R L.
Jun 28, 2013
This place is hard to find if you don't know where it is. There is nothing much more than a neon OPEN sign, and barely anything of a front entrance. Even though the name is McCully Cue (I think?), I want to hesitate calling this place a pool hall, though there are 5 tables. There are other game machines lining the walls; and it seems most people come to play those. I recall pool table day rates are $3/hr or more; and more in the evening. The tables are medium fast, and the surface is hard - really sounds like rock on rock rolling sound.I think the house cues were decent; I remember being able to get some good draw sometimes, when I used them. Seems very strange to me that there is a Korean church on the 2nd floor of the building? The other customers who play the machines and hang out here really give this place a cave of thieves feeling. But they will leave you alone and just go about their own business. I think one of the cashiers is named Sandy, and she keeps everyone in line mama-san style. Even though the bathrooms are right in the open, you need a key to open the door. One time I was there - someone was bothering Sandy for the bathroom key. Finally she gets fed up and yells at everyone in the place: "It says return the key to the desk! Ok, you don't want to put the key back; NOBODY uses the bathroom!". And ala small keed time, one of the guys playing on a machine whispers to the guy next to him, "eh shh, I think she scolding us".
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