Hobo Jungle

[E7]

The next post should be about repairing felt pool table covers!

[webenda]

Reparing a pool table felt after a botched Masse shot...=> https://youtu.be/7fbt-PLQAiA

[E7]

Wayne,

Great stuff! I imagine those repairs were as effective as the skill of the repairman.

I say repair"man" as in all the years I can recall, I never saw a female on the premises of the local pool hall. There were 2 billiard tables and 8 standard pocket billiard tables. I say standard because they were 4 1/2' x 9'. They sold cigars and tobacco, and once upon a time one could get their hair cut, shoes shined, and hat blocked. The establishment was owned by two brothers, one of which passed at 102 years of age.

As best I can recall, they fixed small tears by gluing them. I wasn't there to witness it, but there was a story that a fellow who ran a restaurant a couple doors down attempted to break a rack of balls, and split the brand new felt half the length of the table. The story has it that the guy who was re-felting the tables (who was elderly), chased him out the front door and down the main street! Never heard the result of that chase.

[2railjon]

Cool track vehicles

[2railjon]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Cool track vehicles
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Cool is right. Do you think this one was a Cadillac? That grill and the overall lines of it seem familiar from my earliest kidhood.

[rex desilets]

ca. 1946 Cadillac
http://www.bing.com/images/search?view= ... ajaxhist=0

[rogruth]

How about that number plate on the roof?
Canadian Pacific?

[rex desilets]

yep
Check out the badge on the door

[Rufus T. Firefly]

yep
Check out the badge on the door

Yup. Nice beaver.

[webenda]

Other side.

[robert.]

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[webenda]

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

Like that '29 Packard,

[Roy]

I'm looking at the 1939 Buick. Think what you could do with a portable turntable on your car. The custom bumper/cowcatcher/snowplow is kinda cool, too.