Sports
SEEN / Cue Tip Forget nine ball.
Jan. 6, 2008
Food
Publicist Bob Gibson may be reaching a little when he says billiards will replace sex in the ‘90s.
Nov. 6, 1990
In the United States the game is pool, in Britain it’s snooker, in France, le billard , and in Japan, yotsudama.
Jan. 19, 1988
The most popular sport on British television is not soccer, or golf or rugby or cricket but the once-lowly game of pool known as snooker.
June 12, 1985
Archives
If someone had asked me, when I was 16, to describe my dream house, I would have instantly said any place that surrounded a pool table.
July 14, 1990
Travel & Experiences
Local billiards parlors run the spectrum from old-time hole-in-the-wall spots to upscale places with full bar, private rooms, California cuisine and a 2,000-gallon shark tank: ALOHA FAMILY BILLIARDS 7311 Orangethorpe Ave., Buena Park. (714) 522-2611.
April 2, 1992
Pool is all about angles, spin, combinations and placement.
Oct. 9, 2003
You can’t get a cappuccino, or even a diet soda, at Santa Paula Billiards, an authentic dark-and-dingy pool hall sandwiched between La Playita Seafood and Bertha’s Hairstyling on Main Street.
June 9, 1994
In the two years since the Paul Newman-Tom Cruise film “The Color of Money” rekindled the American love for pool, a boom has been in progress that could put the warnings of Professor Harold Hill to rest once and for all.
Oct. 9, 1988
In 1911, a leading pool table manufacturer mounted an all-out publicity campaign to erase old-fashioned notions that the game attracted a less than wholesome crowd.
Sept. 6, 1992