Terminology...behind the head string...!!!

[Jagr Fan]

Does anyone recall having the area "behind the head string" referred to as "the grass" rather than "the kitchen"...???? And, if so, how & when did it change. I stopped playing pool in 1970, and didn't start playing again until after retirement in 2005.
But, here on the East Coast, in the mid-late 60's, many games required that you had BIH behind the head string after an opponent scratched or an OB was spotted...but at that time, this area was almost always referred to as "the grass"...!!!

 

[Johnnyt]

I lived in NY from the 1940's to 1980. I never heard it called in the grass. Johnnyt

 

[measureman]

I've been playing since 1961 and over 25 years was in NJ and I've never heard that term (grass) in pool at all. Now outside behind the room I heard that term a lot :grin:

 

[3andstop]

I'm from the east coast... never heard it called "the grass" either. I was trying to think of terms I have heard of and all I can come up with is ... "your feet are wet", "your slip is showing",

Maybe they only called it grass if you were one toke over the "line". Get it, the line .... :slap:

 

[BLange]

Maybe smoking grass???

 

[dopop62]

in the 'grass'

I never heard it called anything else but the "grass" here in south central
Kentucky in the late fifties on into the seventies..

 

[Blue Hog ridr]

Cue ball at one end of the table, object ball at the other end.
Green Acres. Thats all I know.