pool hall
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In a beautifully melancholy story, the author tells of finding a machine named Paragon in a pool hall and setting himself the target of achieving the highest score just short of rolling the machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
His father, Roberto, acquired it shortly after purchasing a pool hall called First Street Billiards in Boyle Heights.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
The movie also contains staged footage, including arguably cheesy Midwest-law-enforcement world building: Two detectives who help break the case are introduced while killing time in a pool hall.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
Businesses including a grocery store, barber shop and pool hall benefitted the Black community.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 5, 2023
They turned and went arguing back to the pool hall and I hurried out of the neighborhood.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
