One Pocket Ghost
Verified Member
Rodan said:______________________________________________________________
Sorry, Ghost. I’m not a Floridian. My story is, I am a total pool enthusiast,
especially for one-pocket, but I’m a lifetime B player because I never paid my
dues by working hard enough to develop any skill.
However, I have been fantastically lucky in that during 40 years of working
at temp design jobs I got to hang out and sweat the action in pool rooms all
over the country after work and on weekends. I got to see the great ones
pass through and match up.
A lot of rooms I visited were while just passing through, like Bakers in Tampa.
I hung out for longer periods at Grady’s place in Colorado Springs, the Cue
Club, Crystal Palace and Cue-Topia in Las Vegas, Rusty’s in Dallas, Woody’s in
Arlington TX, California Billiards in San Jose, Hard Times in Bellflower, Edgies in
Milpitas CA, and at Dr. Cue’s and later The Golden Fleece in Kenmore WA.
I owned a pool room in Springfield Oregon from 2000 to 2003. You can see
an outtake from my TV ad at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwHsUe1BPiU
That’s Sheldon Lebow the cuemaker, on the far left in the opening scene.
I have many, many stories of things I have witnessed during those years,
and I will post some of them if people are interested. They are not really
about 1-P or any specific pool game, they are about pool players.
Best regards to all denizens of the pool, especially One-Pocket, world.
John E. Ardans a/k/a Springfield Slim a/k/a Rodan.
Whidbey Island, WA
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Welcome aboard John...
Yep, you were very fortunate to have a job that let you travel around all those years and hang out at lots of the great old action rooms - I'm jealous....
- Ghost