Word: billiards
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...these men, the sun is a much smaller white ball, and the planets number 15, not nine. They pass their time in Sully's, the Brighton Billiard Club, the Rack, Pockets and in the Boston Billiard Club--just a few of the urban oases which dot the metropolitan landscape of Boston. From unknown to acclaimed, from tiny capsules of kitsch to mammoth monsters of mahogany, these billiard halls are loaded with personality, and though they may be divided by money, by class and by style, they are united by the game, and the game never changes...
...Right now the nearest [recreational facility] is the Mac, which is a little distance," said Paul Hsu '00, who said he would like to see a billiard table in Loker...
...Dressler is only nine years old when he builds a display that makes the 5' cigars in his father's tobacco shop look more expensive. As a teenage bellhop, he boosts sales at a hotel concession. In 1894 at the age of 22, he opens the Metropolitan Lunchroom and Billiard Parlor, a winning concept that is expanded northward into the newly developing acreage bordering Central Park...
Jillian's Billiard Club. 145 Ipswich St., Boston. 437-0300. Pool, draft shuffleboard and ping pong. Football tournament on Monday nights...
...library, a drop-dead gorgeous Blues Sister reclines on a couch and smokes cigars with two Hollywood Producers. "I love a good cigar," she says with an insouciantly arched eyebrow. I must be trapped in the Clue boardgame. Someone is sure to turn up dead in the billiard room, soon, next to a candlestick. The DJ switches to Frank Sinatra. It's 5 am. Time to leave...