The poolroom didn't close

Ralph Kramden

Ralph Kramden

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Our local poolroom didn't close. They just took out a few tables.
Not a 9 footer left. Only 7 foot coin ops for bar league 8 ballers.

What's worse than that.. A dance floor now replaces the tables.
When I walked in I couldn't believe my old eyes. Wanna' DANCE?
 
Sad!

Same thing happend in Houston with 5 pool halls here..., its sad! Lucky that there are so many Pool halls here that you can find another one with out any problems, but I fear that we are seeing the future of Pool in th USA.
 
It is sad.
I'm no expert here, but the footprint (space necessary to play) of a regulation size table is not quite double that of a bar table. This would mean that three bar tables could occupy the space of two full size tables.
In today's economy, where room owners are becoming more and more strapped for cash, the conversion from full-size to bar-size may be an unwelcomed necessity. :smile:
 
Same exact thing happened at one of my local pool halls. Took out several 9 footers to put in a fricking dance floor. I have not seen one single person on the dance floor since that happened a couple months ago.
 
Ralph Kramden said:
Our local poolroom didn't close. They just took out a few tables.
Not a 9 footer left. Only 7 foot coin ops for bar league 8 ballers.

What's worse than that.. A dance floor now replaces the tables.
When I walked in I couldn't believe my old eyes. Wanna' DANCE?
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So basically, your pool room closed.
 
This pretty much happened to a room where I live, opened up with 8 nice new GC, the guy had a wall of custom cues in a case around the pool table area for sale, up to several thousand in value, AE was one brand, some others that I don't remember. APA leagues started to play there. Over the years they put bar people closer and closer to the tables where you could not even play on 2 of them. There was also a nice restaurant attached to the place which is where I guess they focused on more. Then they took out 4 tables entirely, the wall of pool cues is gone, would like to know where they want, for all I know they stacked them in a closet somewhere.

Last time I was there, I don't think the workers even realized they had pool tables, the remaining ones were not lit up, looked like the area they were in was used for storage. Sad stuff.
 
This would have happened where I play (Malarkey's in Tacoma) but for the dedication of the owner.They added a comedy club up front and expanded the league area by removing 1 GC and adding a Valley.We still have 10 GCs and 2 weekly tourney on the 9 footers.

I know its tough to keep such a large amount of space that doesn't pay for itself but Clark Smith has been able to do it.Some afternoon/evenings there is no1 on the 9' tables while the bar-boxes are all packed.

I can see with another owner we would already have a dance floor or stage for live bands/shows instead of Gold Crowns.
 
As a fan of ballroom dancing, I fully support this trend. Nothing excites me more than the spins and twirls I produce, mostly by myself, on the dance floor. I don't care what is playing on the juke box, I just dance my arse off! Oh, and screw the pool tables!

Just kidding, how much money does a dance floor produce versus a pool table? Seems like a foolish decision to me.
 
I knew an owner that took out some 9 footers a few years back and replaced them with 8 footers. It didn't have anything to do with space, but more the customers wanted more 8 footers. Now as far as a dance floor......I think that is kind of strange.
 
Sad news Indeed,,but I'll only dance to ''Werewolves of London''.....

Man,,,they did something similar to a place in Lake George, N.Y...

Playing pool wasn't a priority,,,,,,,

Alan,,,,,,,
 
onepocketron said:
I knew an owner that took out some 9 footers a few years back and replaced them with 8 footers. It didn't have anything to do with space, but more the customers wanted more 8 footers. Now as far as a dance floor......I think that is kind of strange.
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You sure you don't mean 7 footers, aka bar boxes? 8 foot is a weird in-between size and pretty uncommon. The average customer doesn't know or care about that size, they want either a full table or a quarter table.
 
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