to go to the hospital and he's yellin to get the fuck away from him he aint goin nowhere you motherfuckers. Anyway he finally went and got all stitched up. He had scars you could see all over his hand if you looked for them but he got lucky they did such a good job on him.

Before anyone asks; the reason it closed was no one would work the place or take care of anything on the building. I forget who took it from Gil first but I know Wolfie ended up with it and anyone that showed up and wanted to sit at the counter could run the place...seriously. You would walk in sometimes toward the end and no one would be in there..NO ONE..the doors would be open and nobody was in there. We would rumage around and there wasn't even anything worth taking besides the tables. Shit started happening in the area and the building had like 90 violations that needed to be corrected and Wolfie couldn't get anyone to work steady....so that was it, the end of an era. It wasn't really cause the action died, it was still around, but none of the pool players wanted a job working the place...............IMAGINE THAT!
 
Wow! How do you know of him? I grew up around him in Ohio he was around our town alot. He used to play billiards with me when I was 17. Special type of person and a successful at everything he did.

Kevin

sjm said:
To those who were there, was George Rood part of the Detroit action scene? I'v heard many say he was a very special player.
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More players arrive....

I won't mention names to protect the innocent but two more road players (one of which I will say is an 'ask the pro' on this board) showed up in St. Louis last night and immediately got into action. This town is getting crowded and the action is still going strong. Too bad OldHasBeen hasn't completed the East Wing of the OHB Mansion or he could make out like a bandit renting rooms for a week. I am still waiting for my buddy John Hager Jr to show up but he wasn't answering calls as of late last week.
 
The Rack

Speaking of The Rack, Stevelomako, Grady, OHB, or anyone else know if, Bernie Schwartz is still with us? Bernie played pretty sporty back then. Haven't seen him in 25 years.
 
Ok ChristyD, now you know. But all you had to do was a make phone call to someone real close to you to find out. HA. Keep in touch!!
 
ok watchez, maybe I wanted an objective point of view...lol. Thanx for the report. I promise I'll keep quiet!

Christyd
 
$Bill,
Bernie "The Hawk" has been doing very good. He was taking care and was extremely devoted to his wife who unfortunately passed away last year. He plays cards and the occasional pool game now and then, nothing big for a long time, just something to pass some time if he came around. Always got along with him great and players know he was a hell of a player.
 
Although I was there only a handful of times to play in the 70's, does the "Capitol Social Club" ring a bell? I recall a late night 9-ball session with Mickey Cordell on a 10" pool table in there that made me feel like biting the tip of my cue off! The tattered reclining chairs gave the place charm.

Martin


OldHasBeen said:
Grady - I remember it being The Rack, as you stated but wasn't it also called "The Capitol Cue Club". Maybe I'm getting "OldTimers" (as my smartass wife says) and that was somewhere else. I do remember that we all had to be "buzzed in" to enter.

TY & GL
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