Jew Paul

[Grady]

Paul made his money from a Corningware type product that was brilliant in concept. It sold dirt cheap but was quality material. Salesmen, including "Bucktooth" and Bernie Schwartz (at one time maybe the best 9 ball player in the world) got rich. It was not unusual for one man to sell an entire truckload in one day.
Paul was staking me to play Bugs one day for $1,000 a game, when he remarked, "By the way, Grady, you keep everything you win."
A "Rack" habitue was sleeping on a couch by the water fountain: Paul said, "He has the room by the pool."
What Paul liked most to do in gambling matches is: come out a few games behind but win all the money.One day he's doing just that: betting $300 a game in the center and $8,000 a game on the side. BUT, his hapless opponent was running out of dough. Nonplussed, Paul "accidentally" dropped a couple of thousand on the floor so the guy could keep playing.
Paul's lastwife was a hatcheck girl at a posh restaurant. She wouldn't have anything to do with our hero, despite his best efforts and there was the age difference. She came to work one day and found a brand new corvette with a big red ribbon on it in her name.
"Cornbread" knew Paul best. He often accurately predicted when Paul was going to go off, and on these occasions, he usually lost 50 or a 100 thousand dollars.
Paul would pitch coins, make proposition bets with you. play you, in cases of guys like me, stake me on occasion. He had me on a $2,000 a game minimum. That's the least I could play for and people wonder why I like to bet.
Anytime Paul came into the Rack, something always happened. He is/was one of a kind and it's been my pleasure tp know him ,lo, these many years.

 

[NH Steve]

Thank you Grady. ...and he sure is a good candidate for our Lifetime Pool in Action award!

 

[Ktown]

Paul made his money from a Corningware type product that was brilliant in concept. It sold dirt cheap but was quality material. Salesmen, including "Bucktooth" and Bernie Schwartz (at one time maybe the best 9 ball player in the world) got rich. It was not unusual for one man to sell an entire truckload in one day.
Paul was staking me to play Bugs one day for $1,000 a game, when he remarked, "By the way, Grady, you keep everything you win."
A "Rack" habitue was sleeping on a couch by the water fountain: Paul said, "He has the room by the pool."
What Paul liked most to do in gambling matches is: come out a few games behind but win all the money.One day he's doing just that: betting $300 a game in the center and $8,000 a game on the side. BUT, his hapless opponent was running out of dough. Nonplussed, Paul "accidentally" dropped a couple of thousand on the floor so the guy could keep playing.
Paul's lastwife was a hatcheck girl at a posh restaurant. She wouldn't have anything to do with our hero, despite his best efforts and there was the age difference. She came to work one day and found a brand new corvette with a big red ribbon on it in her name.
"Cornbread" knew Paul best. He often accurately predicted when Paul was going to go off, and on these occasions, he usually lost 50 or a 100 thousand dollars.
Paul would pitch coins, make proposition bets with you. play you, in cases of guys like me, stake me on occasion. He had me on a $2,000 a game minimum. That's the least I could play for and people wonder why I like to bet.
Anytime Paul came into the Rack, something always happened. He is/was one of a kind and it's been my pleasure tp know him ,lo, these many years.

Good stuff Grady. Thanks for taking a little time to recount some of the happenings at The Rack.

Happy Holidays,
Daniel

 

[lll]

Thank you Grady. ...and he sure is a good candidate for our Lifetime Pool in Action award!

grady thanks for sharing. steve sounds like his picture(along with others) is in the dictionary(now wikipedia) under LIFETIME POOL IN ACTION

 

[fred bentivegna]

Blue shirt

Blue shirt

Grady, I'm trying to remember the story when Paul gave some guy, I think it was Art Blue Shirt, a nice piece of change, but he had to stay out of Detroit for a minimum of two years. Was that the whole story?

Beard

 

[Grady]

One other little thing, Freddie

One other little thing, Freddie

The deal was, Blueshirt got a one way ticket to anywhere in the world and he stayed gone at least two years Paul would send him the return ticket.

 

[frmn]

ronny wiseman told me that paul would get a spot flipping coins.in detroit outside 10 degrees he made his opponent go get the coins whilst he would keep his hands in his pockets.when you think of stuff like that its no wonder he had all the money.

 

[12squared]

Paul made his money from a Corningware type product that was brilliant in concept. It sold dirt cheap but was quality material. Salesmen, including "Bucktooth" and Bernie Schwartz (at one time maybe the best 9 ball player in the world) got rich. It was not unusual for one man to sell an entire truckload in one day.

While growing up in Oak Park, MI, I played out of the Cushion & Cue - a half mile from the Rack. I was friends w/Paul's son, Brian. Their were many people I knew traveling the countryside selling this cookware. I worked for a local guy a few times selling it in Chicago. It was kind of sweet, instead of going door to door, we passed out flyers on cars parked in industrial parking lots for 3 days telling them where we will be Thursday & Friday. Parked a big truck full of the stuff at the designated location (usually a gas station) and sold to those that came. Our second week we sold two truck loads. Although I didn't make much money because I was the hired help, it did finance my 1st trip to Vegas. Of course I blew everything...but it was great.

Thanks for the memories, Grady!

Dave

 

[jay helfert]

I started out on Danny Diliberto's crew. I could get 22 sets in my Chevy Camaro. I sold the sets for $18 and they cost me $9. Once I got in stroke I usually sold out by one or two in the afternoon. I was going door to door at businesses, not residences. So I was making $198 a day in cash in the early 70's. Pretty good money back then. I got pretty pumped up after several months of this and bought my first poolroom in Bakersfield. Never had a real job since.