Name/Title
Print, PhotographicEntry/Object ID
1995.741.0003Description
Lou Nelson's Billiard Parlor and Bowling Alley under Jungquist Hardware.
Update - 2009: Black & white print on dark grey mat. Image of interior of billiard hall & bowling lane. On photo left is a pot belly wood stove with a coal bucket & spittoon on floor. Two pool tables with large legs are beyond stove. A cue rack hangs on back wall with numbers 1-10 in a triangle shape. On photo right is a bowling lane with a ball rolling toward pins at end, another sign with 1-10 in a triangle is above pins on wall. Three round back chairs are in foreground next to bowling balls in a raised wood ball return. Ball return is elevated from lane by a line of metal posts. Sign on wall reads: "Rules Pool - Billiards Billiards 25 cents per game 34 points no chips. Pool 12 1/2 cents per cue. Chips go with all pool games"
Written on back in pencil: "Obituary (1968) of Lou Nelson says he had a billiard Parlor under the Jungquist Hdw (which burned in 1906) at the present site is the corner of the Miller Block LJN"
Condition: Good. Mat has been cut down, print scratched, accretion, emulsion impacted, liquid spots, rubbed.Collection
Photograph Collection