Vintage Minnesota fats tables

His Boy Elroy · 2013-09-03T22:36:14+00:00

I posted this in the equipment forum a few days ago. it's gotten 75 views and 0 replies, so I'll post it here. I mentioned in a post that I play on a 1971 Minnesota Fats table. Not everyone was impressed. Seems from the 70's and still today, Fats tables were and are sold in department stores and they max out at $1300. We bought ours at a dealership that sold Fats tables exclusively. My dad tells me he paid $600 for it which translates to to $3460 today. He tells me they went out of business shorty after we bought ours. A poster tells me he remembers "Fats" tables at sears in the 70's so someone must have bought the name Another poster vaguely recalls they might have had an affiliation with Brunswick and were basically Brunswick tables, albeit of lesser quality. That could be. I was at the dealership when we bought it. I was 11. I might be wrong, but I don't think there were any furniture tables at the dealership. So maybe Brunswick had only small number of strictly "play" tables compared to furniture tables as is the case today and "Fats" offered a large selection of "play tables that were less expensive than Brunswick's "play" tables. Any input would be appreciated.

Thread starter His Boy Elroy
Start date Sep 3, 2013

His Boy Elroy

AzB Silver Member

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Sep 11, 2013

#101

Yeah, I should have gotten a post to the mechanics forum sooner. I was actually kinda busy around the house that night, activity picked up in the thread; oh I don't know! Thanks for the suggestions, all.

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