'70's: .25 for full rack, .15 for 9 balls, and .10 for 6. Purvis's Pool Hall, Oxford, Mississippi, just off SW corner of the Square, next to the alley. Baxter, the 80 year old rack man, had terrible palsy and shook until the instant he locked the balls on the spot, otherwise he kept his hands in his nail apron till constantly jingling coins. He told many incredible stories, one of his favorites being of the holiday atmosphere surrounding the hangings on the courthouse lawn -- impassable streets jammed with mule-drawn wagons for miles from folks coming in from the county. This was truly Faulkner's town, but when I was there, it was going fast, and it's completely gone today. Will never be another pool hall, or town, like it.
300 miles to the south, my hometown room was rack your own at $1.50 per hour, with its own uniquely different ambiance.
