Quote:
Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
 Interesting before/after GW.
I'd love to break into 50 and see what's left of that pool hall.
__ |
LOL
Your unique brand of tongue-in-cheek adventure mixed with sincere curiosity as I've learned now makes me laugh appreciatively, E.R.
I Grok it in fullness.
Got me thinking about Hollywood Billiards. I lived for awhile up on Bronson just above Franklin in the mid '80s. A couple of times I ventured into the billiard parlor in the basement of the The Hollywood & Western Building at 5500 Hollywood Blvd, being already documented here at NLA.
I was really impressed by the fancy woodwork framing a somewhat
casual (low-life) environment and I
knew from what I could see that it had deep history and better reputation but at that time I had no
real historical understanding being a relative newbie to L.A. I moved here in '79.
I wonder what's left of it after the squatters and then "re-modelers" had their way with it.
Check out this website just for kicks:
http://troymartin.com/billiards.html
This video of
Charles Bukowski was posted there (no doubt you've already seen it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xey8sffnFvk
... and then this even more-to-the-point video on the actual building from the same website:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHhO6bvnLZQ
http://troymartin.com/billiards.html