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doubledragon
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I must confess, I love to shoot pool. My pool playing days began in the 90s when I rented a movie called "The color of money" starring Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. I was hooked on pool after watching that movie.
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I love the Werewolves of London scene in The color of money.
And his hair was perfect.
I used to shoot a lot, but don't have any billiards halls nearby any longer and my buddy who had a table moved out of state. The Hustler was my favorite pool movie.
I shot pool quite a few nights, until the wee hours of the morning, from 17-20. Probably the reason I dropped out of college.
I went back to college a few years later and graduated. But the characters I got to know in a pool hall in the 60's was an education in and of itself.
I loved The Hustler as well, Jackie Gleason was great as Minnesota Fats. The Color of Money is actually a kind of sequel to The Hustler, showing what became of "Fast Eddie" Felson years later. Both great movies.
There's actually a pool hall within walking distance of where I live, and I walk up there and shoot a lot, and drink beer and stumble home. You should see me stumbling home late at night, it's pathetic. I got lost one night.
I just find Tom Cruise annoying and his center tooth pretty creepy ...
Damn, after seeing that picture, I won't be watching The Color of Money again!😂😂
Once you see it, it can't be unseen
😂😂😂😂 I'll be seeing that tooth in my nightmares!
Of course, my favorite pool movie is "The Ruffler".
The Ruffler. This is what I do all day. There is no helping me, I'm just too far gone.
I used to shoot pool down Salisbury Beach back in the 80’s, there were tons of tables now I don’t think there is a single one down there anymore. I was never that good but had some fun with it
only at joe's spa . problem is it closed down 30 years ago
I have a couple relatives who are great at pool. One uncle, according to stories I heard, used to always win a weekly bar tournament guaranteeing his drinks were free for another week. OT I know, but he has been sober over 30 years.
Anyway, he tried to teach me to play when I was maybe in early high school. I never got very good, but I loved to play and continued doing so maybe once a week until into college. I was never consistent. I was the kind of guy who could make a lot of shots in a row, but next game I would scratch on my break while barely moving a ball.
I haven't played in probably twenty years.
I don't remember if we discussed this here, but iirc billiards was a game encouraged for youth in the early 20th century, but a propaganda campaign was used to successfully sully the image of the game.
Started playing when i was about 8 years old, made a fairly good living between '75 &'90 hanging out at the honky tonks and discos shooting pool and playing foosball. Just recently joined a wed. night league at the local VFW after a long hiatus.
i'm really good. been hustling suckas for years. here's what one of my power breaks looks like.
That's what I was referring to doing in my previous comment.
i can't believe i found footage of you at the pool hall performing one of your trick shots
😂😂😂😂 And this footage was taken of me leaving the pool hall one night.
Joe Hale taught me how to shoot pool. He was a full-blooded Blackfoot. He always answered his phone with, " Joe's pool hall 8 ball speaking. " I was never any good at it. R.I.P. JOE.
My father owned two pool rooms and we had a 4 1/2 x 9 Brunswick slate pool table in our basement.
So yes, i was pretty good at the game.
I placed third in a large pool tournament up at Penn State. To this day i still can't believe i got beat - LOL
Sorry for a second there I thought you said Joe Hill
Like we need pool players to unionize , amIright?
At UGA/Athens in the early 90s there was a bar called Lawreys that did nickel night drinks of gatorade hunch punch. Used to go shoot pool with a couple dorm buddies there in teams for money. Used to do alright probably 8/10 nights and brought home a few bucks.
One of my brothers has a table in his bar room, that's about the only pool I've played in a few years.
I do!