Who is this guy?
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L.S. Dennis
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Tommy Parker from Cleveland.
I took a 14.1 lessons from him 40 some years ago. He was credited with over 600 ball run but told me it was in the 300's. He was a very good player but couldn't hold up gambling, so he did not.
He also made pool cues and I picked his brain about making them myself. He didn't want to say much about making cues because there was nothing new to be invented. Told me it was a bad decision. Well I started making break cues and quite a few players used them and still mention using them. Maybe I should have stuck with my dream...now everybody has a break cue. All I can say besides he was a great guy and player is that he crushed my dream. LOL.
I took a 14.1 lessons from him 40 some years ago. He was credited with over 600 ball run but told me it was in the 300's. He was a very good player but couldn't hold up gambling, so he did not.
He also made pool cues and I picked his brain about making them myself. He didn't want to say much about making cues because there was nothing new to be invented. Told me it was a bad decision. Well I started making break cues and quite a few players used them and still mention using them. Maybe I should have stuck with my dream...now everybody has a break cue. All I can say besides he was a great guy and player is that he crushed my dream. LOL.
Seems like he is properly named now. His picture did bring back memories of an old friend, Walter "Blackie" Sands. Walter had spent a fair amount of time on stage as a guitar player and back-up singer in the fifties and sixties. He always said he looked like a '40 Chevy coming up the road with the back doors open! His other vanity was his legs, below the knee. He said he had chicken legs, nothing but skin and bone below the knee. His legs looked normal to me but in the eighties he was still turning the world upside down looking for bellbottom trousers to hide his chicken legs!
Back before these enlightened times ears were often used as convenient handles on kids. I don't know if that is the reason but a lot of country boys from that era have ears that seem to stick straight out.
RIP Walter!
Hu
Back before these enlightened times ears were often used as convenient handles on kids. I don't know if that is the reason but a lot of country boys from that era have ears that seem to stick straight out.
RIP Walter!
Hu
23DenaliBDE
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I could probably make more than one in a row if I had my own radar. In my part of the world everyone resembling him has the nickname Wingnut