The greatest collection of famous cues

HawaiianEye said:
The entire collection should be cataloged, documented, and professionally photographed and sold in a high-dollar "coffee table" book.

If there is EVER a "pool museum", 99% of the pool players in the world will NEVER know of it, much less visit it.

I don't think a "pool museum" could ever stand on its own. There, SIMPLY, isn't enough people interested to keep it going.

It would take a "good Samaritan", with TONS of bucks, to set up a museum and absorb the costs, in a losing proposition.

I can walk into the pool hall any day of the week and 99% of the players don't have a clue about pool history, short of maybe hearing of Minnesota Fats, Jeanette Lee, or SVB. There is no way they would be knowledgeable of any players of decades long ago.

You can show the majority of them a $10,000 cue by the best cue maker in the world and they are more impressed with a BK3. They are clueless and choose to remain that way.

I would visit a "pool museum" in a minute if I was near one, but I'd never plan my travels or vacations around one.
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I'm sure all that cataloging and documentation was done a long time ago.
The Glenn collection has been wildly known and regarded by people everywhere.
I have spoken with quite a few people who have bought and sold cues with Pete Glenn, and Denny who is a great guy posts here on AZ regularly.
The question all of a sudden is what to do with 800 collectible cues.
Assuming the Glenn family wants to do anything at all with them.
 
HawaiianEye said:
The entire collection should be cataloged, documented, and professionally photographed and sold as a high-dollar "coffee table" book.

If there is EVER a "pool museum", 99% of the pool players in the world will NEVER know of it, much less visit it.

I don't think a "pool museum" could ever stand on its own. There, SIMPLY, isn't enough people interested to keep it going.

It would take a "good Samaritan", with TONS of bucks, to set up a museum and absorb the costs, in a losing proposition.

I can walk into the pool hall any day of the week and 99% of the players don't have a clue about pool history, short of maybe hearing of Minnesota Fats, Jeanette Lee, or SVB. There is no way they would be knowledgeable of any players of decades long ago.

You can show the majority of them a $10,000 cue by the best cue maker in the world and they are more impressed with a BK3. They are clueless and choose to remain that way.

I would visit a "pool museum" in a minute if I was near one, but I'd never plan my travels or vacations around one.
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I like the "idea" of a museum to be able to go see in person, but I concur that a museum is unlikely. I think the collection would play a good part of a billiard history book. I don't believe there is enough regard for the history of billiards nor the interest in knowing about the bygone days of billiard greats. Sad as it may seem, the interest in where the roots and foundation of the game came from just isn't interesting enough to the current generation. The younger generation is more interested in their next Instagram post going viral or getting the most likes on FB.
 
Just two comments:

- Most important would be input on this subject from Dennis Glenn.

- A commercially available book would be a beautiful project, but the market for it would likely be extremely narrow.
 
Instead of a single museum, perhaps the pool cue equivalent to the Hard Rock Café would be worth considering when the collection is eventually passed on.
 
Type79 said:
Just two comments:

- Most important would be input on this subject from Dennis Glenn.

- A commercially available book would be a beautiful project, but the market for it would likely be extremely narrow.
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It was stated that Dennis posts here occasionally. His input into this might change this entire thread's direction. Also, I think a coffee table book would have about the same interest as the Billiard Encyclopedia or the Blue Books. I would also think calendars would have the same market.
 
Put a full color coffee table book and maybe a perpetual calendar on a crowd funding site and see what interest it generates. I'm in.
 
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