When pool was 65 cents an hour

Ralph Kramden said:
Honeymooners episode - Bensonhurst bomber part 1

Pool was 65 cents an hour. Norton wins the coin toss and breaks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-09PlIF3EU
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thanks so much for posting this
i ended up watching part 2 and 3
i grew up watching the honeymooners, but never saw that episode
when i was around 9 or 10 yrs old, mid 1960's,
my dad would take me to royal family billiards in oakley
it was 60 cents an hour then

the entertainment book had coupons for buy one hour get a half hour free
so, my dad could take me out for an hour and half for a whoppin' $1.20
if was realllyyyyyyyyyyy lucky, i'd get a pepsi and a candy bar too :eek:
of course at the time, i didnt know i was in the presence of greatness
joey spaeth managed this room
no doubt gary spaeth was in there too
 
Great episode ... But also, these days with $5 or $10 dollar charge for all day, it ain't much more expensive in a lot of places all these years later. :)
 
My room (East Islip Billiard's) in 1966 on Long Island, NY was $0.90 a stick each for one or two players. Rent was $120 a month...I had 9 tables. Johnnyt
 
In johnstown ,ny it was ed and clark cigar store. cigars , cigarettes ,
magazines , newspapers up front and 5 old brunswicks in the back room.
90 cents an hour. i can still hear ed getman's voice like no others. he had some good sayings. knock a ball off the table and you hear him up front sayin "ram ram ram, why dont ya just get on the table with a golf club".

3 miles away in Gloversville, ny Joe Procita was playin in the downtown room that had 6 or 7 brunswick centennials.

they were both the kind of old poolhalls you never see anymore. with raised benches, spitunes and frequent smoke clouds hovering luminated by the lights that hung low over the tables.:cool:
 
Pool

In the 60's in Denver there were several pool halls.
The going rate was a penny a minute.
Since we're still play on the same tables 45-years later I think the rates
should still be a penny a minute.
 
oldzilla said:
In johnstown ,ny it was ed and clark cigar store. cigars , cigarettes ,
magazines , newspapers up front and 5 old brunswicks in the back room.
90 cents an hour. i can still hear ed getman's voice like no others. he had some good sayings. knock a ball off the table and you hear him up front sayin "ram ram ram, why dont ya just get on the table with a golf club".

3 miles away in Gloversville, ny Joe Procita was playin in the downtown room that had 6 or 7 brunswick centennials.

they were both the kind of old poolhalls you never see anymore. with raised benches, spitunes and frequent smoke clouds hovering luminated by the lights that hung low over the tables.:cool:
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That's my kinda place, OZ!! In the late 1950's I played at Nick's poolroom in Dormont, PA (Pittsburgh). 8 ball and 9 ball were 10 cents a rack, rotation was 15 cents; and straight pool was 60 cents per hour. All the rooms still had spittoons, and there was always the faint odor of cigars in the air. Heaven!

Doc
 
I'm old enough to have seen the original show.
In the early 60's we played, as Doc did, by the rack. Eight-ball and nine-ball was a dime a rack, Snooker was fifteen cents. City ordinance did not permit alcohol sales in poolrooms, and they couldn't be open on Sunday. I wish it were the way it used to be.
 
When I was in high school in the late 60's the min wage was about $1.25 an hour. Pool cost about that per hour. Today the min wage in NJ is I think $7.25 an hour. The cost of pool is $6 an hour per person for two people to play. Based on these numbers, pool is cheaper today than 40 years ago.
 
The first room I played in was charging 60 cents an hour. When the owner replaced four tables with new Brunswicks he raised his rates to 80 cents an hour. We almost had a mutiny. I miss those days.
 
65 cents a hour was a lot of money at the time. There was another episode where Ralph was accusing Alice of blowing their money and Alice lived the life of luxury on Ralph's pay of $40 per week or 60 cents per hour.
 
TheBook said:
65 cents a hour was a lot of money at the time. There was another episode where Ralph was accusing Alice of blowing their money and Alice lived the life of luxury on Ralph's pay of $40 per week or 60 cents per hour.
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yup , and a gallon of gas was prolly 19.9 cents or less. idk didn't ave my first car till 1967 at the age of 16. a lancer with three on the tree for 35 bucks. i'm thinkin plymouth made those, long time ago geeez !
 
oldzilla said:
yup , and a gallon of gas was prolly 19.9 cents or less. idk didn't ave my first car till 1967 at the age of 16. a lancer with three on the tree for 35 bucks. i'm thinkin plymouth made those, long time ago geeez !
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Dodge made the Lancer, Plymouth made the Valiant...I had a '61 Valiant.

Same car, different name. If you watch 70's action shows on tv, a lot of those were destroyed in crash scenes. lol..the ugliest car ever built, imho.

Jeff Livingston
 
chefjeff said:
Dodge made the Lancer, Plymouth made the Valiant...I had a '61 Valiant.

Same car, different name. If you watch 70's action shows on tv, a lot of those were destroyed in crash scenes. lol..the ugliest car ever built, imho.

Jeff Livingston
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yup dodge it was ! but ugliest car ever is a whole nother can of worms.

i remember pacer's, pinto's, edsel's to be pretty bad. you can go on and on about it, but nowadays too they got some awful ones. those little ones that look just like a box with baby carraige wheels are god awful.

would make for a long thread imo, but on the npr forum.
 
oldzilla said:
yup dodge it was ! but ugliest car ever is a whole nother can of worms.

i remember pacer's, pinto's, edsel's to be pretty bad. you can go on and on about it, but nowadays too they got some awful ones. those little ones that look just like a box with baby carraige wheels are god awful.

would make for a long thread imo, but on the npr forum.
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Hands down..ugliest ever was the Pontiac Aztec.

Thanks for the thread...I watched all 3 parts. Wish we had TV like that today.
 
At the Cue Ball in the early 70's I charged 90 cents and hour for the first player and 60 cents an hour for the second and third player. The fourth player (or more) was free. So I could get a maximum of 2.10 an hour on each table. At night the minimum charge was for two players (or 1.50 an hour). With 22 tables, on a busy Friday or Saturday night, I was haulin' in over $40 an hour off the pool. On a good day the pool would bring in over $250! Not bad considering the rent was $600 a month. :)
 
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