When pool was 65 cents an hour

When I was around 9 years old my bother took me for my fist pool game. Pool was:
9 ball...five cents a game
8 ball was a dime a game
snooker was 15 cents

This was around 1961.
 
oldzilla said:
yup dodge it was ! but ugliest car ever is a whole nother can of worms.
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I bought one of these in 1960. Factory air was the vents on the front fenders.
If it weren't for the bullet nose, the front and back almost looked the same.
The 4 doors opened from the center.. rear suicide doors! 3 Speed on the tree.
A navy blue chick magnet. Talk about an ugly car. Wish I still owned it today.

1951 Studebaker - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJsZMTy99E
 
speakin of cars !

i remember a friend in high school who had a checker. there was so much leg room in the back seat we had crap games in it during lunch hour everyday ! :cool:
 
I pay $8 per day so I could easily get $0.65 an hour after a long practice session which I plan on having tomorrow.
 
Pool was a dime a game, sixty cents an hour at the room where I first played. Does that qualify me as a geezer? :rolleyes::boring2:
 
gulfportdoc said:
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
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Home sweet home! .... but in midwest Galesburg Il. Brads pool hall.
 
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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old school those were the good old days.
or thats what i hear. i wish i was around back then.
i would still be on the road.
 
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