Product Description
In the th century a poolroom was a horse race betting parlor. Pool tables were installed so the bettors could pass time between horse races. Billards, or pool, is the descendant of a game similar to croquet that was played in th-century Europe. Though we don’t know for sure, it is strongly suspected that billiards came to America with Dutch and English settlers. By the ‘s, skilled cabinet makers were crafting beautiful tables, though the equipment was, otherwise, quite primitive. Fifteen-ball pool came on the scene in the late ‘s and grew in popularity through the ‘s. Billiards was revived in with the release of the movie THE HUSTLER. It enjoyed another surge in the mid ‘s with the release of the movie sequel, COLOR OF MONEY. Since that time, there has been an evolution of the environs in which we find pool tables — they’re in restaurants and night clubs and sports bars, allowing pool to find a modern audience and new generations of enthusiasts. This marvelous design is layers of billiard balls in varying sizes for greater depth. They are scattered all over a “green felt” backdrop for this wonderful wrapping paper set which also includes a sheet of repeating racked balls as well as one of solid “green felt”.
