New York gave us the Jeanette Lee, and Hard Times gave us Mary Avina. This pro-college turned out future billiard stars and billiard pros like Oscar Domingues, who now owns and runs the sister Hard Times, Sacramento, now the last temple of billiards left in California.
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Hard-times was a pro player's top college. Where else is this to happen?Įvery day up and coming players would come from all over, to lose to the best in tournaments, or to play in ridiculously high-stake money games. The best players came here not only from Los Angeles, not only from the state, no, they came from all over the world. Hard Times served pocket-billiards for several generations. First opened by the Markulis family and subsequently sold to the Thomason family. New York had Amsterdam Billiards, California, had Hard-times. Hard times was voted the Best pool room in America by Billiards Digest in 1996. That's right one went there to see the best players, like in any other major sports arena. Snooker tables, Heated Carom Tables, and 25 tough gold-crown 9-foot tables, and ten of them set impossibly tight for the best players in the world to compete on, complete with arena seating. What did they have? They had hardcore tables. They had no alcohol, no fancy sports TVs. No other pool-hall came close to the history and true pure love of billiards. Hard Times Billiards was southern California's hardcore pool players headquarters. Over 30 years of glorious billiard history has come to an end.
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