Throughout the day, people play cards or leisurely shoot some stick in the poolroom. |
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He used to run a small gymnasium over a poolroom on Fourteenth Street, near Luchow's, and he still owns it. |
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A boy had taken some balls from the poolroom and was juggling then when they clashed in mid air. |
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As he got a little older and his play progressed he began playing in tournaments and joined a straight pool league at a local poolroom. |
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As a child of six he mentioned a sign on a poolroom window and the very mention upset his mother. |
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When he wanted to go further, he charmed his way into pickup lessons from the professionals who hung out in the local poolroom. |
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On the way he meets a friend and goes with him to a poolroom where he loses the money. |
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Plagued by dental trouble and outflanked by rapidly evolving jazz styles, he died in obscurity while working as a poolroom marker. |
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Why did he agree to meet him that day, in the dim rear of the poolroom? |
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Sharx's poolroom was created in a 16,000ft² space previously occupied by a hardware store in the first basement of the Faubourg Ste-Catherine office tower. |
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Every night St Lawrence Boulevard is lit up like a neon cake and used-up men stumble out of a hundred different flophouses to mix with rabbinical students and pimps and Trotskyites and poolroom sharks. |
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