Me....................1954 AGE 7, Boys Club (before the politically correct) Boys, and Girls Club just out side Coral Gables (Miami Florida):wink:
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Where and when did you get your first POOL experience??????????????????????
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Same for me maybe 1964 age 8 Rhode Island.
Watch the older kids and wished I could play as good as they could.
I remember we had a rule jump a ball off the table and you had to sit out an hour
Mckinney Recreation and Dougs Pool Hall, Mckinney,Tx, about 1968. I remember that alot of kids parents wouldn't allow them anywhere near a poolroom, because of maybe a bad influence.
Shooting pool was one of the few things i did with my Dad, he didn't fish or hunt. He shot pool and played moon (dominos). He hated to see me waste money on pinball machines. I think i got about 2 bucks a week allowance back then.
If the old man was winner playing moon he would kick me a few extra bucks, just don't tell mom. We played that if your opponent scratched you had to shoot from behind the string line. I was to young and inexperienced but anybody with any reasoning would have taken advantage of the intentional scratch:smile:.
1965 when I was 14
My older brother John purchased a Sears 9' table, ball return, one piece plywood table top/ mud balls. We could not get it in the basement. So, my brother cut the floor upstairs. Cutting a section out in between two of the rafters. About 4 guys lower the table down with ropes from the first floor to a few guys in the basement......LOL
That is how my learning began..... Good memories.
My older brother John purchased a Sears 9' table, ball return, one piece plywood table top/ mud balls. We could not get it in the basement. So, my brother cut the floor upstairs. Cutting a section out in between two of the rafters. About 4 guys lower the table down with ropes from the first floor to a few guys in the basement......LOL
That is how my learning began..... Good memories.
I was 16...
My Mom wanted me out of the house so she could set up for a surprise 16th birthday party for me in 1969. She asked my older brother to take me somewhere for a few hours so he asked if I wanted to go to the pool room with him. Since you had to be 17 to get in, and he was my older brother wanting me to hang out with him and his friends, I jumped at the chance. I was hooked.
Damn him
A few months later I had a fake ID made that said I was 17 and started going after school. Oh well, school was over rated anyway
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Dave
My Mom wanted me out of the house so she could set up for a surprise 16th birthday party for me in 1969. She asked my older brother to take me somewhere for a few hours so he asked if I wanted to go to the pool room with him. Since you had to be 17 to get in, and he was my older brother wanting me to hang out with him and his friends, I jumped at the chance. I was hooked.
Damn him
A few months later I had a fake ID made that said I was 17 and started going after school. Oh well, school was over rated anyway
. Dave
My first memory of pool is when I was five at someone's cottage, I don't vaguely remember knocking some balls around.
My first clear memory of playing was at a resort with my parents when I was 12. I played a game with my dad, which I probably lost and then I ended up playing another game with some kid which took forever to get through.
But I didn't start playing more than once every 7 years until I was 21. Terrible age to get hooked, my marks plummeted. Love life didn't fair a whole lot better.
My first clear memory of playing was at a resort with my parents when I was 12. I played a game with my dad, which I probably lost and then I ended up playing another game with some kid which took forever to get through.
But I didn't start playing more than once every 7 years until I was 21. Terrible age to get hooked, my marks plummeted. Love life didn't fair a whole lot better.
When I was a little kid I got one of those kiddie tables for my birthday or Xmas. It was maybe 4 feet long, with the fold up legs, particle board bed, small balls and kid size cue sticks. Funny, it actually had a ball return.
My first "real" pool experience (still just a small kid), was at the YMCA. My dad played volleyball on Tuesday evenings there. He would take me with and I would goof around in the gym on the trampoline and stuff until he was done. Then we would hit the swimming pool for a bit then go into the billiard room and play pool for a while before going home.
The bug hit pretty early for me. :wink:
My first "real" pool experience (still just a small kid), was at the YMCA. My dad played volleyball on Tuesday evenings there. He would take me with and I would goof around in the gym on the trampoline and stuff until he was done. Then we would hit the swimming pool for a bit then go into the billiard room and play pool for a while before going home.
The bug hit pretty early for me. :wink:
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I learned how to play at the Eagles lodge when I was 7 or 8. We lived in Festus, MO, and we came back to Indiana every year on vacation, where my dad would meet with his uncle at the Eagles. Man they never let me run out of quarters or snacks or sodas! That was what I looked forward to the most about our vacations. Ahhhh, what a great time that was!
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Wow! All these romantic stories! Me...in a bar in college. The Cats Eye Saloon. Played for about a month then walked down to the local pool hall and literally demanded a job. I said I didn't care what it was as long as I got free pool. Ended up cleaning out the spittoons and polishing balls by hand.
At about age 14 (which would have been about 1958) at a Roller Skating Club party. It was in the house in which Daniel Webster lived when he was a US Senator in Marshfield, MA. The owner of the roller rink lived there and had a pool table in one room. Instantly fell in love with the game, but there was no pool room anywhere near our town and it was another 4 years or so before I got to pick up a cue again in college.
Started when I was 13, rode my motorcycle into town to school and would stop by the pool hall every day after school on the way home. They liked to see me coming because I always had money as I started working when I was 8. Got air barrelled by two of the regulars and 86'ed as I took a cue to 'em and f'ed them up pretty bad. Then when in high school I would stop by the SUB (Student Union Building) at the university to play. Big stakes,.05 on the five and a dime on the nine. Then I had my first big money game, twenty dollar eight ball, won $280.00, got air barrelled on the last twenty or it would have been 300. Learned my lesson from before, waited till we got to the parking lot, took his watch,shoes and keys to hold until I got the last twenty. Is there an antedote to the pool bug bite? I think not....
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Uptown Cigar Store
Racine, Wi.
1940
Racine, Wi.
1940
