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p.s. great pic of billy.....
Great find, 1PW! Those weren't easy to come by as I recall. I don't know if they were sent to poolrooms, or whether it was subscription, or both.
Interesting that they say "The New" National... Wonder if it was a new format, or whether the paper had just come back into existence. I see these are from the Volume 1 series, so the paper must have just fired back up. Maybe Billy J. knows.
Nice to see "Gilbert Tops Tiff's Tourney", which is referring to 3C champ Alan Gilbert winning a tournament at Tiff Payne's North Hollywood Billiards-- one of the great 3C rooms in the country in those days.
I didn't realize that they were in print to 1995. John Henderson's fine Cue Sports Journal started up in the early '90s as I recall.
~Doc
Yes Doc, anyone could subscribe to that paper.. .. I had stacks of them also and gave them to a young fry cook I knew who got interested in pool. He was wanting them bad.. I remember subscribing for a year and after a year was up, they just kept sending them. After about two years I felt a little guilty and sent in another years payment and ended up getting them for about 5 years or so. I think the new was because it had come back.
Great find, 1PW! Those weren't easy to come by as I recall. I don't know if they were sent to poolrooms, or whether it was subscription, or both.
Interesting that they say "The New" National... Wonder if it was a new format, or whether the paper had just come back into existence. I see these are from the Volume 1 series, so the paper must have just fired back up. Maybe Billy J. knows.
Nice to see "Gilbert Tops Tiff's Tourney", which is referring to 3C champ Alan Gilbert winning a tournament at Tiff Payne's North Hollywood Billiards-- one of the great 3C rooms in the country in those days.
I didn't realize that they were in print to 1995. John Henderson's fine Cue Sports Journal started up in the early '90s as I recall.
~Doc
I think the title of "New"... was when Bob Mullen (and maybe Ray Abrams from Cushion n Cue) bought the rights to the paper I think in the early 70's. I worked for Bob and Ray both for a short time. Ray at his poolrooms and Bob at his retail shop that also made and repaired pool tables plus dit cue work.
So that was before Conrad Burkman bought it? Because he owned it for many years until he closed it down and retired only about 10 years or so ago.
One funny thing about many of the old issues is how many player names are spelled wrong. I have often wondered if it was players did't really want their name and photo out there that much lol.
Almost all mag's will send after you stop paying, they need the numbers for their ad buyers.
Cool! Conrad was a very good supporter of the One Pocket Hall of Fame! He came to almost all, until his health just did not permit it. He also provided many photos of players from the past!! Rest in Peace ConradI'm unclear about that, sorry. Conrad was either a partner with them (probable) or bought it sometime in the 70's. I didn't know Conrad but knew of him.
I found this excerpt of an article that AZB published a while ago about Conrad, which explains it all:
We also wanted to know about Conrad's history with the National Billiard News. As publisher of the oldest billiard publication we knew the road could not have always been smooth. "Two friends of mine, Ray Abrams and Bob Mullins, bought the National Billiard News and got into a bit of a hole right from the get-go. After only three issues they needed another partner to buy in to supply the money to keep it going.
"So I thought about it and told them that I would come on board if I could have say in how the money was spent and the advertising and the subscriptions. They agreed and I've been here ever since. When I came on we had only 300 subscribers and maybe 200 of those were freebies. We righted the ship and eventually Ray and I bought everyone else out. Ray continues his presence on the masthead but hasn't visited the office in a number of years, so I have control of the publication.
Well there you go