stevelomako
Verified Member
I nominate "Red Shoes Billiards"
as the official HOME of the Onepocket & Banks Hall of Fame.
They have been one of the only rooms in the country that keep having Onepocket and Banks tournaments consistently.
In addition to all the present Onepocket and Banks players they have, the Chicago area has been home to this slew of HOF members.
Onepocket:
Bugs, Artie, Minnesota Fats, Billy Incardonna, the Jansco brothers and Efren by proxy.
Banks:
The Beard, Cannonball, Piggy Banks, Bugs and Youngblood.
With more to come in each HOF.
Chicago is also home to Angel Levine who has been pouring her heart and soul into documenting on film this game and characters we all love.
I really can't think of a better place it could be.
If they would agree to be the home of the HOF and they have room we could have Steve Booth make a nice poster of each years class with a photo of each of that years inductees. Smaller ones could also be made to sell to the public. I'm sure there's a very lot of people that would like to have these for their own man caves as well as other pool rooms to hang up.
If you guys think this is a decent idea I'll start out and donate $100 to help make the posters along with an item of "Cornbread Reds" they could display if they want.
I'm sure we can get enough money together to fund this and help kick start selling smaller ones which would help Steve Booth to keep this site going and help with the banquet and whatever.
We have to try and pitch in together to keep this history going or I'm afraid it's going to dwindle away. I know my friends Freddy and Grady would agree and be behind it.
This coming from a Detroit guy too, that hasn't even been to Red Shoes...yet!
What do you guys think?
as the official HOME of the Onepocket & Banks Hall of Fame.
They have been one of the only rooms in the country that keep having Onepocket and Banks tournaments consistently.
In addition to all the present Onepocket and Banks players they have, the Chicago area has been home to this slew of HOF members.
Onepocket:
Bugs, Artie, Minnesota Fats, Billy Incardonna, the Jansco brothers and Efren by proxy.
Banks:
The Beard, Cannonball, Piggy Banks, Bugs and Youngblood.
With more to come in each HOF.
Chicago is also home to Angel Levine who has been pouring her heart and soul into documenting on film this game and characters we all love.
I really can't think of a better place it could be.
If they would agree to be the home of the HOF and they have room we could have Steve Booth make a nice poster of each years class with a photo of each of that years inductees. Smaller ones could also be made to sell to the public. I'm sure there's a very lot of people that would like to have these for their own man caves as well as other pool rooms to hang up.
If you guys think this is a decent idea I'll start out and donate $100 to help make the posters along with an item of "Cornbread Reds" they could display if they want.
I'm sure we can get enough money together to fund this and help kick start selling smaller ones which would help Steve Booth to keep this site going and help with the banquet and whatever.
We have to try and pitch in together to keep this history going or I'm afraid it's going to dwindle away. I know my friends Freddy and Grady would agree and be behind it.
This coming from a Detroit guy too, that hasn't even been to Red Shoes...yet!
What do you guys think?