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Bought a Pool Table
Don McManus
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Found an old Brunswick Medalist at a local consignment furniture store.
$ 1,200.00 delivered with an additional $ 600.00 to install an level the slates and new felt.
It appears to have spent most of its early life in a smoke-filled bar. (Kind of like its new owner.)
The mother of pearl is stained yellow, as are the point counters.
The brass on the corner protectors is well worn from decades of forearms, elbows and sweat.
A commercial model, built like a tank. A well used, but beautiful tank.
Rekindles some fond memories.
$ 1,200.00 delivered with an additional $ 600.00 to install an level the slates and new felt.
It appears to have spent most of its early life in a smoke-filled bar. (Kind of like its new owner.)
The mother of pearl is stained yellow, as are the point counters.
The brass on the corner protectors is well worn from decades of forearms, elbows and sweat.
A commercial model, built like a tank. A well used, but beautiful tank.
Rekindles some fond memories.
Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.
Brad Steele
Brad Steele
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I caught that
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
In my younger days I had a neon tan year round.
But all I found them bars was guys it got done felt 10 ft tall and wanted to get in a fight with the biggest person that was there which was usually me.
Strip bars on the other hand are all right but not great. I could belly up to the bar while everybody else is watching the skanks dance and throw their money away, and not be bothered. Although it does piss off the skanks when you're not paying any attention to them, but at least I don't get in fights.
I love to play Billiards, billiards is supposed to be a gentleman's game, but you don't see very many gentleman in bars. Just a bunch of drunks that that are sore losers and want to go outside and get their * beat down because you beat them at the game. Nope, it's never been my type of the place to hang out.
You did good buying your own pool table so you don't have to hang out in those seedy places anymore, I've owned several pool tables through the years and enjoyed the game
In the event of catastrophic events. Get under it for safety!
You must have lived in a real chittie part of the country to have bars like that.
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
one time we were doing some demo work on a house as part of the carpentry job. they had a 6' coin op Valley in the basement that got smoked from the fire. I said what are you going to do with that? they said bust it up and throw it away. I said no way! they said it's yours if you can get it out of here. I said bet. took it apart and took it home. it had a 1-piece 3/4" slate and crossbars going every which way inside, thing was solid as a tank. I think it was from the 40's or 50's.
had it at my house for a while but it made guest appearances at other houses too. one guy already had a pool table, now he had two; then I took it over to another guy's house for a while, and this knothead showed up one night who was known for stealing cars. at the time he had a Glock 17 on him that I would have guessed was stolen, he wanted to bet me my pool table for his gun in a game of pool. I wouldn't do it because I knew I was going to beat him and something told me things would get ugly collecting on the bet. so we played and I spanked his *. someone told me later that if he lost the bet he would have skipped the conversation and just shot me .
another time a bunch of us went on vacation to a lake out in the sandhills and took it with us. leveled the sand best we could, laid down a 5/8" plywood, put the table on that and leveled it with a 4' level. shoveled sand back on the plywood and we were playing pool on the beach. got quite a few funny looks from people driving by in their boats.
sold it for 200$.
I played on many Gold Crowns, never seen a Medalist. what's different about them? how thick is the slate? and is it 2-piece, 3-piece or what
need pics!
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Don't know the difference between a Medalist and a Gold Crown. This one was available, and after a few minutes on the internet machine, appeared to be very reasonably priced.
First try at pictures on the new format. Lets see if it works.
Brad Steele
My buddy had a professional grade pool table when we were growing up. Never did figure out how his parents managed to get it up into their upstairs game room. Thing was super solid. I think they opted to sell it with the house.
Never was any good at pool.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I am getting better. Used to think I was a lot better than I actually was, in that it was college bars and competition was youngsters like myself who may have had a beer or twelve.
Consign Furniture is a interesting place to wander around in once or twice a year. Every now and then they have some high end things for reasonable prices. OTOH, they have some things that seem to be over-priced as well. We bought a 12' x 5' solid wood dining room table from them last year for our summer house. Supposedly it was a piece that was commissioned by a guy at one of the nosebleed expensive golf communities nearby for north of $ 50K. Due to the size, it sat under consignment for quite a while, so we got it for around 10% of that. I personally don't believe it was ever $ 50K, but would believe $ 20K.
Brad Steele
https://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=163590
it was owned by some lesbians
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain