Ask around, old timers probably remember the pool hall. I came back later when I was 16 and 17 and hustled pool there. This was an open-bay pool room with dozens of table where you played for 60 cents an hour. When I was a teen-ager in Fort Worth, I had an uncle who introduced me to Texas Recreation in downtown Fort Worth. He later went on to haunt Fort Worth's Fast Freddy's pool hall. Puckett, who was Fort Worth's most famous old school hustler. I'm sure that among the legends trudging up those stairs was none other than U.J. I write about Le Cue in Hustler Days.īig Daddy writes here about the old Texas Recreation, which, like so many of the great rooms, was located above a flight of stairs.

There's also Le Cue, which was an action hotbed during the 1960s. I've written a couple over the years, including one about Houston's Cue & Cushion, which was a favored spot for Jersey Red. Big Daddy also invites others to send in their own testimonials about old time pool halls that no longer exist. An old friend of mine, who goes variously by the names of 'Big Daddy' and 'Lucious Tibideaux,' sends in this great recollection of a famous pool hall in Fort Worth, Texas.