Top Reasons to Love Pool and Billiards

Like No Other Love (A Bad Rap)

The American Pool Hall was once an exclusive realm of men who behaved indecently. These individuals smoked cigars and drank beer while they growled and spit tobacco. Young truants cleaned the tables and floors and racked the balls for a new game, while they learned pool hustling and miscreant behavior.

Revived, Reborn (The New Chic)

From misbegotten days, gambling and brawling legends abound, building mystique. Odds are small you've heard of Ping-Pong hustlers getting fingers broken. Have you seen a shady-looking character thumb through $100 bills at a Chess club? Pool's seamy side and portraits of misspent youth are still an attraction for hustlers and rebels.

Despite its sour reputation, however, pool revived to become the pastime of the 1990's and then the 21st Century. Pool, now chic and the darling of the media, is exciting, fun and "in". Nearly every other TV or magazine ad shows people enjoying a cool time, playing America's hottest game.

From Pool rooms to Dream Centers

Pool rooms have become upscale pleasure centers where people mingle, playing and listening to pop music while eating croissants with jam and drinking Perrier. (The occasional truant needs to be chastised.)