Here we are in Tustin, CA delivering and installing an eight-foot Connelly slate pool table. This is one of our more popular American-made models called the San Carlos, which is usually sold with a carved leg. But this client chose to go with a tapered leg, Connelly offers more than six different leg styles. The […]
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Brunswick Pool Tables; What’s In A Name?
This particular pool table we’re setting up for some clients in Anaheim, CA. The family just relocated here from Texas and brought their Brunswick pool table with them. The couple was unaware of the sub-par quality of their 8′ slate pool table. The Mr. and I spoke a little about the reasons why he bought […]
The Phoenix Gets Its Game Back
This pro. eight-foot pool table named The Phoenix was manufactured by the now-defunct Beach Mfg. It was purchased new about 10 years ago and installed on carpeting in my client’s upstairs game room. The San Clemente, CA residents hired us to do a new flooring move so that the carpeting could be replaced throughout the […]
The Widowmaker Rears Its Ugly Head
Yes ladies and gentlemen, when we say widowmaker we mean it literally. A lovely family from Laguna Niguel, CA are the new owners of this 1970s pool table. I call it the widowmaker because of how heavy the slate is. It’s an eight-foot, one-piece slate pool table that when professionally disassembled, we’re still left with […]
Is Your Pool Table Unlevel?
Is your pool table unlevel? You may have a wedge thief in your midst. Here in the showroom, we have about a dozen or so pool tables set up on the floor for our customers to view and roll balls on before they purchase. Each pool table is set up and leveled so that the […]
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Billiards Back Breaker
Here is an antique Brunswick-Balke-Collender Royal billiard table that we were hired to move from an upstairs room to our client’s garage. This massive five by ten-foot pool table weighs in at an incredible 1600 pounds, almost as much as two standard size eight-foot pool tables. The Royal, circa 1928, features a three-piece slate bed. Each […]