Who is this guy?

[WildWing]

Anyone who thinks Dallas is wearing a girl's watch is probably not through puberty. Watches were way smaller in the 60s and before. The manhole sized watches were unknown back then.

 

[jimmyco]

That's a tiny watch for a man even in that era, 50's-60's.

Yes, it is.

 

[L.S. Dennis]

It is Dallas. He was a great player who somehow managed to stay under the radar compared to some of his contemporaries. He played all games at a high level, including Three Cushions. I believe he is in the HOF. He should be! Still alive and kicking in Rockford, IL. I think he sold his poolroom a few years back.

I remember seeing him playing at the Sands in Reno during the 90’s still could play great. What a good straight pool player he was, like you say flew under the radar compared to some others

 

[middleofnowhere]

Anyone know who this guy is?

It is Dallas. He was a great player who somehow managed to stay under the radar compared to some of his contemporaries. He played all games at a high level, including Three Cushions. I believe he is in the HOF. He should be! Still alive and kicking in Rockford, IL. I think he sold his poolroom a few years back.

He once put out a video of a 100 ball run with a voice over explaining what he was doing. This was when video was pretty new.

 

[alstl]

I still have my Dad's- runs perfect after 60+ years and all I ever did was a few cleanings. A Hamilton. I started collecting watches about 25 years ago while searching for pool cues and golf clubs at Garage sales and bought a 1930s watch for 50cents and sold it for $500! I had many finds of watches - Omega Seamasters, etc. - even found one last year at a yard sale and made $300 on it!

It was routine for guys with 20+ years of service to get watches from 1940 to 1970 upon retirement; and many of those watches ended up at yard sales in the 1990s as they started to pass on. Usually in a plastic bag with other costume jewelry - their kids saw no use for wind up watches any more- but there is a big collector base out there for them.

Funny watch story although at the time I wasn't laughing. In Vietnam I handled top secret codeword messages. We put the messages in paper burn bags and then take them to a burn room to burn them in a furnace. I was ordered to do the burn detail one day and the guy E-6 who ordered me to do it didn't check with the brass first. Turns out unknown to me smoke from the burn alerted the NVA to our position and they started firing artillery. Some guy starts banging on the door of the burn room and I don't let him in because I know he doesn't have the proper security clearance. That pissed off the E-7 to sent the guy. I finish the burn. Shovel the ashes into a large trash can. Glad to finally get out of that hot burn room - easily 120 degrees in that room. Carry the ashes to where we dumped them. Artillery shell landed about 200 yards away. On the way back with the empty trash can the E-7 stops me and writes me up and asks where I work. I get back to my work spaces and they are all cussing each other out. Turns out the brass called them and the E-6 who ordered me to do the burn denied it. Several guys heard him and were calling him a liar.

Then the watch related part of the story. I went to the toilet to wash all the soot off and took my $40 waterproof Seiko watch off and laid it on the sink and forgot it. Went back an hour later when I realized I didn't have it and it was gone.

Followed orders. Did the burn detail as ordered and for my efforts I got shot at, wrote up and my watch stolen. What pissed me off the most was the watch. The guy who stole it is fortunate I never caught him.