Where to play in LA
- Thread starter rod in atl
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Lou,
If you come to LA let's get together at Hard Times or Santa Monica - just let me know. I don't play one pocket, I prefer 10 ball. Doesn't have to be gambling but I'll bet if that's what you like.
Chris
Question... Being a So Cal native, but not having been there in too long...
I lived on 26th St & SM Blvd in '79-'81, across from the Pizza Hut, up a couple blocks from Bobs Big Boy. (Thank you rent control)
I went to a pool hall back then, best I can recall it was on SM Bvd @ 10th - 15th St. Is that the same hall y'all been jabbering about?
I lived on 26th St & SM Blvd in '79-'81, across from the Pizza Hut, up a couple blocks from Bobs Big Boy. (Thank you rent control)
I went to a pool hall back then, best I can recall it was on SM Bvd @ 10th - 15th St. Is that the same hall y'all been jabbering about?
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House of Billiards is Wilshire and 19th
Thanks Westcoast. I didn't play much pool back then. Wilshire is perpendicular to SM Bvd and a tad south IIRC. In college I worked at "Chilly Willy's" on ... heck, I forget, may have been Wilshire, just past the railroad tracks on the left. Just south of Westwood. They had a 7'er. We'd have the UCLA football team there one day, or women's softball team (making out) next. Good times.
Easy mistake to make. They actually cross (I think) so one is South of the other on the Westside and vice/versa on the East. or is that Sunset ? LOL. All those roads "over the hill" are the same and that entire Westside is now for those with white knuckles clutched to the steering wheel. Up here we are all laid back and the living is easy. Ask Tate.
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From Beverly Hills on west to the coast, Wilshire is north of, and runs parallel to Santa Monica Blvd.
Was Chilly Willy's a frozen yogurt shop on Westwood Blvd?
Maybe this has all just been a misunderstanding and Lou has been going to the wrong pool hall all this time.
I bet that's it.
I bet that's it.
Manila Billiards is closed on Thursday since everyone goes over to the Hardtimes Thursday night tournament. Best days for action at Manila are Friday and Saturday nights.
rod in atl
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That explains it all!!! I couldn't get free until late Thursday night, otherwise, I would've been at Hard Times myself.
I did make it over to HOB in Santa Monica Friday night to get a feel for those super tough Gold Crowns. I got a lesson on how to best manage the humidity and tight pockets from TrumanHW...we shot for a couple hours. I can't wait for my next SoCal trip to play on these tables. I'd never seen a GC that played so tough and fair at the same time. Where I live, all the Brunswick tables, along with most others, are buckets.
Rod
Rod
Im glad you made it last nite. I told the houseman Tyler to expect you. Im glad you met Truman. He is the tall guy I told you about who obsessively plays 9 ball on the front. He is like a human train running and running racks.
Next time you come into town call in and ask for me.
Keone
You've got to be kidding. You know full well if you want a game in SM you go up to the front action tables by the rail. You know Wayne is not some low life scuffler who has to brow beat players on the back tables who are not interested in action.
You also know damn well you were deliberately ducking the action. You peeked up at Wayne a couple of times and saw he was waiting for someone to challenge. When you finally slunk out of the room you made sure not to make eye contact with anyone on the action tables.
Now, it's OK to avoid action. Sometimes players are just not ready or don't feel like it. But, in your case, you later claimed no one would dare play you in SM. That's why you are a pathetic blowhard.
How can anyone say we're not fun?
The guy who plays Fatboy in S.M. will give Fatboy $300/game anytime Fatboy shows up. Maybe you could offer Fatboy some sportier action.
But, enough about S.M., Lou, why don't you tell us where you play regularly? Let's find out what the folks who play you think. Do you play players your own speed or do you go after C and D players? Do they think you're a fun guy there? Come on, Lou, inquiring minds want to know.
I'm not much of a rotation game player, Chris, but we can knock them around, that'd be great.
Lou Figueroa
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lol. Do you read fortunes down on the Santa Monica Pier?
You keep claiming to know that I deliberately did this and deliberately did that. Please up your game.
Lou Figueroa
How can anyone say we're not fun?
The guy who plays Fatboy in S.M. will give Fatboy $300/game anytime Fatboy shows up. Maybe you could offer Fatboy some sportier action.
But, enough about S.M., Lou, why don't you tell us where you play regularly? Let's find out what the folks who play you think. Do you play players your own speed or do you go after C and D players? Do they think you're a fun guy there? Come on, Lou, inquiring minds want to know.
ah, another guy with a reading problem. I didn't say you were no fun, I said that maybe you weren't "as "fun" as you think you are." I play at The Break across the river from St. Louis and play the few guys that still come in. Most of the guys I play are even games and there's one guy I give 10-7 and another I give 9-7. Occasionally someone like Gus will come through town and the last time he was here we played almost every day for two months. The way I was "brought up" is that you don't pick on C and D player -- you try and stick to guys in your own weight class or above. I especially don't like to see guys picking on "civilians" guys who obviously can't play and are there just to have a good time. Pool in St. Louis is pretty dead. We've lost at least a half dozen rooms in the last decade.
Lou Figueroa
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